The patois of misattribution is, often times, a rather fun deception -- to see who will share the meme. Things like "The internet is full of trolls" are captio

The patois of misattribution is, often times, a rather fun deception -- to see who will share the meme. Things like "The internet is full of trolls" are captioned to a photo of Abraham Lincoln, for example. Or, more recently, the phenomenon of attributing moving quotations to Taylor Swift, or Barack Obama, where the actual source was Adolph Hitler. In short, you're not wrong that these things occur, but in some cases, they probably occur as a means of exploiting our collective ignorance, and/or our willingness to share things that we think are attributable to someone we might idolize. Summed up in a Hitler quote (attributable to anyone): "How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."