I think it's actually fairly common. Maybe even almost every time, just the original being unknown or killed by someone sloppifying it before it ever spread. Turns out people who use ai correlate well with people who don't have ideas.

They'll just "make this meme but slightly better", thereby usually making it both worse and less believable. The cat looks so sad in this one, prob cause of the massive tumor on its left cheek.
While the book is probably a massive walking stereotype about cultural depiction of asia in the west, has text aligned with the camera not book, and is photorealistic.

I finally got around to starting my big explanation summary thing post:
https://reddthat.com/post/76302356

It'd be great if you could give some feedback. Don't feel the need to read any more than you'd have if I'd just dropped you that link, tho.