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Meme theft has become the norm. This high schooler is trying to change that with ‘credit flexes’ from Elon Musk and Lil Nas X. Elon Musk

Meme theft has become the norm. This high schooler is trying to change that with ‘credit flexes’ from Elon Musk and Lil Nas X.

In the lawless chaos of the Instagram meme economy, one teenager has turned a good-faith effort to credit the people whose tweets he reposts into a meme in itself — the "credit flex." Chas Steinbrugge, an 18-year-old high school senior from Virginia, started…
bubmag
November 18, 2019