fbi Now Hiring Detectives to Hunt Down Online Meme Thieves, Citing National Security Threat
meme historian analysis: In a classic case of government agility meeting digital chaos, the FBI has apparently declared war on the "crime" of reposting copyrighted memes without credit. The irony? The meme community—the same people who turned Pepe the Frog into a political symbol and gave us the "Distracted Boyfriend"—is now learning that the feds take their fair-use jokes very seriously. The real punchline is that while the FBI is chasing meme thieves, we can all agree the most wanted criminal is the person who uploads a 144p screenshot of a meme from 2011. It’s peak bureaucratic satire: a task force designed to protect intellectual property from the very platform that killed it.