Not much different from people not realizing that a cover song is a cover song and was actually written by somebody else. People conflate "where something originated from" and "where I first heard it from" pretty easily.
4chan is not as creative as people imagined to be, in fact they're honestly not that much clever than reddit; which is also much more influential than people like to admit. The problem is 4chan is so heavily mythologized in the internet as this omniscient-omnipotent boogeyman that gave them a rather outsized influence on culture.
It is, 4chan has been claiming to be the origin of random things as long as it's existed.
Not much different from people not realizing that a cover song is a cover song and was actually written by somebody else. People conflate "where something originated from" and "where I first heard it from" pretty easily.
4chan is not as creative as people imagined to be, in fact they're honestly not that much clever than reddit; which is also much more influential than people like to admit. The problem is 4chan is so heavily mythologized in the internet as this omniscient-omnipotent boogeyman that gave them a rather outsized influence on culture.
Ebaumsworld energy.