Dumb and dumber

Perhaps. I cannot conclude otherwise without evedence. However, if your hypothesis is true, there is one thing I can say conclusively: 9G "steals" from memefull.
http://m.funsubstance.com/fun/147561/a-recent-thread-inspired-this/

Of course. It has been well documented that 9G will take things from Reddit and post them with a time code earlier than the Reddit one, so it looks like the 9G one was the original. Also they removed poster names so every day they bump a few posts straight from Fresh to Trending and so you'll see posts with exactly 300 likes and no comments. Search up the silent 300

Conclusion: The internet is the internet and all the posts swim around while we surf from site to site.