Below me isn't exactly true. It's not that 9gag and Facebook picked it up late, it's that some guy on 4chan decided, "hey lets blame this on 9gag haha so funny rite guise" and the rest of 4chan thought "THAT'S BLOODY BRILLIANT!" Now people from everywhere are blaming it on 9gag.

her family found out about the "i can count to potato" meme and are trying to stop it

Count to potato meme been around since like 2009, right?
Well 9gag picked it up 3 years late and that's how it got noticed.
By the tard's momma.
She's causing a hissy in the news saying how 9gag is an evil website.

Everyone's taking the opportunity to support her because they want 9gag taken down.
Finally their meme-theft is biting them in the ass.

the worst part is that funnyjunk invented the mem

*best

you know what they'd do if they found out it wasn't 9gag.

They won't.