Someone takes a photo and posts it online.

[maxleibman@beige.party]

Someone takes a photo and posts it online. They didn't photoshop something crazy into it, they didn't add any text, they didn't juxtapose it with another image to make a point. It's not a gif or screenshot or a piece of stock photography. It's just a photo they took.

That photo is not a "meme." Even if it's clever. Even if it's funny. It's their work.

Don't fuckin' repost it without credit. Don't pretend like you took it.

[maxleibman@beige.party]

"Who cares who gets the credit?" is a cop-out. The person who shares someone else's content under their own name obviously thinks credit matters. If they didn't want the credit for themselves, they would say where they got it from.