The same banned meme keeps getting reposted with worse pixelation

There's this one political meme that gets taken down everywhere... a simple cartoon about a hand puppet. Every time I see it come back the quality is worse like someone screenshot a screenshot 20 times. I pointed out the original artist to a guy in a forum last week and he said it doesn't matter because the message is what counts. But if we're talking about free speech shouldn't we also care about the creator getting credited? Has anyone else noticed this pattern with other banned memes?

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iris_rivera4420d ago

Yeah when you said "the original creator saw their work turn into a blurry mess and just sighed" that really hits. It's like how people treat anything that becomes popular, not just memes. I've seen this with recipes and DIY projects too. Someone posts a clear step by step and by the time it gets shared fifty times on Facebook the instructions are cut off and the photo is so grainy you can't tell what you're looking at. Nobody bothers to check the source anymore. It feels like we've all just accepted that stuff gets degraded and that's normal now. But the original person who made it still put time into it even if they don't get credit anymore.

wren_carr20d ago

Gave up trying to find the original of a meme once and ended up downloading a version so pixelated it looked like a cubist painting. At that point the message was just "jpeg compression is a crime." But honestly I get it, crediting the artist feels like shouting into a void when the whole thing is already being shared by ten different accounts with ten different watermarks. I think the worst part is knowing somewhere out there the original creator saw their work turn into a blurry mess and just sighed.