What meme or anime started the bullshit idea that fae “steal” your name?  I see it on nearly all faery related memes now.  That’s not in any actual lore.It was fae wanting to KNOW your true name because knowing a thing’s true name gives you power over it.  You see it in things like the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin.  Seriously, what started this revisionist bullshit?

I think it got muddled with other mythology and stories, like how in Spirited Away stealing (part of) a person's name gives you control/ownership over them and takes part of their memories and powers away. There is a lot of mythology about names and in the age of information technology a lot of stuff gets mixed in with other stories and tales.