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Light is way too conceited to plagiarize. Unless it was to set up a (meta-level) trick of some kind, he would take such an action as an admission of his own inadequacy, which he would never accept.
Saying shitty reactionary nonsense is completely like him, though.
It's ambiguous, but the Death Note seems to work based on what the name-holder believes is "really" their name, which in most cases will be their legal name (though in the case of, like, a slave name, we'd expect the original name to be the one that works). Changing your legal name as a ploy wouldn't work, plus you can't legally change your name without there being a record and people who processed the paperwork having seen it and so on. In general, this is just a poor job riffing on the source material, and I say this in part because I've absolutely seen dumb, pandering meme shit that nonetheless captures Death Note's better aspects much more effectively.
The core joke here is "Hbomberguy could solve the Kira case AND intuit the mechanics of the death note" which I find very funny. But your critiques are fair.
And huh, I had always assumed that Light would have had to have find a trans person's deadname if it wasnt legally changed (for example).
I'm definitely giving an interpretation, to be clear, though there is some evidence for it. I think there ended up being an aside, for example, that L's given name was really considered to be "L" by the shinigami eyes (with his legal surname still being needed for the Death Note), though whether it was because he thought of himself as L or because others thought of him as L or something else is never explained.