I understand the concept of, “hey, look at this cool thing I found”, but if people want to do that, they can easily link to the source. However we live in a time where people will post pictures online they had no part in producing and aren’t of celebrities of any kind and bask in a glory. You even get some people posting pictures pretending its their spouse. I just don’t get why this is a thing.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Because people want to get that rush of being “famous” for a few minutes but they don’t actually want to put any effort into doing something themselves. That or they think they’re going to somehow make money off someone else’s work, also because they don’t actually want to put any effort into it