Internet liars get theirs

[swankivy]

It's been a long time since I posted much of anything on LiveJournal besides my weekly updates. Anyone who reads them probably has a good idea of what's up with me lately but at the same time I've been so irritated at myself for not using the journal for venting like I used to. I really like having a written record of things I went through and

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[canadanne]

Ugh, I really hate people who plagiarise other people's stuff and then soak up all the thanks and praise they get for it. I once came across a blog that had stolen pretty much all the text from my fansite, and other fansites, and LJ community posts I recognised, and goodness knows what else, and just translated it into their own language with absolutely zero mention that they'd lifted all this content from elsewhere on the Internet. People in the comments were falling over themselves to say how much they enjoyed his writing and insights (things that I and other fans had poured a lot of time and thought into), and he was just like "You're welcome! Thanks for reading!" GRRRRRR. (I went on a rage-fuelled commenting spree posting links to all the pages he'd stolen these articles from, and he did at least send me a grovelling apology and add the links to his posts, heh. But how hard is it to just credit the original creators in the first place, instead of pretending it's all your own work? Is it really that satisfying to get praise for

[swankivy]

Oh yeah! A lot of this sounds super familiar! I've had my fan posts screencapped and had my name cropped off them, or even my art turned into a YouTube slideshow with people labeling them as "possible leaks" and shit! And once there was someone who apparently liked my blog and website enough that he copied its format and adapted it to his own blog, but didn't edit it enough to fully make it his own (like, some of my own commentary and justifications were included in lists of favorite stuff), and in between update posts like the ones I do he was writing about a bunch of the same topics I had writings about and in some cases completely lifting whole paragraphs from me as if he's allowed to do that because he agrees with what I said. (There were even a few places where graphics were transposed and they still linked back to my site!) I eventually commented on the page and told him it was flattering that he liked my stuff so much but he needed to stop taking so much of the content without crediting me. He did not respond and straight-up

[canadanne]

Bizarre indeed. I have no idea...