@Damaged  
Yes, transformative images often end up with joint ownership, so if one artist asks for a piece to be deleted we sometimes will speak with both artists because they may each have a copyright claim. This is also common with collaborative pieces that have someone who does the pencils, and then an inker and a colorist and a letterer. But, we are getting very far from the topic, and it’s impolite to do that on someone else’s image comments, so we really should take this to the forums or to PMs.

@Derpy Whooves  

 
It would need to be considered “transformative” to actually count for having a new artist tag added, right? IE: need a significant portion of the image itself edited/changed/redone completely.
 
Anyway, it is good to know they at least tried to give credit. Heck, I’ve been known to put the wrong version of an image in an upload before! (Thanks for fixing those, btw! I’m going to promise to try to attempt not to maybe do that again.)
 
@Apex Soundwave  
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Meme on!

@Derpy Whooves  
That is complicated x.x  
I’ll do my best to use proper tagging.

@Apex Soundwave  
Yes - on this site, at least, Image Macro is any image that has text added to it, especially if the text was added to make it memetic, and it implies Meme.
 
The tag “Image Macro” is differentiated from images with Captions, or images that have Dialog, but is reserved for images that are memetic or have jokes that were not a part of the original image.
 
“Meme”, on the other hand, can be any kind of image that is, or becomes, memetic, even if it has no text, and even if it is being used as it was originally creation - that is, with no additional text.
 
So, “Image Macros” are images with text on them, and it implies “Meme” but they might not be memes (for example, advertisements or announcements) and “Memes” may or may not be “Image Macros”. Sometimes “Memes” are things that happen over time, and images become memes, and other times people try to create memes.
 
To make the whole thing even MORE off-topic for this image, we also have Text which usually not for Image Macros but might also be Memes.
 
This particular rabbit hole is not necessarily deep, but it is twisty.
 
We actually receive reports against images that are uploaded without this tag, and they sometimes cause a lot of drama, so tagging “Image Macros” correctly becomes a bit of a problem from time to time. As you’ve seen, if they aren’t tagged correctly, it can cause trouble when people who like to avoid them suddenly start seeing them.

@Apex Soundwave  
here’s a good rule of thumb. Think of things that look like Memes from the early 2010s, or images such as this where and image is followed by a caption.

@Derpy Whooves  
So any image with text used to tell a joke is an image macro?

@Damaged  
@Apex Soundwave  
I can confirm this is true - the artist was originally tagged, but the tags slipped when the image was merged.
 
However, it really is important to tag images like this “Edit” because that shows others that the artist is not responsible for this version because it was made by someone else. Also the “Image Macro” is becoming more and more important, as it is how many people are filtering these kinds of uploads.
 
@Apex Soundwave  
This is just a quibble, but technically speaking, the artist retains all their rights. For example, only the artist can ask to have the image deleted, and if they ask for it to be deleted we don’t even check with the editor.

grand theft meme! go to jail for that….

@Dracolichess  

 
Well yeah. But you can say that you made it. But the artist received credit.

Is it possible to learn this power?

@Damaged  
I did, but then I reuploaded the image as a crop, and I guess the tags didn’t merge. I seriously did..

@Apex Soundwave  
At a guess? Posting someone’s art without tagging them as the artist’d be the most likely thing.
 
As a writer (and someone who can’t do visual art worth a damn) I take every care to not just assign credit for anything I use, but to secure permission to use it in the first place.
 
You obviously knew exactly where the art was from (a reverse search would have found it given the transparent version), so why didn’t you tag the artist?

Honestly I’m surprised I got this much hate for this one. I’ve put out much worse memes. In fact this meme USED to have impact font and an imgflip watermark.

That you think you can own a meme… LOL.

Or when you finally realize Meme’s make no sense! (LOL JK, I never understood em and to this day I dont XD)

>no personal tag for shitty meme uploads
 
 
Custom filter time.

@Apex Soundwave  

@Apex Soundwave  
They didn’t break rule 0 at all.

@Apex Soundwave  
Well next time just tag it better.

@Derpy Whooves  
Can you like, not be a jerk? Isn’t rule zero “no trolling?”

How ironic.
 

 
Also, in the future please be certain to tag these “Image Macro”, “Edit” and “Text”

Whoops, bad cropping job on my part. Lemme just reupload this.