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Hello, I'm on a throwaway account because I already confronted the reposter on my main account.

Backstory: I recently posted a meme, and it only got 50 upvotes. Someone stole my meme and and got over 20,000 upvotes.

I was literally heartbroken and cried. I told the reposter to give me credit, but he made fun of me instead. I know suing someone over a meme sounds silly, but it's not about the meme. it's about justice. I'm planning on contacting a lawyer, but I wanna get advice here to see what I can do. So what can I do? I wanna take this to a civil court. Will a judge take it?

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hey guys look at this totally original meme I am posting

This is why they made nfts. OP fucked up and didn’t protect himself through the power of block chain.

There is no way this isn't satire.

GallowBoob claims another victim.

I don’t think they understand what a meme is.

Karma is a bitch! I'm so glad Lemmy ditched the total user score, I was way too much stressed about it when using that site.

I mean, technically you can sue anyone for anything..... Whether it's going to be successful or not is a different question.

"I award judgment to you in the amount of eleventy-nillion fake internet points."

Redditor OP speaking to lawyer.

OP didn't have to say "literally". We already knew he was the type to sue over hurt feelings.

Is there a sovcit sub the OP can be referred to?
I'm sure they will find all the advice they'll ever need.

You're all are laughing now, but when that meme hits critical and is spread to every phone in the northern hemisphere, we'll need to find patient 0P for the cure.

I can understand the frustration but can't they just... Call them out in the thread? Link their original post?

Donate $100,000 to Trump and he will levy a 25% tariff on his ass.

Honestly, I would watch this show. Let's have an 80-year-old judge preside over the meme theft suit.

Karmacourt always looked like a lot of effort without much entertainment. I think it was put together by those kids that read and reenacted Roberts Rules of Order for fun. Aka the student government.

Why is this funny? Thinking on it, shouldn't copying someone's created content be actionable on the social platform at the very least?

We are getting so used to people stealing content that it is just become the rule of the land, but imagine creating a painting or writing a book then someone copies it and sells it claiming it's theirs.