Why are people doing it?
People find some funny stuff and want to be up the score by themselves. This is the fundamental root of reposting. This could also be flagged as stealing or plagiarism.
Taking a successful meme and utilizing it looks promising and works in a lot of cases. But I consider it as a crime. Not only stealing is wrong, it’s tricking people into something one is not responsible for. I‘d lose my sh*t if someone would steal my memes. Maybe it happened already somewhere.
Original content is a tough business
Right. It’s tough. It affords creativity and people who go through a new or fresh section to give the original content a chance or dooming it.
This is highly frustrating, but sometimes it’s just not seen by the right people. Especially on steemit it’s highly frustrating to see boring or stolen content going up like there’s no tomorrow.
And more importantly:
