#wattpad plagiarism

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[lottiecrabie]

very nice of @myevcrything to completely plagiarize anatomy, pretend she deleted by accident and couldn’t reupload it to get rid of the evidence, and then block me on everything so i couldn’t privately reach out about the situation. so fucking nice !

so here’s what i would have said, in much less nicer words, since you want to make this public: i know you know that this is absolutely disgusting behavior or you wouldn’t be trying with all your might to cover your ass and the fact that you’re not even attempting to have shame or guilt about it is morally bankrupt. pls get some fucking decency and stop stealing people’s hard work. ‘if i don’t get writers block’ oh sure, it must be so hard for you to scour the internet looking for the next gem to steal!! honestly, if you can’t write for shit, retire the tumblr career and fuck all the way off

[myfandomrealitea]

Bored this fine evening? Consider:

Searching through works titled or marked as "collections" of X fandom/pairing on AO3 and reporting re-uploaded, stolen fanfiction and fanart.

Searching titles such as 'looking for fanfiction' and 'help needed' on AO3 and reporting non-fannish uploads that violate the TOS.

Reverse-searching the fanart used on Wattpad book covers to find the origin of stolen fanart and alert the original artists to the misuse.

Leaving comments on works containing the above to explain what the author has done wrong and why its unethical/against the rules.

I can promise you; its worthwhile and cathartic. To date I've helped somewhere in the region of over 200 people get their stolen and misused content removed. I have never had a single creator ungrateful or disinterested in protecting their content.

[pasukiyo]

Currently shaking in anger as I type this out lmao

THIS “AUTHOR” ON WATTPAD (USERNAME: JUSTHEATHERR) HAS PLAGIARIZED NOT ONLY MINE, BUT OTHER CREATORS ON TUMBLR’S WORKS.

I have stated on my blog MULTIPLE TIMES that I do not tolerate plagiarism or reposting of my works of ANY KIND. To not only repost my work without permission but to make it seem as if it were your own, as if you yourself wrote and reply to comments as if you yourself wrote this story and had implemented a reference to Aaron Warner yourself. (Which, just FYI, my fic never had an Aaron Warner reference in it to begin with LMFAO)

Please, if you see this post, please go report this “author” on Wattpad and call them out in their comments. I’m not going to stand for my work and other writers’ works getting plagiarized. We all put too much effort into our fics for them to be thrown around other websites and to be discredited.

Here is the link to my original work, which I posted in April of 2023 :) Call Me By MY Name — Tom Riddle

[unforth]

MXTX Fandom Content Thief: @/coldxperience

I've spotted someone wholesale copying the compiled list of Lan Clan rules I put together a few years ago. My list is here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25470928

Their list is here:

How do I know it's stolen? It's insanely easy to tell, actually. See, this is in my original a/n on ao3:

[ID screen capture of text that reads: These rules are presumably numbered, as when Lan Wangji is being beaten, Lan Qiren asks him “what is the 52nd doctrine of the Lan clan?” However, they are given in a different order in different sources so establishing how they are numbered is impossible. Since we can’t know the order they “belong” in, I’ve organized them by grouping them thematically. For the few I know numbers for, those numbers are included in parenthesis. End ID]

The rules have no official order or categories. I made up this order and these categories myself. And yet in coldxperience's post...

[ID: two side by side screen captures, one from coldxperience's blog, one from AO3, showing rules in a category labeled "appropriate behavior" and two matching lists of rules in the exact same order. End ID]

[ID two side by side screen captures showing rules in categories about respecting authority and cultivation. Again the categories are the same and the rules lists are identical and in the same order. End ID]

Look, there IS no canon categories or canon order. I made them up to organize them. It's absolutely impossible that someone else compiling a list would land on the exact same categories and the exact same order.

Coldxperience's list is plagiarized from my list. Which tbh I wouldn't have even minded all that much except they're claiming its their own work. My list was barely even MY own work, I used other people's translations (and I credited them). So like. Coldxperience didn't credit me, didn't credit the actual translators, and has the gall to apologize that there might be mistakes cause English and Chinese aren't their first languages.

There might be mistakes. On your stolen list. Gee, ya think?

Anyway, this person has been posting other meta they supposedly wrote about character name translations and such. If they stole wholesale from me they certainly stole from others.

I highly recommend yall block them.

(DO NOT HARASS THEM. DO NOT HARASS OTHER PEOPLE ITS NOT FUCKING WORTH IT JUST SPREAD THE WORD BLOCK AND MOVE ON).

[khepiari]

There is a special hell for people who steal from fanfic writers and fan artists. Our work is already FREE!

I repeat: Already FUCKING FREE YOU NUMBSKULLS! These are our life work purely made for the sake of enjoying our creative process and having fun with our friends.

What kind of loser steals free stuff?

[povlnfour]

in regards to the current wattpad plagiarism situation:

aside from the asks, i haven’t spoken about it myself and i’m going to briefly address it away from everything.

plagiarism is NEVER OKAY. so much hard work goes into what is created on tumblr, and i admire every single one of my fellow writers for the effort they put into their stories. for someone to take advantage of this and us posting for others enjoyment is, frankly, disgusting. to also claim that the writers were ‘asked’ before posting as such a bold faced lie is GROSS.

whilst i’ve only personally been affected by one collection, i am aware there are multiple people on wattpad rn posting the work of other incredible writers on this app and if anyone has any links to them, please do send them my way so i can report.

i have been incredibly busy with, well, being pregnant, so i haven’t had the time to reach out to any of the writers personally affected myself — however if this applies to you please don’t be afraid to reach out to speak. you deserve to know how incredible you are (you also deserve plenty of follows and i’m terrible at following so make sure i follow you back).

i would love to take this time to thank those tirelessly fighting against this whilst i’ve been offline. i appreciate you all so much🤍

[lemonlover1110]

since this person clearly has seen people call them out for stealing my works (AND OTHERS) but not done anything to REMOVE THEM! i’m taking it here! @/YutaOkku on wattpad has taken two of my oneshots and posted them, putting them as their own

The oneshot book has 90 oneshots and this have all been posted in the matter of a month, how ridiculous is it to claim that you wrote all that?

If you are on wattpad please make sure to leave them a nice message! proof is under the cut, if you want to see the original works you can go to my masterlist

[vilsoo]

no because wtf is this trend of “popular”wattpad writers that migrate over here and are COMPLETLEY NEW to tumblr, thinking they can just get away with stealing from bigger tumblr fic writers???

[tojiluv]

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୨୧ CARRD. RULES. MASTERLIST. TAGLIST.

❥ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒. REQUESTS OPEN!

01. eyes don’t lie — choso kamo

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03. unveiling love — uchiha clan

© 𝐭𝐨𝐣𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐯 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

[nauticalparamour]

So tonight, I was reminded that someone has posted an unauthorized German translation of Be Together on Wattpad, without referencing my original work. It's been reported multiple times, but it's still up over five years later. I looked into it a little bit and it seems like Wattpad won't remove it without a DCMA takedown request, but I don't really fancy giving Wattpad my legal name and address.

Has anyone else dealt with this? Suggestions on how you handled it?? I don't want my fics posted anywhere that I haven't posted them — ffnet and AO3.

[myfandomrealitea]

um, silly qiestion but is there any other way to reverse search images other than using google lens?

You can use websites like TinEye or DNSChecker, which will scour the internet for any instance of an image being uploaded and provide them in chronological order.

However, with these kinds of websites, please read the usage terms carefully. Some websites that offer services like this are very predatory and will hide in their usage terms that by 'uploading' an image to their site you are granting them permission to use it in varying ways.

Its also not as streamlined or time efficient, but often I've managed to find images by searching relevant key terms of descriptors into Google Images. E.g; "Henry Cavill Pink Fanart."

[pasukiyo]

lmfao don’t you just love how ignorant people can be? 🥰 love how this is the response i get when i’m advocating for myself and the numerous other writers who has had work stolen from!

[atypical-artisan]

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

[mostly-marvel-musings]

Hello! Someone reposted your work(s) over wattpat, their username is @smileybannana

Just wanted to let you know, have a nice day!

I saw the post someone made earlier, tagging many, many writers that were on there as well. It makes me furious that people are still doing it!!

I have reported this person. Hopefully it’ll be actioned. Apart from that, I don’t know if there’s anything we can do.

Thank you for letting me know though!

[euphor1a]

I don’t know if I should say this, but wattpad seems to have normalized plagiarism.

Thousands of people are reading fics that “credits” it back to certain tumblr users, and like, merely 0.0002% of those readers are actually concerned that what they are reading might be plagiarized despite the clearest of red flags and get back here to let us know (biggest THANK YOU to those who do inform us!) and worse? Writers sometimes find it out themselves.

ALSO, the said plagiarizers ALL have “© All rights reserved, do not repost” or a similar narrative somewhere in their bio, and sometimes in the notes of the works they literally did not write and stole from someone who worked hard on it.

Do they think it’s a joke?