Its kind of weird how everyone is complaining about copyright infringemet in memes now.

Memes are pretty inherently derrivative. They were always someone elses work. The picard face palm meme was obviously taken from star trek. All your base is obviously from that video game. Repurposing someone else's work with new meaning is basically what a meme is. Why do we suddenly care now?

I believe it's because AI hatred is quite trendy now. It's true though, memes were always copyright infringement; it's just that no one bothered to sue for it.