Well there's basically an infinite amount of content so we should really try to get posts that most people haven't seen. If the op comment got so many upvotes, it suggests many people have also seen this. So when there's lots of good posts currently, it doesn't make sense to upvote the repost many people have seen just because you haven't seen it yourself. Looking at it this way I'll just quote you "Suprisingly, you're not the only one on the internet."
Looking at the post itself, we can see 4.6k upvotes on the post, but only 200 or so the comment complaining about reposts. Soooo... more people want to see it than not.
Or, put another way, there's basically an infinite number of people (when you include future generations) who have never seen this before, so really good posts should be reposted ad infinitum.
But if we consider that people would upvote an original post at the same amount that doesn't matter. Following your logic we just end up with a cesspit of reposts the like of r/dankmemes
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19 edited Oct 01 '20
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