I recently made a meme that blew up on reddit. My friend showed it to me today posted by an Instagram meme account. I obviously got mad as no credit was given. I dmed this meme accounts owner and as a joke which I am pretty sure it was obv I said I'll contact Instagram and I'll take legal actions against you. I asked for some sort of credit for the meme he agreed and posted it on their Instagram story which has now caused me to get a lot of hate in to my Instagram dms. They also posted dms from other people defending my point of view. I heard they got harassed as well. I feel like an asshole for causing this harassment towards these people and idk if he believed actually that I'll take legal actions. 