I bet there’s a tiny, specialist Academic discussion board somewhere with a handful of members who sit around adjusting their leather-elbowed tweed jackets and congratulate themselves for having the “cite?” meme all to themselves, FWIW. 
Didn’t “Gotcha Ya” originate here, and has spread beyond?
I’m not sure. The earliest I can find for “Gotcha Ya” is January 12, 2000 on the Usenet group alt.rasap. When was “Gotcha Ya” first employed here?
Also the goat/sheep thing is not original to us. I know it had been floating around rec.humor.oracle.d during the ninties whenever a new priest had been selected. Before that, it had been seen in “Revenge of the Nerds.”
I think Skitt’s Law is just a rehashnig* of Muphry’s Law (1992)
- This post Muphry compliant.
I hereby propose the simpler version, or Malthus’ Law: “There are no original internet memes or laws - not even this one”. 
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
2001, apparently.
You forgot the 0.5 multiplier. Or the integer divisor of 2.
Having used it in a post the other day, I realized that I’m the only one here that I’ve seen who agrees with a quote from an earlier post with a single-word “sentence” thusly:
The word “this” is an even shorter version of QFT or I totally agree somewhere on the internet that I’ve spent time, in order to absorb it, but it wasn’t here and I don’t know where it was!
Shift-T-h-i-s-period
Shift-Q-F-T
How can this be?
I meant it’s, gosh, there’s not a term to apply to this, but when you read QFT, your brain automatically parses it out as “quoted for truth” (once you know what it means, of course) whereas your brain parses “this” as, well, “this.” So while yes, it is more to type, it’s contextually shorter, while conveying the same general idea, is what I think I’m getting at.