#the plagiarism is gone now but I have screenshots

[shiny-jr]

Dear author, I’m so sorry that someone plagiarised your work especially since you work so hard on your stories 💔😞

We want to help the plagiarised book get taken down so can you please share the link?

If enough people report, the fanfiction site admins will finally listen and take down the plagiarised book, instead of the plagiarism claim being buried.

I hope this issue gets resolved quickly and I hope you have a better day.

UPDATE! Based on this and that and also this.

Thank you, anon. I appreciate your words, but as I stated in one of my previous posts, Wattpad reports are finicky. I believe at this point, we're at day thirteen of dealing with this plagiarizer and day four of it being public and yet despite it all, the plagiarizer has still yet to budge.

So, I thought I'd give another update and give the information we discovered in our findings. As to what we know is copied and from who. Keep in mind, one of these four copies stories has already been taken down and done with. I'll specify which in a moment.

Before I proceed, if you happen to be one of the original writers mentioned in this post and you want your portion removed from this post for whatever reason, let me know. I do not want to upset anyone, except the plagiarizer. At this point in time, I care little for their feelings on the matter when they've had plenty of time to make things right.

The plagiarizer: Kristynaka1

FIRST.

Obviously, the first story that was discovered was mine, with all the information linked in the posts at the very top. I was made aware of this by the inbox from a kind reader. Ever since then, I've been dealing with this plagiarizer.

My mutuals and I found it weird that somehow, the plagiarizer had relatively good grammar with few mistakes in the story. Yet every little note or message they sent, had many spelling mistakes and was sometimes difficult to read. It was inconsistent and strange, and we couldn't make sense of it until we had a theory which some readers in the comments here have already suggested. We theorize that the plagiarizer began to use AI.

Of course, we can't prove this but how else would a user who can't format and type proper messages be able to write whole paragraphs that are actually legible and understandable?

ChatGPT was available to the public sometime in 2022. Before 2022, many of their "stories" were copy and pastes from Tumblr. After 2022, there were differences in the copied stories that made it harder to find the original story and connect it to the original writer. Differences in writing that I doubt the plagiarizer wrote themselves if we go by their messages like:

So yeah. Onto the evidence.

SECOND.

After a few days, one of my mutuals began to suggest searching for the origins of other stories as they doubted any of the posts belonged to the plagiarizer. Low and behold, we found three others. The first of which belonged to @monst and their post. Just by comparing the first paragraph was enough to confirm that.

I won't go into too much detail as the links pretty much say all you need when you actually look at the evidence.

THIRD.

Not even an hour later, we found the second copied story from that oneshot book. Thankfully, there were only two stories there, so there aren't any more copied parts from that series they claim is theirs. The original is @ppsycho and their post. This one again looks like a direct copy, even the image is the same.

FOURTH.

This is the one that was already deleted, thankfully. So there is not many good screenshots I can present, except one before it was gone. So the original writer is @mint-yooxgi and their post.

Here is the only screenshot I have of the wattpad version, just to showcase that it did in fact exist, and it was copied.

So yeah, that's everything for now. If you check out the plagiarizer's profile and recognize the other stories I did not name, please let me know. We thought we found one of them on Quotev, but it wasn't.

Please continue commenting discouragements and reporting the account!

I think I'll leave this off with something I typed last night in a chat:

In whatever way this ends, know that it will end badly for the plagiarizer. They can choose to ignore, but that won't make everything go away. People will remember, I will remember. If they go radio silent and try to forget everything but keep the stories up, comments will still be there. If they try to delete the comments, new comments will just be made. The comments will serve as warnings to others that might stumble across their account, and it will immediately make them click off the account or story because no one wants to read a plagiarized story. The account we see now will just be empty of real readers, so it will remain a miserable little place where each comment will serve as a reminder as to why plagiarism is bad.

Even if they do decide to delete and make another account yet again, whether they decide to copy the same stories they did before or pick entirely new writers to prey upon, it doesn't matter. Readers will either recognize them from before or new readers will notice the plagiarism taking place. It doesn't matter what they do. They will be found and dealt with in some way, shape, or form.

I hope those two or so years of small internet fame were worth it while they lasted.

[atypical-artisan]

First reddit and now wattpad... what's up with orange websites and stealing?

[stolentrekblr]

Some FAQs

"I feel compelled to tell you I am pleased/angry/don't care about this!!!" I am not telling anyone how they should feel about this. While my blog title is a touch incendiary, I am tracking down the posts I find in the wild and tracing them back to their original poster. It bugs me when screenshots get reuploaded here when the original posts still exist, so I'm doing my best to track them down for you. I also wanted other people to know when their posts/art/edits/words officially escaped containment. While I'm personally irked by the behavior of taking without credit, that doesn't mean you have to be. Your response is valid :)

"Why only Star Trek?" Focusing on Star Trek alone is already a massive undertaking. If I could do more, I might, but I am most active in the Star Trek Tumblr sphere and more capable of identifying and tracking down the original post.

"Can I send you something I found/my own post that was reuploaded?" Please do! I am but one person with a questionable attention span, and this is an ambitious undertaking. Tumblr may be the incubator of the Internet, but its search function makes finding things challenging. There is no way to automate this process that I know of.

"What's your issue with this particular Data page?" Initially, I didn't have a problem with this page. My Facebook friend had sent me a couple memes from it, so I liked the page and moved on. I assumed the page runner was just another Trekkie who made memes and reposted art. As time passed, I noticed that many of the memes that lacked credit were coming from Tumblr and from mutuals who had no idea their words/edits/art had migrated off the platform. I noticed the page was uploading peoples' edits without credit and taking captions verbatim, and that bothered me personally. Two of my posts were lifted in a row, and I had made a couple posts on my main ( @thresholdbb ) about it. It eventually hit a point that I decided this endeavor needed its own dedicated space.

Maybe it's because I spent my entire professional career in education, repeatedly citing all of my sources and teaching students that plagiarism is wrong. Maybe it's because the page runner repeatedly solicits money via subscribers, not to mention the "Gift" button that appears in the corner of every stolen picture. It seems disingenuous to present content as your own and also profit from it. On some level, I think the page runner knows what they're doing is at the very least morally questionable/dishonest/wrong, since they do not like or reblog any of the posts they re-upload to their page. (Believe me, I spent a long time trying to track them down before starting this blog.) Far as I can tell, they do not make original posts here, but I cannot confirm this. They make a few original posts on their Facebook pages (I think there's something like 7 that all have the same MO), but they are mostly selfies soliciting money. Like do what you need to do to support your family or whatever, but stealing from people in this way is not cool IMHO.

While it is the nature of meme culture to spread them around without credit, these posts are regularly being taken from a community in which I actively participate.

"Why would they watermark my post?" From what I can gather, straight up screenshots can get nuked because they go against some term of service, but I'm not a super active poster on Facebook and cannot confirm.

"What's your goal with all this?"

Awareness - now you know if a post has broken containment, if your art has been reposted, if your edit has gone uncredited, and where the original post is so you can reblog and add your own tags for OP to read. I'll often see a post in the wild and want to add my comments here but then can't find it, so I'm doing that legwork

"Can I reblog the post and delete your screenshot from it?" Please do! Let the original post be free!

"What's your Facebook name?" Must really suck when someone is anonymously taking screenshots of your posts, uploading them somewhere else, and you don't have a say about any of it. On that note, what's your Tumblr name?

Overall, the Trek community has a lot of good will, but in my experience that typically comes with a strong sense of justice. I'm just out here spreading the word

[pitofsecrets]

The BBC's The Ministry of Time

It's clear that it's a rip-off of the Spanisht TV series "El ministerio del tiempo."

Like what do you mean the premise it's that a secret branch of the government reclutes historical figures to carry out its missions and there is romance between two of its agents?

Like,

You could have made it a little less obvious.

YOU COULD HAVE CHANGED THE BLOODY TITLE.

Did you seriously think nobody was going to notice!?

That the Spaniards don't use the internet or fucking twitter!?

Once again the British doing what they do best: Stealing from another culture.

I'm so mad I can't even type anymore.

And before any of you start, yes I checked the dates.

The book that the BBC is adapting came out or comes out this year 2024.

But the script was finished in 2023

The Spanish series came out in 2015.

Do you know what's funny?

The tweet that announced the BBC series had a community note calling out the plagiarism.

Now it's gone.

I swear to God, everytime I think that the British couldn't be worse they prove me wrong.

EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Edit: To any of you who think that it's possible that the BBC or the author may have already bought the rights of the original TV series:

They didn't.

Edit 2: So apparently the book is in Goodreads and some early readers who read it called out the obvious plagiarism of the Spanish TV series, some even saying that it was 'ridiculous'.

But it seems now that all of those reviews are 'disappearing'. Now the only evidence there is that even readers and people who have a Goodreads account knew about it are the screenshots on Twitter.

Also 'El Ministerio del Tiempo' was available for a while in Netflix UK.

[pastafossa]

The plagiarist, who has a long tumblr page full of either posts reblogged by me AND ask responses stealing more of TRT (think the psychic animals inside the thread), has seemingly blocked me there. So I’ve sent an ultimatum to their side blog. I’m making the post here, too, since I know they’re active right now - otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to block me so quickly.

Here’s how this works:

Take the fic down, though hopefully AO3′s going to do that anyway since I sent in an abuse report. 

Delete all of the plagiarized content off your blog, content that you’ve stolen from me, content you’re claiming as your own - the psychic animals, the discussions about Ciro and Eli, how her abilities work, all of it.

Reply to  the message I sent to your side blog, and apologize.

Do that, and I won’t make the callout post with screenshots of your fic, your username, and your blog containing all of the things you’ve stolen from me. I’ve already begun messaging the authors you’ve reblogged, so that they can protect their work, too. The Daredevil circle on tumblr is not huge, and I’m not about to let my friends have their work stolen.

I don’t want to make a callout post, let’s be clear. This is not how I wanted to spend hours of my fucking night. What I wanted was to spend my night editing the new chapter for tomorrow. It’s clear you read TRT if you’ve gone far enough to steal Ciro and Eli, to add in the psychic animals from way, WAY in the future. You’ve read through hundreds of thousands of words, you’ve read my notes. And you need to learn a very important lesson:

Do not shit where you eat.

I have no idea how you could take something that I made, that you clearly enjoyed, and do this. I really, really don’t. I’ve spent years working on this fic, pouring sweat, blood, and literal tears into it. I’ve worked so hard on TRT, and you have absolutely zero right to snatch up these pieces.

I know you’re online right now. I know you’re likely reading this. For all I fucking know, you’re going to be reading TRT’s next chapter, and I can’t stop you since AO3 has yet to perfect a block function. That should be enough for you.

Take your shit down.

[luvdsc]

while she did plagiarize, she didn’t gaslight you. stop throwing that word around.

hello, here’s a refresher for what “gaslight” means:

and here is what jenovious messaged me throughout the entire ordeal. I have cut it down to the specific messages, but if you take a look at my original post, you can see the full conversation. I really questioned myself in the beginning, like maybe I was wrong about this and it was just a coincidence because we saw the same video. but then she sent me that fake text, and that’s when I started to believe that she was actually lying to me. additionally, I didn’t know she was jensrose at the beginning until I searched through her blog after she sent me the fake text. when I discovered jenovious and jensrose were the same person, I couldn’t believe it. I was truly second guessing everything in this whole situation.

“I had no idea they were from your post.”

“i’ve read your fics, yes, mainly pussy blocked and sweeter than honey, but that’s as far as i’ve gone.”

she claims she only read two fics then. let’s review the following messages from her now, shall we? I have gotten full permission from lebrookestore and two who wish to remain anonymous to post these.

the first row of screenshots is for sweeter than honey, and that checks out. likewise, the second column in the second screenshot compilation is for pussy blocked, and that also checks out.

but let’s take a look at the first column in the second screenshot compilation. she acknowledges the dumbing down of love (slightly cropped out, but still legible) and recs let’s play pretend, i dare you, a-side, b-side, and the not clickbait series. in the third screenshot photo, she lists the dumbing down of love, all four of my not clickbait fics, and resting grinch face.

I counted 10 fics there. That does not equal only 2 fics. the overall 12 fics she admitted to knowing / reading does not equal 2 fics. Here’s a step by step calculation of that for clarity purposes:

she also recced anything written by me, which is a bit silly to do if she only read two fics of mine because you shouldn’t be blindly reccing fics without checking them out first, right? moreover, why would she call me as “my fave author” and “the best nct writer ever” if she only read two of my fics?

once again, I would like to say: if this is how you treat someone you had called one of your favorite writers, then I hope I don’t ever see how you treat the writers whom you don’t favor.

and the final screenshot in the second screenshot compilation is of her saying she does not have a phone, so she would not have been able to use any messaging app to text people.

so no, she did gaslight me. multiple times.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Wait what's wrong with the sunset lesbian flag?

[ID: screenshot of an ask from an anonymous user. it says “Hello, newly discovered lesbian here, I don’t know much about the lesbian pride flags or the history behind them. Could you explain what the sunset lesbian flag is and why it’s not necessarily the best flag to use? I’ve gone back in your history but can’t find an actual picture of the flag and can’t get a visual idea in my head to know what you’re talking about. Thanks!” /end ID]

someday i'll make a post about this that i can just link people to when they ask me about this anyway. i'm glad you asked and are willing to learn, that's super cool! also congrats on the being gay anon that's fun the sunset flag is this one:

[ID: the "sunset" lesbian flag. it has seven stripes, three on the top in varying shades of orange, a white one in the middle, and three in varying shades of pink on the bottom.]

i think it's the most popular lesbian flag atm and most of the people using it have no idea of its history, which is understandable. so let's get into it!

first of all, the whole entire reason we started looking for a new flag as a community is because we wanted to ditch the lipstick flag (the old all-pink one you may have seen used up until a few years ago). this flag had a lot of problems, but the short version is: it only represented femme lesbians specifically and the creator was a racist, biphobic, plagiarizing dirtbag. so you can understand why we wanted to leave it behind!

...and then we somehow ended up with a flag that just color shifted the top part to orange? the entire point of getting a new flag has been basically defeated, because we haven't actually left the lipstick flag behind. we need a more visibly different flag, or that flag and its creator still have a massive influence on our community.

secondly, the reason this new flag is so popular now is due in large part to (mostly exclusionist) lesbians going around harassing creators to use it, calling them lesbophobes for not immediately making merch for it, or saying they wanted to "replace lesbians with ace/aros" if they made ace/aro pride merch but not this specific flag. (source: i was there, gandalf) 

this sucks because, first of all, it's nobody's business what a creator makes merch for, second of all, this flag in particular? sucks to make merch for. yes, even the "simplified" one. it requires different tones of the same orange and pink colors, which mean more fabric costs that can't easily be repurposed for other things and can be difficult to find esp. if you're shopping at smaller stores or making knitted things. add on to that that a lot of creators have said that this flag just... doesn't sell well. the people who force them to make it then don't buy it, so they have all this stock or work put into a design that then makes them no money at all. how is that fair?

i won't talk about the flag's creator bc frankly i haven't kept up with her. all i will say is that this flag was immediately claimed and used by transphobes, aphobes, exclusionists, and people who felt comfortable attacking people over not using their favorite Biphobia Racism Pride Flag Rebranded. not exactly something i want to identify with, yes?

there are plenty of other options! i personally favor the "lesbian flag for all" (it's based on a sappho poem! it's explicitly inclusive! it's so pretty and has clean, distinct colors!)

[ID: the "lesbian flag for all." it has four evenly-sized stripes from top to bottom: purple, pink, yellow, and green. the stripes are all thick and vibrantly colored.]

but there are a ton more and i'm not gonna tell you you have to use this one. just. stop promoting the sunset flag. please? this has been your local tired lesbian.

also if you’ve read this far, please please reblog this post so more people see it. i at least want people to be aware of this flag’s history and connotations.

[tsukuyomiland]

Someone:

-Abuse my affection by making me an emotional slave that had to be ready to talk to them at the time they said or otherwise get guilt-tripped ("I feel so alone" "you said you would be here").

-I had to be ready to comfort them at any time, with situations like me having my baby niece crying in my arms and they DEMANDING my total attention even knowing it, or demanding drawings to make them feel better.

-Lies to me. Blatantly.

-Makes me feel miserable filling my life with constant negativity. I wasn't allowed to express any kind of personal happiness publicly because it "hurt their feelings". Me drawing better than them also hurt them, I felt compelled to pretend I was less skilled.

-Contacts IRL friends of mine and tell them my now husband is "manipulating me". (He was in fact saving me of their toxic influence).

-Steals my art. Lies to me when I demand my art to be removed. Sends me a broken link to a blog. Later I find out they only changed the username and I find my art again used without my permission.

-Steals concepts and characters I created. Lies blatantly about their creation to erase my contribution and real origin.

-Erases my name from collabs.

-Writes a journal on Deviant Art full of blatant lies. When I call out, they say my screenshots are fake.

-Copies drawings from me (and other artists). They get comments like "nice pose", they only say thank you without mention it was referenced-copied.

-I demand those drawings to be deleted or at least, get credited. I'm ignored. The drawings are still there.

-Impersonates me, takes my username and posts stuff with the intention of discredit me. Some allude to things like "how to make fake screenshots" showing that they were aware of their activity and were ready to use that argument against me even knowing it would be false, showing their bad faith.

-Sends me repeated insults, some as tasteless as calling my newborn son "broken condom". Allusions to the fascist dictatorship my country suffered. Calling me lazy for not drawing my comic... The day after I gave birth. And much more. I have screenshots of all of them, so I have proof.

-Accusations of plagiarism. I only took the characters I made and put them in a completely different context. Telling my story is a copy of theirs is like saying Gone with the Wind is a copy of Jurassic Park.

-Accused me of being friends with a person with who I exchanged barely a couple conversations and with which I have no connection at all.

Me:

-Decided to cut a friendship after months of emotional suffering that was affecting my relationship with my husband, my mood, my skills, after I found a "secret blog" full of stuff I feel unable to support, after they told me a thing that was the final red flag I was able to put up after a history of ignoring red flags.

-I decided to choose my own happiness.

-I decided to choose mental health.

-I never insulted.

-I never lied.

-I felt manipulated, with the feeling my only value to them was my drawing skills to be used for their project and my relative popularity in a fandom to help them to get noticed themselves. I had the feeling the only reason they clinged to my friendship was that they would lose the use of my skills. The episode of the stolen drawings confirmed it to me.

-I only asked my stuff to get removed, ready to move on and hoping my characters and concepts won't be used never again. After they lied to me, I decided I earned my right to recover and use what was mine. I even surrendered one of those characters completely as a gesture of good will because they had an attachment to said character.

-I've shown repeatedly actions of good will and hopes of stable terms.

-I deleted my Deviant Art account, that they helped to boost in watchers, in order to not be accused of 'taking advantage' of their action. I haven't had an account on dA ever since.

-I've sent private emails to manage our problems directly. Ignored by them.

-There is no one left on their side who was a witness of our friendship, relationship and exchanges at the time, because I was the only friend they had then -another lie: they said once that I wanted to isolate them so I could be their only friend, totally false because I always encouraged they could search new friends in their area and even helped them actively to set the accomodations for an Erasmus trip. In the opposite, they are who made actions to get me afar from my irl friends and husband so I could focus only on them. They can say whatever they want to the people surrounding them now and be believed because they don't know me at all, never worried about knowing my side, and I don't expect it. My image is at their mercy, and they don't hesitate in using lies. There is nothing I can do against it that doesn't require legal action.

But I guess I'm the baddie, huh.

[bambi-kinos]

just fyi there's a spy in your server. not that anything very exciting ever gets copied across but I'm seeing screenshots of it on another server. you might wanna do a purge of all inactives.

Thank you for the heads up, anon. I have gone ahead and banned all of the inactives.

It's funny that you should mention it now because I was talking to one of the current (vetted) members of the server. She told me that one of the people who came into the McLennon server over the summer had plagiarized one of her fanfics -- not only plagiarized but actually admitted and owned up to the plagiarism when she asked them about it. After I kicked a bunch of people, that person removed all of the attributions that they had put on the fanfiction they wrote, after those attributions fixed the problem. After all it is perfectly fine and reasonable to re-use and remix concepts from other people or else it isn't fanfiction in the first place. The problem is the lack of attribution, and in the comparison reading we did of the two stories we quickly realized just how much had been lifted.

But since that person had been kicked we thought that was the end of it, we didn't think anything of it. Until your message came in and we realized that if certain members were spies then that meant they had to have ties to the plagiarist which only leaves a few possibilities as regards to motive. None of them are good. Those screencaps you're seeing might not be interesting to you but they might be interesting to others, and this time it's not about the fanfiction.

Most of the members of the McLennon server had post-graduate aspirations. My friend from the above interaction freaked out because:

So if the person running the splinter discord is who I think it is, and since they have a noted pattern of behavior of lifting phrases and scenes without attribution, and you combine that with our professional aspirations in academia, then all of a sudden this gets really, really fucking bad. This could put our jobs at stake. It's not about something as petty as fanfic, it's about our livelihoods.

I am very grateful that you reached out to me about this, anon. We don't know how much damage has been done but hopefully since we haven't gotten too far into our post-grad careers we should be able to recover. It's all thanks to you.

[minniepetals]

Yo, sorry to be a bother to you but I would like to ask a favor (tho you don't need to do if you don't want to, I am not your responsibility, I just thought I'd try).

So basically, there is a blog called "chaibts" which encourages anons to harass and bully content creators, their latest target being a minor (she's not the first nor will she be the last one). Saying shit like "this is the most attention you’ve ever had, be thankful! is it disturbing that a couple of people are sending you asks, calling you out? you find it disturbing that there are people “keeping tabs on you”? ah, the irony of a yandere and assault writer. 🥰" (I cannot send the screenshot since I asked anonymously).

You are free to investigate this yourself, but it had gone so much worse to the point that the writer being bullied is getting rape threats (AGAIN SHE'S A MINOR) and those that bullies her were using the excuse that they're only doing so because they're responsible adults who don't like minors on the site. This is truly horrifying to see, as there is a place for them that encourages to do so.

Again, she's not the first one nor she's the last. The cult-like behavior is baffling, they even had the pride to boast that they were successful in bullying someone off the platform before, and she's next. Unfortunately, that's becoming a reality. Again sorry for dragging this to you, but just feels bad really.

Thank you, and if you ever decide to report the said account due to hate speech, please ask your followers to do it too. Thank you.

i honestly don't like involving myself in anything related to things like that but i did go onto the blog to see what's up and it's honestly so disgusting. if people have complaints, why don't they just go to the writers themselves and tell them the problem rather than going behind their backs and talk about them on another blog? not to mention doing it anonymously just goes to show how low they are. their intentions are to "educate" people and to show them their wrongdoings but doing so in such a blatant way is absolutely disgusting. no one deserves hate whether they've made a mistake or not. i've had people plagiarize my works before but never would i ever want to have myself or my readers go to them with hate and bully them off a platform. educating people with good intentions is alright but sending hate to people with the pretense of educating them isn't right. i don't understand why people are the way that they are. if you don't like certain accounts interacting with your blog, block them bruh. you shouldn't bully people and intentionally hurt them. this is honestly so sickening. watch people come after me now lmao

[nyerus]

The Absolute Clownery....

Ya’ll so someone actually tried to plagiarize TGCF?!!?

Gonna try to keep this insanity short but OH my god. Some people (possibly young teenagers; no ages were given on any profiles, so just please keep that in mind) on Instagram started promoting a work of theirs called “The Third Ascension”... featuring main character Xue Yuan, a crown prince who ascended to godhood and then fell from grace over 800 years ago, and meets a ghost king by the name of Ze Cheng....

If you’re thinking “well golly that sounds a lot like something we know” YEAH SDLFKJSDLKFJSDLKFJSD

The “author” wholesale ripped of TGCF and changed Xie Lian + Hua Cheng’s names (AND ONLY THEIRS, BTW). I really hope no one bought the fake books off Rakuten’s Kobo (e-book) site. You can self-publish on there, and the “author” also spared no effort to make fake reviews. Well. Some effort was apparently spared because they were all made on the same day and clearly fake as hell.

And yeah, they did tag @/scholasticinc on instagram -- you know, the children’s books publisher, with titles like “Captain Underpants” and “Clifford the Big Red Dog.” Please just. Take a moment to imagine a world where Scholastic would publish a Chinese xianxia novel featuring horror, gore, violence, suicide, sexual content, and psychologically distressing material -- just to name a few things! BUT APPARENTLY, no need to worry about the gay stuff, because the “author” so generously made Hualian’s romance into a bromance. Like. Legitimately took TGCF and said “everyone’s het tho!” No genderbending, just het-ification. Idk.

I really cannot. I’m moving on for my sanity’s sake. I’ve already lost so much time to how many hysterical breakdowns I’ve had because of this in the last hour and a half.

Meanwhile, the “artist” ripped off not only STARember, but various other fanartists. They have a slew of stolen artworks on their instagram even from artists like GEAROUS. Absolutely baffling.

However, Things Are Happening already, so we can rest assured. Because both of them have set their profiles to private, the carrd and wixsite they had to promote it are down, the discord server was purged (unclear if deleted, people tried to raid it and got kicked lol), and the books were taken off listings from Kobo’s sites. There are multiple sites in different languages though, so it will probably take a little bit of time to get them all down. Fans on Weibo have also been made aware of it.

What’s infuriating is the idea that these people profited off of stolen works, and had thousands of followers. The “author” has over 18k followers on insta!!! Like wth!? Surely amongst those 18k, there was at least one gullible person that fell for this and gave them money. Yeesh. If these people are indeed kids, then I hope they’re really young and stupid -- and that they learn from these. Parents please pick up your kids omg. If they’re adults, then I really do not know what to say.

Technically, it’s still a developing situation, and I don’t have more screenshots because things moved SO fast. By the time I was done screaming and processing the whole situation, telling people I knew, and reporting what I could, that shit was gone LMFAO!!! Fandom moved hella fast, thank goodness. I don’t know what’ll come of it, and I’m really just making this post to archive the fact that this happened at all because I’m not entirely convinced that it’s not just a stress dream I’m having right now.

This twitter user is doing a really amazing job of cataloguing what the hell is going on, so please check out their thread if you wanna see more: https://twitter [.] com/wwxwashere/status/1376948807729045512?s=20

Also rest assured that Suika and the other translators know about it already: twitter [.] com/yummysuika/status/1376952468899295234

Thank you very much to Otonozhin on the Suibian discord sever for bringing it to my attention, as well as others on there + the HOBL server + on twitter who helped spread the word and report all this.

[cleocazo]

hey hp rp + rpc tags ! i’m popping by to make a public service announcement / callout ? regarding blatant plagiarism from the admin of @impiushq​. so far, i’ve discovered the plagiarism in question taking place in two rps under the details ELENI / ADMIN E, 18, est, she / her (  o worm#5862 on discord ). i have no idea whether it goes further than this, but where my initial concern was simply my creative property having been swiped and used in another rp, i’ve since discovered that eleni was brave enough to open her OWN rp at the above url knowing full well that her ‘interpretation’ of her character was stolen, and i think the rpc should know exactly who they’re shouting out and supporting by joining her rp. anyway. onwards with the necessary info, right ?

so the first penny drop was when i saw that petrificushq had a lily evans on an activity check with a martyr related url ( @mcrtyris​ ) which at first was just SUPER funny to me, since i play a lot with the theme of lily being a ‘little martyr’ and have used it in the past as blog title, playlist title, label, etc. i opened the blog and immediately felt as if... the layout to everything was very similar to my own and that the use of a theme made by the same person who made a previous one of mine ( subsequently changed due to the fact that it came out the themes had all been stolen, but i digress ) was... weird. fast forward to me knowing with complete certainty everything they used on that blog was stolen from me, i messaged the rp to let them know and began to search the marauders rp tags on the off chance they had taken my lily elsewhere, since they were on an activity check in that rp.

here’s the thing : i’d like for this to be the ONLY instance i had to screenshot, but as it turns out, it’s not. so stick with me, please ! 

the search ended at @impiushq​, which is an rp RUN by eleni. in it, she’s playing lily evans ( @puermiles​ ) - once again with my information. it was one thing to take my bio to another rp, but it’s another thing ALTOGETHER to open a roleplay with my information for your singular character, and it seemed to me that eleni got braver when she was finally in a space created by herself : my tag system, my musing posts, even character development things i did were taken there. 

i couldn’t work out the best way to go about this, so while i do in fact HAVE screenshots and all of eleni’s information copied and pasted to google documents in case she deletes her blogs, i’m choosing just to link the major instances because frankly : its a LOT, and all of it was stolen. screenshots just won’t do, here. i’ve gone with the oldest google doc i actually own of this information ( last edited june 17th ) because i want you all to know that my lily predated eleni’s by MANY weeks, and i’d be happy contact the first rp i was apart of with her for the may timestamp of my application, lmao. my lily potter blog has always been @flevrdelis, currently privated. the two blogs of eleni’s where she is using my information are @mcrtyris​ & @puermiles. as of now, you can view both. if they go down, i will still have screenshots & copies of both, so eleni : there’s no point in removing the proof of your plagiarism in hopes of it not being seen. 

THIS IS MY LILY POTTER TIMELINE / biography. here & here you can find the watered down copies, stolen by eleni. 

THIS IS MY STATISTICS PAGE, copied from my blog as i’m not taking it off private now. HERE & HERE are eleni’s. in the first, the first time she copied and pasted my work, you can see she left ( evans ) when she shouldn’t have in ‘meaning of names’. on top of stealing my work, here, she’s also stolen my ‘only the good seasons’ joke about tvd in character parallels, lol.

THIS IS MY INTRODUCTION, the earliest iteration of it. HERE & HERE you can find eleni’s ‘abriged bios’ / intros, which are both also blatantly ripped from me, and contain all MY jokes and information.

CLICK HERE TO BE REDIRECTED TO AN IMGUR PHOTO ALBUM, containing all instances if theme stealing, etc.

AS OF NOW BOTH BLOGS ARE DOWN, PLEASE FIND PUERMILES INFO HERE & MCRTYRIS INFO HERE.

please also note that where my go to fc for lily and the fc i was using when she would have stolen this information was melis sezen and that my lily potter, regardless of where played, identifies as NON BINARY. both times eleni has changed my lily to a abigail cowen, and has turned her into a cis woman. if you’re going to steal from me, can you at least keep what you’re stealing intact ?

look : as a wise individual has since said to me... the level of no concern that she has of the consequences for this to do it TWICE is baffling. the fact she could KNOWINGLY steal my writing ( because whatever the excuse, your finger doesn’t just slip for you to steal so much information directly from someone ) in one rp was bad enough, but that she went on to create her own and think it would never come out is... shocking. my lily potter / evans is a carefully crafted character that i’m attached to for a lot of reasons, but most especially because she’s the only character in recent years i attached so much personal information to. she’s formed out of people and situations specific to my family and me, and it’s FUNNY, but it’s also absolutely shocking behaviour. this is illegal. i don’t OWN the rights to lily potter, but i own absolutely EVERYTHING that went into her. eleni, this is illegal. it’s shockingly bad, disgusting, HORRID behaviour, but it’s also illegal, and you should absolutely be aware of that. 

obviously, i would like first and foremost an apology from eleni for this. an explanation. absolutely anything at all. but second to that, i’d really appreciate the rpc seeing this and making sure that MY creative property isn’t taken to another space yet again by this person. 

[bondsmagii]

I'm pre-emptively wincing but.... what's the slenderverse tea

alright. so.

recently it’s come to light that the creator of a Slenderverse video series the name of which has something to do with a certain number of tribes is an unmitigated piece of shit. basically he’s been doing the usual bullshit that assholes like that do when they get any kind of influence or power: he was grooming minors and sexually assaulting people. now, I hate the guy, and I have since 2012, so I never doubted it considering some of what I saw even way back when 🅱ribe12 was first starting out, but you know how it is. cancel culture, a lot of people do tend to stretch things... I thought it would be a few messages, more of him being a fetishising creep, etc. and it was. but it was also so, so much worse. I won’t go into detail because it’s nasty, and the accusations are pretty graphic in their detail and there’s a lot of screenshots of him being an unholy jerk, but I’ll link the megapost at the end for anyone wondering.

on top of the assault and grooming, he’s also highly inappropriate when it comes to his massive list of fucked up fetishes, which are incredibly messed up (z**philia, b*stiality, inc*st, etc). he also apparently has a fetish for trans people, which he’s pretty explicit about, and the whole thing is just :/ yikes. he was out there sending graphic messages about this stuff to people, including trans people and minors, and also people who had told them they were uncomfortable with it. he was also a shitty friend in general, trying to scam people out of money, worrying more about losses to his Patreon account when a donor was considering suicide, etc. generally everything you would expect from an entitled asshole, but somehow so much worse.

honestly? I feel so bad for everyone affected by this, both his victims and the people who have to come to terms with the fact that someone they respected turned out to be a complete asshole. it’s extra frustrating because I saw the warning signs in 2012, and I have always hated this particular creator. my beef started when 6x2 Tribes had just begun and I saw a lot of plagiarism going on -- a lot of things were ripped off directly from some Hornets That Have Been Marbled, and I was pretty vocal about how shitty that was. this lessened pretty quickly, probably due to backlash (the creator later said it was just a “homage”, but like... dude, that would not have passed TurnItIn) but I always had a bad feeling about him because someone who can do that so shamelessly always sets off my asshole vibes. 

I kept a close eye on him after that, and I quickly saw him saying a lot of inappropriate shit on Facebook. the way he interacted with fans skeeved me out -- it was clear he was using them for an ego-boost, for validation, and just generally to make himself feel important. the way he would also bully newer fans for being too cringe or whatever also set me off, and I yelled at him a few times for that, as well. finally he made this gross post about shipping, where he said that mlm stuff grossed him out but wlw stuff was OK because it was hot, and I knew from that moment that he was going to end up grooming and probably assaulting people. I even said to some friends at the time that this asshole displayed the exact kind of power-hungry arrogance that predators always had, and I’ve been waiting for something like this to break with profound dread. now it’s blown up and it was so much worse than I thought it would be. I’m so glad that he’s no longer active and hopefully he’ll just disappear and stay gone, but I really wish that I’d managed to get more people to listen way back when. the only problem was that he hadn’t done anything serious enough by then, because so many people would defend him and he would just say he was joking or it was taken out of context, and unfortunately you can’t persuade people to give up something they love just because you have a hunch. but man, was I right about this dickhead.

megapost of all the accusations, statements, and screenshots (Reddit link). warnings for just about everything you can think of.

[agent-aurelie]

It’s also been brought to my attention that the “eyes” that are stalking my tumblr and reporting to Ris (i.e. batmanwholaughss/kaneralovebot/whatever) have apparently sent her screenshots of the passages I’ve claimed to be stolen.  She has since apparently gone in to literally cut ENTIRE CHUNKS of stolen content from her fanfics out of her AO3 postings.  I have two things to say to this: 

1) the first thing we did when we found the plagiarism was to save/download the fics, so we’re working with the original, unedited content that she later changed after being called out.  If you don’t believe me, message me or @specseven and we’d be happy to send you the (totally legally) downloaded original files from AO3. Moreover, these original files are where I took my screenshots from before she edited them on AO3, so these were the versions available for people to read since their posting, likely edited in the last 24 hours.  So if you’re looking at the fics now and saying “But Aurelie, those passages aren’t there any more!” They’re not there because she’s been exposed as a thief and she panicked. 

Am I glad she deleted some of my stolen words from some of her fics? Sure am.  But it doesn’t change the fact that she’s stolen my work and took credit for my words.  In fact it only further condemns her.  And we have proof.

2) it’s the most damning thing in the world to be called out for stealing and then to panic and go back into your fics and delete whole passages of them because you’ve been found out.  Not only does the integrity and continuity of your story now suffer because you had to hurriedly chop out everything that was stolen, but you’re basically admitting guilt.  “Yup I stole this and I was caught, better remove it real quick before more people notice!” 

Nice try, Ris.  Receipts save lives.

[whirlybirbs]

hey since you have screenshots of her version of the fic why don’t you post some side by sides to really show how much she actually plagiarized on watt pad. then all her friends can really see that it wasn’t just taking inspiration from it.

sure.

despite the fact that, right off the bat, the name darth fortem is stolen.

“fortem” is the only sith!obi out there.

this name was created by me, for the fic i wrote called bone-picked teeth. you can read it here. originally, like i’ve said a million times, the old fic “struggle against me” by nicky_writes along with chats on a livestream was what prompted me to write sith!obi. for that reason, i created a completely original character to diverge from nicky_writes.

because i didn’t want to plagiarize. 

so, that’s the first bit. even did some research on latin turn of phrases to pin down fortem. worked my ass off to make him interesting and fun and hot and fresh. 

anywho,

here’s my headcanon post about obi/maul, posted in early january. here’s darksabers post about obi’s background on both her wattpad & instagram:

which leads me into the high-ranking senator from corellia bit, which -- you literally need to just read three sentences from my fic, bone-picked teeth, to understand that is my plot-line. here’s a few lines that outline that:

“Obi-wan Kenobi has long since been dead. In his place, Darth Fortem stands. A Sith Lord working in the background during the Clone Wars, he's hired to murder a newly elected Corellian Senator stirring up problems for the syndicates back home.” my literal summary, on AO3.

You bite your tongue, eyes bouncing across his face before you turn away, settling your gaze on the far wall of the refresher. “I was a working girl for one of the syndicate’s Lieutenants back on Corellia for some time.” taking about her background in chapter 6

the other big nasty is this intro to fortem’s character, which she introduces with the line beneath the gif of “DON’T BITE THE HAND THAT IS HEALING YOU, MY LADY”. 

this line is from chapter 6 of my fic:

“You’re not – yet, look at us now.”

You turn, sparing him an icy look over your shoulder.

He raises his tweezers in a light-threat. “Bite the hand that heals. I dare you.”

then, there’s the entire fact that darksabers followed me on tumblr for three months, during which i posted, wrote, and blogging about this topic all the time. i was writing a lot for fortem. 

i sadly do not have a screenshot of our mutual status, but people can attest that they reblogged my content early on in their tumblr. here’s proof of the fact i did reach out and when, as well as what i said -- since i’ve been so “uncivil”.

i hope that helps clear up a lot of the questions her followers/supporters have -- i mean, it’s good i caught this fic when it literally only had an intro posted. thankfully, she hadn’t gone and copied my entire eight chapter fic, just my plot and characters (all very blatantly). 

[luvdsc]

Yes I do believe it's wrong what she did but I think it's a little uncalled for to be calling her out and making her to be a terrible person. It should be something in your dms and hers and whoever was affected, not for the whole community to know and know bully her.

I posted evidence to compare both of our writings and screenshots of our conversation for transparency purposes. I never once called her a terrible person. If that is the conclusion you come to, then that is your own personal judgment, and you should not blame me for that. Instead, please ask yourself why you now think of her in that manner.

I did dm her first about it, and she did not apologize nor admit to the plagiarism and continued to lie to me about it. I was going to respond to her, but she deactivated without warning and still, I never received an apology.

There was a pattern of her copying, starting with my fic formats and summary, which I overlooked because I thought people would call me dramatic and I was being paranoid, but look how far it has gone now. She took my nct fic and changed it to enhyphen. I would never have caught that if it weren’t for the anon notifying me. She plagiarized my fic. And then I find out that my friend has also experienced something similar by her as well, but she didn’t want to call it out because she too thought she would be labeled as paranoid or that it was only obvious to her.

This is so that other writers are cautious about plagiarism across fandoms and are aware of what’s happening. So that they too can be aware that if something doesn’t feel right, if something feels like it’s too similar to their own writing, then they should trust their gut and confront the other person. If the other person is innocent, they would have no issue with explaining their stance with real evidence, not fabricated text messages and half baked excuses. Plagiarism is never okay, lying is never okay, and it’s a shitty feeling to find out that someone tried to claim your hard work that you put time and effort into as their own. I hope you don’t have to go through this experience yourself, and if you ever do, I hope you also speak up about it.