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Where do we draw the line between imitation as a form of flattery, and imitation as a form of stealing?
Part I - Instagram
I’ve been away from Tumblr for a heck of time but only one crazy discovery got me back ranting in here. The reason? Someone stealing my content. There is no problem taking bits of inspiration from everywhere but this one’s a whole new level of pro. Let’s start from the very beginning and I’ll leave the judgement to you.
PS. I’m censoring some details out of pity for this person.
It’s funny how Instagram would sometimes lead you to the most unexpected suggested people. I stumbled upon a suspicious suggested account (I use the word suspicious because I was instantly drawn to how familiar it looks), and behold, it’s very much patterned to my IG poetry page and I knew for sure it belongs to this person.
I’ve been writing since 2006. I usually kept a handwritten journal for everything but you really don’t get the time for it anymore as an adult. So my iPhone Notes became my go-to until all my thoughts were consuming too much of my phone memory already. I started transferring some of my writing on Tumblr during 2018, and around June 2022 I decided to put up an Instagram account for some selected content. Creating each layout for @poetrybymarii had also became a much-needed break from my day job as well.
Upon discovering this suggested account and distinguishing the theme that had been copied from me, I immediately scrolled back to its earliest post to determine how old the account was—the account was created August 2022, exactly two months after I’ve created @poetrybymarii. I messaged this person to confirm if the account belongs to her (which, even if she denied was obviously hers). In the beginning she admitted ownership, not knowing what’s next to come.
You see, I was already aware how this person was stealing bits of captions and whatnots. I was ready to let it slip away again until one of her posts truly alarmed me—it was one of the proses I wrote and posted here on my Tumblr dated September 10, 2018. It was copied and minorly tweaked! You can see how the whole context, sentence per sentence are still the same. Words were just jumbled or replaced with synonyms but the whole chronological order of it all remains.
I confronted her again and this was the start of her denying it all. Let’s debunk her alibi here:
Alibi: “It was not mine, I just saw it somewhere and copied it because I found it nice. Someone must have reposted and that’s where I found it. But I did not copied it from you.”
Point 1 — The moment she confirmed the poetry account was hers, she was clear about how it was just an outlet account for her thoughts. Meaning she claims ownership for all the content written and posted. Not one post had a proper credit in it. Also judging the awkward English composition and grammar, it was a no-brainer that the write-up there was all her work.
Point 2 — My original prose was posted on my Tumblr account with a very few following. It did not receive any notes (likes and re-shares) so the chances of it going viral being passed around to make it into her screen apart from my very page was impossible.
Point 3 — My prose needed to become viral first to close the possibility of someone firstly related to me have it find somewhere. But had it been viral, I would have still known. Social Media is part of my job. There is no tricking me in this one.
Part II – Tumblr
The entirety of my conversation with this person was pointless as she tries to divert away from the very point of her stealing my prose. Overwhelmingly, she was ready with all her alibies and screenshots, and suddenly admitted that not all the content posted on her poetry IG was hers. She tried to justify her way out from her own lies and sent me a screenshot of her Tumblr banner (one mistake she made). And this was the second part of my crazy discovery as I began to delve into her blog. Guessing her Tumblr URL and tracking it was a piece of cake even if she changed it upon my confrontation.
If there’s one thing I can proudly claim on the internet it’s that I was a part of the Tumblr O.G. back in 2007. This very account is already 8 years old (est.2015) and my third account since then. “Ask me anything” feature was only added sometime around mid-2010’s, and it took me a flooding of Anonymous asks before I came into addressing them as “Anons”. This person’s Tumblr account was created only October 2020*. She reiterated how she has no ill intention with any of her accounts which have no followers in it, to which I pointed out—if she has literally no followers, where did all the “ask me anything” came from? Were these lovely compliments and questions all fabricated by her too just to make it look like her page is gaining foot traffic in it? But then again it was all part of her gaslighting, diverting away from the main point which was her plagiarizing my prose.
At this point all I was able to say was FOR FUCKS SAKE. I was beyond speechless to discover how even some of our photos were the same. She also had some selfies in there that were the same replica pose of my past selfies.* She denied everything once again and stated how I was not the only person who knew apps. But Pins was an unknown app. Pins is not something that would pop-out on the app store as you type in search “collage maker.” It was something I discovered hands-on as I braved and tinkered through links and links of mandarin characters I do not understand. I think I may have shared some discovered Japanese and Chinese apps in this Tumblr account as well if you scroll all the way back. Anyhow as soon as I saw her photos using the exact frame from Pins, I immediately tried to recall where I may have shared the app away. I remember sharing it through a comment on Instagram when a friend complimented my post. I have not shared it anywhere else.
Alibi: “You’re not the only one who knows apps.”
True. But adding to all the prior things I mentioned above about the app, WHY the fucking fuck does she need to use the very same two frame collages I used, out of all the hundreds of frames found in Pins?
It does not end in here. There was a heck ton of other odd similarities—from her selfies posted there that are too sensitive to share away already, to specific favorite songs posted and captioned.
Part III — Conclusion
Once a cheater, always a cheater, as cliché as it is—they would never own up their mistakes. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Luna’s viral #F👁️👁️D eyes photo it’s that you gotta screenshot everything the second you find out about someone stealing your content, and you gotta fight for proper credits and rights. How this person tried to gaslight me when she said “I didn’t knew you were this shallow, why is this a big deal?” was something only a manipulative narcissistic person would say. Artists and creatives are so prone to having their content stolen in this modern era, and people like her who think things like this are no big deal are actually the first cause of this problem.
PS. Her Instagram was taken down. Too bad I already got the SSs.
*References on file
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#hi i tried my best to immitate the csm style#i hope i did well enough#never doing this again im gonna die#bungou stray dogs#kunikida#kunikida doppo#bsd#bungou stray dogs kunikida#kunikidazai#dazai osamu#dazai#kunikida x dazai#bungou stray dogs fanart#bungou stray dogs dazai#bsd fanart#chainsaw man#csm
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AOT ART BOOK COVER!
TEARS ARE ROLLING DOWN MY FACE THIS IS SO ADORABLE 😭💕
#post war Levi my angel#he looks so happy 😭#he’s finally able to rest#and gabi immitating him OMG 😭#levi ackerman#attack on titan#captain levi
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#cats#outing myself once again as someone whos not attune whatsoever to human culture but - in all honesty I do not know#what 'psspsspss' means despite loving cats my entire life hghj.. I've just seen people online describe that as how you call a cat#but I have never in my life witnessed someone call a cat by making that noise or made that noise myself. I can't even think of an example o#it so I genuinely don't even know what that's supposed to be but. Included because I've seen it so much it must be something to someone#even when I was a kid I pretty much always just meowed to cats and tried to sound exactly like them or whatever meow I associated with them#obviously not literally saying “ME OW” but doing an actual cat meow. often times a kind of 'prrrow' sort of noise where you trill your tong#ue then lead into a softer vocal tone .. maybe like 'mrrrrauh' or something? Or sometimes just a trilling chirp immitating the#cat's ''mrrrrp'' they do sometimes. I used to mimic small kittens to get the attention of cats#with their like very high pitches squeky whine with a little bit of air out the nostrils at the end to imitate the sound of them having#tiny lungs that don't hold much air so with a long loud 'mew' it's sometimes a little strained near the end#Though usually I just imitate the cat that I'm around at the time. Sometimes I have done kind of a combination kissy lip sort of noise#tongue clicking. almost like tapping on the back of your front teeth with your tongue and sucking in. almost makes kind of a squirrel noise#ANYWAY... curiouse....
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Did this meme going around twitter with my number one baby angel sweet little guy love you forever linnyboo
#fe3h#fire emblem three houses#fe16#linhardt von hevring#linhardt#everyone plz appreciate how on model my immitation Lin is
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Me almost getting tboned by a ford f150 running a red light an hour ago: omggg is this a wittb reference?? Omggggg wooowwwww
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#Toothless immitating some of his best friend's mannerisms since httyd 1#plz i love them so much! the best friends ever!#httyd#httyd rtte#httyd race to the edge#rtte#race to the edge#when darkness falls#httyd hiccup#httyd toothless#hiccup and toothless#hiccup horrendous haddock lll#hiccup haddock#toothless#dreamworks dragons#rtte live blog
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Star Trek tos x Scooby Doo: A crossover nobody asked for.
I really wanted to draw the alien dog as Scooby but it was from another episode and suddenly the whole illustration had to be about the Corbomite Maneuver T_T
#illustration#star trek tos#scooby doo#the corbomite maneuver#what am I even drawing#tos#star trek#star trek fanart#james t kirk#Spock#I did my best to immitate the drawing style of the Scooby Doo cartoon but then I got carried away while colouring#Kirk is Freddie
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I CAN'T be the only one that thinks the way lightsabers look when the Jedi swing them through the air looks really beautiful, so hear me out.
Lightsaber dances.
It's a century old tradition in the Jedi order, and a popular hobby for the younger members of the order.
The dances involve either moving your lightsaber in specific ways to make forms and visual tricks with the saber. The movements themselves are based off (if they aren't already) acctual fighting techniques.
The tradition has multible functions. For one, it's orcourse the fun factor for everyone. The Jedi doing the dance and the people watching them. Lightsaber dances are also often used to teach the younglings the basics of lightsaber fighting in a fun and active way. And even for older Jedi it still serves as a nice and light training in terms of concentration and swift movement since you gotta be aware of your blade at all times inorder to produce the best visuals.
If you do them with a partner they serve as great exercise for getting intune with the other since broth parties have to look after the other and themselves to not bumb into eachother or mess up the steps as they perform.
And last but not least, they also serve as a sort of rememberance and honoring ritual. Jedi incorporate and mimic fighting stances and attacks of those they either wish to honor or remember into dances and perform them for those they made them for.
Since usually it takes a lot of concentration to do these dances it's a way of saying "look, I did all this because I deeply respect you. And I also build in movements like yours to show that I pay attention to you and care about you."
Some lineages even have their own dances, each generation adding their own move to it. Each Jedi takes pride in being able to show the history of their lineage. It also serves as a connection between the generations at the temple.
Each padawan learning their lineage dance and adding to it can say that he made this with Jedi long before them and will have made it with Jedi long after them too.
Then when the war starts and Jedi start to form close bonds with the clones, it's only natural they add them in the dances.
Ofcourse there are no lightsaber stances or techniques the Jedi can mimic to put into their dances. So they do their best to mimic the movements of clones when their fire or advance.
#jedi culture#lightsaber#lightsaber dances#Grey nearly cries when one day a very excited Caleb insists on him watching his dance#and Depa explaining that her padawan worked really hard to figure out what kind of movements would immitate the clones the best#because he also wanted to honor the clones when he honored fallen Jedi heros in his dance '
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Im talkin completely artificial. There are only two options and that is on purpose. You can and should argue your case either way. Reblog.
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Made a TV show-Jim guide to properly establish the tiny rules and details I've noticed whilst watching the show. This is just to help me understand the shows design
#it's obviously not the definitive way to draw jim#he has gone through many different style changes so don't interpret this as me saying “YOU SHOULD DRAW HIM LIKE THIS OR PERISH!!!!!!”#The whole point of drawing jim is to have fun and to play around with the style :)#I'm trying to immitate the style exactly as it is to improve my cartoon expression skills to later implement into my own ocs#faceee art#also if you WANT to learn how to immitate the artsyle I'd suggest just watching each frane carefully#see how his head proportion is compared to his eyes...the different eyes and mouths... yada yada#I'm not obsessed what are you talking about SHUT IT-#earthworm jim
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Me: "Not sure why people portray trolls, goblins, and other fae beings as uncanny and incomprehensible. They seem like perfectly normal and reasonable people to me."
Me (neurodivergent): *Gets into a lively and engaging conversation with Roommate A (also neurodivergent).*
Roommate B (neurotypical): "I literally can't understand anything you two are saying. It doesn't look like you're having a conversation but are just talking over each other, getting louder and louder, and I can't tell what anything's leading up to and it's very upsetting. Excuse me while I go wait in the other room until you're both done."
Me: "Ah. That'll do it."
#norse paganism#neurodivergent#something something art immitates life#note that my roommate wasn't getting upset because of saneism or whatever#it legit just makes his brain itchy
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sitting in the dirt with frogs energy
#my art#naruto#naruto uzumaki#how else can you understand an animal except to sit by them and watch them do as they do. maybe immitate them a bit
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Wait, his name is Musselman and he took off his shirt as a celebration? Where have I heard that before...
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