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lokifanSomeone fully ripped off my old Harry/Draco fic Aftershocks and posted it as their own, in order to add an author’s note being like “yaoi is bad and stupid”. Like, what???
Honestly, I’m pissed off they stole my work, but it’s also just so weird to see someone doing “if you avoid reading any straight fics, that is actually heterophobia” and ‘We don't just see hot people on screen and immediately think “OMG I want them rubbing their genitals together right now!!!!1”’ in the year of our Lord 2023. They said something about winning the interwebs in the comments. This is someone way, way too old to think this is funny.
It’s also kind of weird and funny to me that they’re like… saying this is trolling but they also earnestly believe their ‘point’. Like they’re simultaneously making fun of people for recognising the fic as stolen (because it’s ‘sad’ to have read enough fic to recognise this one) and having weird dust-ups about how reverse racism is real in the comments.
And for all the open trollishness of the author’s note at the end, they didn’t admit to having stolen it. The other two fics on their account do seem to be actual parodies they wrote themselves, which obviously just got no attention as people scrolled by, so they decided to steal a real, decently popular fic and just add ‘surprise ending’ to the tags, in which the surprise ending is the screed about how m/m pairings are bad actually. Their last reply before people started calling them out on the theft includes a part that really makes no sense unless they were hoping/assuming people wouldn’t realise that they didn’t write the fic themselves: why shouldn't trollfics be allowed on AO3? This is a valid form of parody as far as I'm concerned and the South Park-style ending to this cracks me up. People just need to lighten up a little. I'm not trying to stop anyone from doing what they want, just trying to poke fun at the nonsensicalness of it all. And BTW, I only use this account to post fics which I anticipate will be unpopular due to their subject matter.
This all feels so 2006. WTAF.
(It’s already been reported, btw, and I’m hoping the fic will be gone v soon.)
Honestly, I’m pissed off they stole my work, but it’s also just so weird to see someone doing “if you avoid reading any straight fics, that is actually heterophobia” and ‘We don't just see hot people on screen and immediately think “OMG I want them rubbing their genitals together right now!!!!1”’ in the year of our Lord 2023. They said something about winning the interwebs in the comments. This is someone way, way too old to think this is funny.
It’s also kind of weird and funny to me that they’re like… saying this is trolling but they also earnestly believe their ‘point’. Like they’re simultaneously making fun of people for recognising the fic as stolen (because it’s ‘sad’ to have read enough fic to recognise this one) and having weird dust-ups about how reverse racism is real in the comments.
And for all the open trollishness of the author’s note at the end, they didn’t admit to having stolen it. The other two fics on their account do seem to be actual parodies they wrote themselves, which obviously just got no attention as people scrolled by, so they decided to steal a real, decently popular fic and just add ‘surprise ending’ to the tags, in which the surprise ending is the screed about how m/m pairings are bad actually. Their last reply before people started calling them out on the theft includes a part that really makes no sense unless they were hoping/assuming people wouldn’t realise that they didn’t write the fic themselves: why shouldn't trollfics be allowed on AO3? This is a valid form of parody as far as I'm concerned and the South Park-style ending to this cracks me up. People just need to lighten up a little. I'm not trying to stop anyone from doing what they want, just trying to poke fun at the nonsensicalness of it all. And BTW, I only use this account to post fics which I anticipate will be unpopular due to their subject matter.
This all feels so 2006. WTAF.
(It’s already been reported, btw, and I’m hoping the fic will be gone v soon.)
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Date: 2023-12-11 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-11 11:22 am (UTC)Good point - I can't see anything from a quick Google but I might check some other sites.