Author here. It was the first one. (Not to take away from your point - but i will die shameful if anyone thinks I "spent time prompting.")

Fair enough. It's always hard to say. Some people do seem to spend a lot of time prompting for images trying to get the perfect one, while others just prompt once and grab the first result.

Either way though, I love your crappy mspaint job on that image and I agree wholeheartedly with the point you were trying to make with it. I think people overall do respond more positively to crappy ms paint memes than the AI gen memes. It's worth thinking about why that is