Bragging that memeing is what won the election is like governments bragging whose propaganda was more effective and citizens feeling pride.
I like shit posting as much as the next anon but in the end we're all just part of a giant hive mind shilling for a global race war.
Also, fake news is a made up term used to coax dumb people into believing news orgs have more power than they do. As a result, "alternative news" outlets quite literally do the very thing they blame major media outlets for doing: spinning the news to control future events by using mass hysteria.