You think they took that photo?
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Xotic56@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month agoI know right, just horrible to credit someone who created the content you’re viewing.
jaykrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Xotic56@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
You know what a meme is, right?
You usually use an image that already exists and add funny or reflective text to it to make it a meme.
They made the meme. By adding the text and putting their handle on it. No reason to go out of your way to remove that.
jaykrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yea but they don’t own the rights to the original image so they have no right putting their advertising on it.
Xotic56@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
You should show them by not engaging with memes at all!
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
slaps text over image grabbed from the internet
I are content creator.
Xotic56@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
So people that make memes aren’t worthy of credit?
You’re obviously someone who looks at memes, or you wouldn’t be in this comment section.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are you saying that if I go to imgflip and spend 10 seconds putting text on an image; that I can… No, that I deserve to put my watermark on it? That my meme is so sacred, and so important, that I should make sure to plug my Instagram on it? Look at me! Look at me! I made a funny everyone! Please acknowledge me!
If someone slaps their name on something that cost them next to zero time, effort, or creativity, then it’s not credit. It’s just a fucking ad.
Xotic56@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
If you’re talking about advertising their Instagram or whatever it is yes, I think they should be allowed to do that because its only as successful as the meme is.
The creativity of a memes text has always been the most important angle of it so if someone is good at that why would you want someone to go out of their way to remove any credit to them?
If someone is a twitch streamer playing a video game and has a clip circulating based off of something funny they said in game or a skilled play they make in the game they should be credited too and this isn’t really that different.
The text the person came up with obviously get engagement or it wouldn’t have ended up here. It isn’t like this person made this all with AI or whatever it takes a moderate amount of skill to make a meme engaging enough to end up on obscure sites like Lemmy so why not credit the funny thing the person came up with?
I’m not saying they deserve a fucking award or a parade, but simply not removing their name to give them credit isn’t asking too much. In fact, you’d have to spend 15 seconds or whatever to go out of your way to remove that.
Why?