You genuinely didn't copy someone else's wordplay so it's still fair game. Nobody'll think ya swiped non-viral 2009 content! Parrallel thought definitely happens.
Sometimes when I have an idea that's been done I go "Can I think of another way to use it? new context? or just add dog noises?"
lol I used to RT some of the tweets I found when I had an idea and someone else got to it first and some of those people must have been thinking “WTF??”
I did that too! It just felt polite. I'm not copying you here, I swear (fitting, in context though!). Like, "murder hairnets" someone had done that specific phrase before but not used it in the context I had, so I did my version but also RT'd theirs.
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Sometimes when I have an idea that's been done I go "Can I think of another way to use it? new context? or just add dog noises?"
Or it could be that I search entirely the wrong words because I am a fool.