When someone finds a funny meme on the internet and shares it to others without giving credit to the original creator of the image, or claims to be the creator of/own the meme.
Person 1:"Ay man, check out this meme I made!"
Person 2:"Cool."
In group chat:
Person 2:"Hey guys I made a new meme" *shows a meme made by person one*
Person 1:"But I made that meme, that's meme theft!"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)