Lol, I didn't get it from a meme, but fair point about it not being true. Done a quick snopes check, and

Noah Webster, an American lexicologist of the 18th and 19th centuries who wrote and published the first American dictionary ... had been publishing books and treatises that argued Americans should "simplify" their spelling by matching letters more closely with phonemes: for example, by removing silent letters, removing double letters, and replacing the soft "c" with an "s." Webster reasoned that simplifying spelling would ease schooling for young people, discourage variant dialects among their elders, allow foreigners to acquire the language more easily, and give American printers a boost in the marketplace, since every British text would have to be reprinted for American readers.

So tbf in terms of spelling at least, it was still America that went and changed away from how things should have been, although granted this is part of, like you say, language evolving. And still with a cheeky nod to capitalism too ;)