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a borrowed idea wearing your name like a stolen jacket that fits suspiciously well
means To share someone else's existing post or content again on a platform, typically passing it along to your own followers.
from A transparent compound of the prefix 're- (Latin, 'again, back') and 'post,' the latter from the verb meaning to display or publish, which itself traces to the old sense of fixing a notice to a post or pillar in a public place. The internet sense of 'post' as an online message dates to the bulletin-board era of early computing, and 'repost' followed naturally — first to correct or re-send a message, then, in the social-media age, to broadcast another's words as your own broadcast.
- laziest applause
- sharing without saying anything original
- viral engine
- most online spread is reposting, not creating
- meme decay
- each repost slightly degrades image quality
- credit erasure
- reposts routinely strip the original creator's name
- social proof
- a thing reposted enough feels true by repetition