FuckJerry’s Success Is Instagram’s Failure
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Instagram should at least attempt to do something about this issue other than relying on users to report them. All of these accounts have similar patterns on how they operate. They shouldn't be too difficult to find.
I don't disagree that FuckJerry's behavior is pretty shady, but cmon... the entire meme community is pretty much built on reposts. Isn't that the whole point of sharing stuff on social media. Why are people acting so entitled? Seems to me they just saw the huge revenue pie and want a piece.
How about the internet? Once you publicly share something on the world wide web, you have crossed that line because anyone can then simply copy and paste. It's naive to expect otherwise.
Digital things are infinitely reproducible and cost nothing to copy and paste.
When someone copies and pastes something you shared with the entire world on the internet, you still have that thing.
Copy & pasting digital things != stealing physical things.
FuckJerry is just the perfect shitstorm of bad optics. They put out an image of douche-bro behavior (I mean, look at their name) and one of their biggest claims to infamy is being the marketing team behind Fyre fest. They're whole response to every scandal has been "you're a jealous idiot, and our legal team is more powerful than yours so eat shit".
What we're seeing right now is the community holding someone accountable. You can argue fairness, or free speech til the cows come home on both sides, but in the end the ball is rolling and we just have to wait and see where it stops.
Also >>"Why are people acting so entitled? Seems to me they just saw the huge revenue pie and want a piece."
Yes. Why would these entitled CONTENT CREATORS want to be compensated by people using their content for commercial gains?! What a bunch of entitled babies. They should be happy for the exposure. /s
Actually pursuing that complaint can be difficult and expensive, though, which is what serial plagiarists like FJ depend on.
That's what makes these accounts so uniquely infuriating. They're not accidentally omitting credit out of laziness or ignorance. They do extra work to make sure the original creator gets cut out of the loop.
Maybe it would be worthwhile creating a service that did this. Although I think it is probably more like a feature of another service.
Aren’t those who are offended kinda missing the point?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
[..]A meme (/miːm/ MEEM[1][2][3]) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture—often with the aim of conveying a particular phenomenon, theme, or meaning represented by the meme.[4] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.[5]
Proponents theorize that memes are a viral phenomenon that may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance, each of which influences a meme's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behavior that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.[6][..]
It's dismaying that they aren't standing behind that.
Instead, file a DMCA takedown notice with Instagram referencing the stolen work. They're required by law to comply and take it down. I expect that most content thieves won't see it as worth it to contest the takedown and open themselves up to legal liability.