#anti plagiarism

[manikas-whims]

“i could care less if she's copying whoever”

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Imagine being so disgusting and supporting a literal thief. Imagine defending a stolen premise and straight up copied paragraphs over moral values.

BOTH THE AUTHORS (@/explorevenus and zombie ), WHOSE WORKS GOT STOLEN ARE GENUINELY HURT!

I don't know when fandom spaces became so rife with rude, insensitive and disrespectful people. But please fuck off from my blog if you are fine with plagiarism 🤬 and with @dollgxtz’s actions.

i didn't know LADS had such insensitive people in the fandom.

[antiplagiarism]

Plagiarist Update

Remember this?

I am delighted to inform everyone that Mrsfizzle/ Kaylie Night deleted everything. Her plagiarized story and everything else is gone. Based on the date she deleted her FFN profile and stories (Feb 12) her artist bestie must have told her about our exchange and that she'd been exposed.

Not only that, her artist bestie deleted all trace of her from their Tumblr- @ky-landfill including a non Boy Meets World art/rec. They also locked down their "Shaun" pic so you can't see reblogs. Me thinks they were definitely in cahoots in this nasty little game Kaylie Night was playing.

lmao

[thetruthisoutthereandbeyond]

Looking into Plagiarism: Reunification and MrsFizzle-a case of Boy Meets World Plagiarism or not? Part 4

It’s one thing to say Ashley is her version of a briefly mentioned character in the sequel show who she had to name and flesh out, but to state she is a canon character in the original show is an outright lie.

I cannot find any way to justify doing this.

Thankfully, this is just fanfiction, but for someone who promotes their published original books through their fanfiction accounts, it makes me question the authenticity of those books and makes Cassandra Claire spring to mind. If nothing else, it’s poor advertising and I would certainly pass if I saw the author’s name on anything just like I do for Claire.

Also, this comment is dated January of 2024 when the issue with MA was ongoing. According to MA’s SM posts at the same time, she was actively being harassed on Discord.

As for Fiona’s response: ???

She’s heard what exactly from other readers? There are honestly very few comments that mention Ashley outside of the curious ones like this.

The most glowing one came from her friend.

I struggled with this comment because it was better suited for Autumn in Philadelphia than Reunification since we did not see the relationship develop between Jon and Ashley (curiously, this friend has also read Flashbacks as they left a kudo on the work). Jon and Ashley went on typical dates, Jon lusted over Ashley, and everything else was about Shawn. Ashley had very little character development. I know she was a nurse, had a hard childhood, was previously engaged, and had a body that men, especially Jon, drooled over. More was said about her big boobs and nice ass that were clearly on Jon’s mind whenever she was around than was seen of this “healthy” friendship they had.

After reading the first part of Autumn in Philadelphia last night and about ten chapters of Flashbacks, this response of MrsFizzle’s is an obvious dig at Jon and Audrey’s relationship in MA’s story. It is also a blatant attempt to “prove” that Reunification is different from the only other story in the fandom with the same premise that somehow always publishes ahead of her.

MA has romance tagged; MrsFizzle does not.

According to her responses to comments, she doesn’t like romance. And yet Reunification takes an abrupt turn to heavily focus on Jon and Ashley’s dates, and the Europe trip is more about Ashley and Jon trying to impress her than Shawn, who the trip was for. The adoption storyline is almost completely sidelined until the epilogue.

This comment was also posted on December 5th, 2023, the same day an account with the same username flooded Reunification with seven comments on FFN to push the accusations down.

I feel like I need an Among Us graphic here because that’s sus.

Going back to the Fiona comment. She, I assume unintentionally, calls out MrsFizzle’s untruth about Ashley’s origins: “if I didn’t know better, I’d think she was in the show”.

Interestingly, there is no reply to this comment.

Curiouser and curiouser.

[reikomizuao3]

Calling out a Plagiarist *I HAVE SCREENSHOTS*

We do not support plagiarism on dis here tumblr, so I'm calling you out!!

The user Loves2Write on the website Archive of Our Own, in their story "The Snow Queen" has plagiarized paragraphs from the story "The Joy Of Vengeance" by dearly departed TheCuriousCalico. I have reported them, but I'm posting screenshots in case they scramble to cover it up

This is the original text:

This is the plagiarized text

As a writer, nothing pisses me off more than plagiarism, and any time I see it happen, I'm calling it out!!

[bitstitchbitch]

the main thing AI has proven is that the majority of people are perfectly okay with plagiarism as long as they can blame someone else for it

[fandom-hoarder]

Watching the 4 hr hbomberguy vid about plagiarism, to cap off a week where I was deciding what to do about a plagiarized wincest fic. Interesting juxtaposition. 😂

[antiplagiarism]

Looking into Plagiarism: Reunification and MrsFizzle-a case of Boy Meets World Plagiarism or not?

Also check out this Tumblr

[fourdramas]

Bill Ackman single-handedly taking on anti-plagiarism algorithms in academia on X 👀👀

[manikas-whims]

thats fucking wild. what other fics were stolen bc i checked zombies blog and i didnt find other fics. Unless thats just me xD i read both fics side by side and just yeah my jaw dropped it was 1:1 verbatim

I'm not sure because the person who informed didn't drop names of the other fics. But acc to them, they've stolen the premise for a Zayne and a Sylus fic from their other Leon fics.

As for His Watchful Eye, yeah..it's as you say, word for word copy-paste 😒

[antiplagiarism]

Funny how supporters of plagiarists always out themselves

A day later this has me cackling.

Best part about being blocked (and blocking back) is they have no idea I made their DM public and showed everyone on Tumblr who they (and their bestie) are.

You know what they should have done? Quietly blocked me. Then no one would know. Neither I would cause I can't be bothered to go back to a plagiarist supporter's page.

Now they've just made their bestie and themselves look really guilty. lmao

Please continue to reblog the OG post.

I'm also opening up asks.

If you are or have been the victim of plagiarism especially if that person is still active and you want everyone to know send me an ask and I'll check it out.

I do NOT support doxing of any kind, so asks with rl personal info will be deleted on sight. Thanks.

If you are a plagiarist supporter and send an abusive ask you will be blocked and reported. I ain't got time for you.

I think @amybeegood said it best in this post:

Just to make it abundantly clear: If you steal someone's fic and are happy to take the love and praise you didn't earn, then you certainly should have to bear the correspondingly inevitable reaction of the writer whose work you stole and their angry fans. There is no "both sides" to an argument like this. If you steal, you should not expect to be coddled once you realize how badly you effed up, especially when the theft is brazen, unapologetic, and continuous. Thieves and plagiarizers are NOT the victims, ever, period. If you pooh-pooh a writer's thievery and try to claim it was innocent or that the resultant reaction of the writer and/or fans is unfair, then you, too, should do some serious soul-searching.

[thetruthisoutthereandbeyond]

The Truth is Out There

Looking into Plagiarism: Reunification and MrsFizzle-a case of Boy Meets World Plagiarism or not?

Many of the complaints I found on FFN’s community for reporting plagiarism are typical copy/paste/change names stories.

But let’s look at these two points: 1) That is, both imitation (or outright copying) and failure to be truthful about that imitation are necessary attributes to call it plagiarism. 2) it is the lie (of commission or omission) about sourcing that makes it plagiarism.

The story I was most curious about was this claim against a story written by MrsFizzle in the Boy Meets World fandom. I started to reach out to the author who made the claim, Mercedes Aria, to ask about the details she mentioned in her Author’s Notes. Then I read her Tumblr post, Why Am I Blocked: A Tumblr Ask Answered and decided not to.

This is a case that goes beyond plagiarism and into harassment big time.

I started to examine this case by reading the stories in question, however, it will take me some time to do that. While MrsFizzle’s story is relatively short, Mercedes Aria’s series is not. It’s extensive and according to what she’s said on her Tumblr and in ANs, the stolen works span the series. I finished MrsFizzle’s story and have only gotten started on Mercedes Aria’s main story. But the similarities are there and obvious.

Given the length of Autumn in Philadelphia, I’ve been taking breaks to investigate the public claims against MrsFizzle who also goes by Kaylie Night and, according to her FFN profile, is a published author. However, it’s hard to fully investigate the claims since Mercedes Aria, though highly active, is unwilling to share the document detailing her case against MrsFizzle. She says on Tumblr and Reddit that she has been approached by people claiming to want to help her then demand to see the link.

MrsFizzle, on the other hand, appears inactive across all her sites since at least September 2024 except for one site with the last activity being December 12, 2024. As of this writing (January 2025) even her author’s website does not work.

What I can look into raises a lot of questions.

Specifically, the comments she left on Mercedes Aria’s stories. You can look at these comments yourself on Autumn in Philadelphia and Flashbacks (on AO3). MrsFizzle was very into the story and the OC Mercedes Aria wrote, however she also seemed terribly upset that story did not go the way she wanted and proceeded to go into detail about it even though she admitted to not reading the summary or tags and that she shouldn’t leave the comment at all. Mercedes Aria seemed upset to have caused any distress (MrsFizzle claims in her comment that she “cried for three hours. Fell asleep, slept through the night, woke up crying again” over the story not turning out the way she wanted. MA seemed extremely sweet and sincere, and the exchange that went on for a while over a couple of chapters ended agreeably.

I checked MrsFizzle’s Boy Meets World stories and could not find any comments by Mercedes Aria. Because I already see similarities in her story Reunification with Autumn in Philadelphia, I read the comments Reunification had. The comments are what sparked my curiosity because they are so strange.

[gayhenrycreel]

something i would like people to note is the difference between piracy and plagiarism.

plagiarism is taking someone elses work and claiming it as your own, often to make money off it.

piracy is illegally stealing something, without making or spending money. every single pirated copy of anything that ive ever had still credits the creators correctly. books still say who the author is and shows and movies still include the end credits.

people plagiarize because they are assholes.

people pirate because they are too poor to afford all these expensive streaming services, because such services can take media away at any time (piracy is a great way to make sure media does not become lost, google The Mysterious Benedict Society), or because the company that made it is awful and dont deserve money (disney, bbc, netflix, amazon).

both are legally stealing, but law and morality are not the same thing. piracy and plagiarism are very different, and should be treated as such.

[vexwerewolf]

If you do not support artists and authors in their fight against generative plagiarism, it will be your industry next.

[acatwithstockings]

Plagiarism does NOT hurt big companies!

Plagiarism isn't sticking it to the "big guys"

Plagiarism is NOT a brave stance against creative monopols.

I repeat Plagiarism is NOT a valid tool in the fight for better creative outputs.

Palworld is a prime example of creative bankruptcy and how people will fall for the marketing out of frustration with the original source. Having a remix of certain games as base concept is fine and is, in fact how many great games got their start HOWEVER never putting in the effort to make it something else than a remix speaks of laziness and disregard for the project as a whole.

Palworld didn't have to plagiarize Pokemon by just mashing some designs together and calling it a day. It was just for marketing.

Palworld didn't have to copy UI elements and progress systems from ark but it did because putting their own spin on things means work.

And most importantly Palworld didn't need to go the human trafficking route to keep the edgy spin of "Pokemon but with guns". That's just a testament to how little the devs behind it care and how ethically bankrupted they are.

Palworld is, just as their other games a passionless cash grab playing on what's popular!

People crying about how it's sticking it to Gamefreak and Nintendo are just delusional.

If you really want to 'hurt' the company, keep pirating and emulating their games, keep playing other titles that don't rely on blatantly plagiarizing Pokemon with their designs and stop engaging with the company and their titles publicly!

Plagiarism and lazily thrown together slop are not the way to go!

Also please stop spreading that they used AI for palworld. We simply don't know and can't prove it! It's enough that they obviously ripped meshes and plagiarized we don't need to blame ai for that. PLUS that the CEO supports Ai should be enough to not want to support the company we really don't need to accuse this specific product (and I am not calling it game, it was thought off and produced as a product and easy to pedal piece of content) of being produced with it, if we can't prove it conclusively.

Gonna say this as someone who has been critical of Game Freak both as a fan and as someone with a Pokémon SPIN for a while now:

Do not support Palworld.

The CEO of Pocket Pair, the game’s studio, openly supports AI and even made a game where making AI-generated art is its main mechanic.

Palworld is not Pocket Pair’s first instance of plagiarism, either. Their previous game, Craftopia, plagiarizes Breath of the Wild, whereas as its upcoming game, Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse, plagiarizes from independent developer Team Cherry’s game, Hollow Knight.

On top of stolen character models and concepts from fakemon artists, it’s already known that you can put Pals through what is basically slave labor BUT what’s been recently discovered is that the game allows you to capture and sell humans. This has been raising some red flags for black gamers looking into these mechanics, me included, considering this factors into the established slave labor system of Palworld.

TL;DR: I completely understand being tired of Game Freak and the Pokémon Company’s lack of polish over the years, but supporting something that is just as devoid of polish and even more devoid of ingenuity is not the way to make those criticisms clearer. This will only encourage more soullessness in the industry.

I implore you to support other creature collectors with some real passion behind them; I will reblog this post with recommendations shortly!

[marzipanandminutiae]

hey AI image blogs that turn replies off on your posts

you're not just plagiarists- you're cowardly plagiarists

if you don't think there's anything wrong with what you're doing, why not let people warn others on the post? or are you hoping nobody notices because, deep down, you DO know that you're full of shit and unwilling to get off your ass and actually create something yourself (or at least promote the work of real artists, not steal it)?

"well it's on my page! well it's in my URL!" shut up. you KNOW people reblog absentmindedly on here all the time, and they look at the notes before they look at OP's blog. don't give me that drivel

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

The piggyback

All the moments mike lied, he was plagiarizing off someone else. All the rest is the truth.

Which means it leaves us with: “El. Do you hear me? […] I’m sorry I don’t say it more. I… it’s not because I’m scared of you. I’m not. But I am scared that one day you’ll realize you don’t need me anymore. And I thought that if I said how I felt, it would somehow make that day hurt more. […] And it was so big it almost swallowed you whole. […] I can’t lose you. Okay? Do you hear me? I can’t lose you. You can do anything. You can fly (?? No she can’t), you can move mountains (can she?), I believe that. I really do. But right now, you just have to fight. Okay?”