I think that if we shame people for stealing memes, it will make them less creative and the memes will be worse.

Nobody is
just stealing the memes, they share the pictures they like, consistent with their taste, and with their creative captions. Sometimes captions make the meme.

I am for promoting copyright chaos, at least in the memes. Share everything you like and have as much fun as you can. Stop gatekeeping!
@distorted yes! the whole point of memes is that they're endlessly copied, sometimes modified, and then run into the ground until they're not funny anymore

then after a while it might come back and become funny again