Like a month ago I catched this girl (jordanlover) who stole some of my colored screencaps and made icons (my caps), I asked her nicely but She lied to me and then deleted her journal.

A few days later, out of the blue, someone created this journal -> socult and started making icons.

Mine -> Hers ->

(mmmm funny, negative space, same concept...but I let it go).

And then the other day I saw this
Funny, before she deleted her journel She was asking about the texture I used

Mine -> Hers ->

And I know, I'm not the one who discovered those kind of textures, but I normaly use it in negative space and IT'S JUST SO WEIRD! Do you think is the same girl? Both were/are from Australia :/

I just noticed these from here by peclaire, who is a member of our icon community, but maybe I'm just hallucinating though, but I think that the croppings look alike an awfully alike And there are too many of them to be just a coincidence.

Hers: Mine:

she also managed to get some "inspirational cropping" from the other member of community, nightcomes.
First ones are hers, and the second ones are from nightcomes:

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  --> (They're almost the SAME!)
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And there is probably many more. That's sad.
It is quite unfortunate, 'cause her coloring is pretty and her sharpness is really good. but maybe she "stole" them too.

How many hours does a copycat take to stole your art and made a banner and post it in a forum?
I answer that, cranny_fan takes exaclty 20 hours.


My wallpaper:

you can see better here: http://community.livejournal.com/_imaginarium_/61035.html


cranny_fan's banner:



That way is very easy to make banners and icons!

Mine:


Hers (lets call her person A):


my icon post // her profile

*sigh* this happens so much on this particular message board, I don't even feel like saying anything. But if I don't, I'm going to catch crap from Person B because Person B knows I'm a bitch about this stuff.

Do I ever win?

I miss this community! I guess these aren't EXACTLY similiar but the color/crop/text on a lot of them is similiar and it leads me to believe it's more than just a coincidence. Or I could be wrong, idk.

the original: elphabesbian

full post

the ripper-off-er (wtf?): crywithme_x:

full post

(Compare the full posts, it'll prove my point more than just these few samples)

Okay, maybe they aren't THAT similar in terms of like, each icon copied exactly, but the style and the text is similar enough to make my brain think I've already seen the second set someplace. And I really miss this community and I wanted a reason to post to it.

Mine



Hers ls_silence



my post | hers

She didn't ask me for the pics (She took like ten pics), she obviously didn't credit me and SHE MODIFY THEM!

And She's so hypocrit She's leaving these kind of comments:

thanks so much, im glad you liked them. simplicity is what i was going for in most of these - so im glad it worked :)

And her rules are pretty funny:

I do allow all my headers (any of my art) to me taken by you and altered, or you can ask me for something if you want. e.g size, text etc

Because is not her work in the first place!!!!!

Hello, my pretties!

A few things:

o1: Where on Earth have all you new kids come from? I love this! I expect new, epic levels of bitching in the next few days, bbs. Take a look at the rules to brush up on how we work around here.

o2: I re-did the header, userinfo, and such, because it was getting pretty ugly around here. That's just not acceptable.

o3: Suggestions! We want them. This community has little, brief periods of a crazy influx of snark, and then ridiculously long dry spells. Let's try to figure out a way to have a constant level of said snark, yes?

You may now go back to your regularly scheduled bitching.

Will you go give this bitch some shit, please?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP_rxV-DzCk

HI. DUMBASS. MY STAR WATERMARK IS BLATANTLY OBVIOUS. YOU'RE TAKING ENTIRE CHUNKS OF MY EDITED VIDEO AND SLAPPING IT TO A NEW SONG (A SONG I HAVE ALREADY VIDDED FOR A DIFFERENT FANDOM, NO LESS).

AND NOT ONLY THAT. But I am trying to put together a project for Lisa Edelstein, @ levidproject. This person SENT me a submission for it, so I could put it in this massive tribute video, which is the entire point. THEN, SHE TAKES THE EXACT SAME IMAGES, ADDS A FEW EXTRAS, AND MAKES HER OWN TRIBUTE?! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!

HI. Friendly mod note. Someone should find something to bitch about because it's been like a month since we've had a post here and I really love hating on people who suck. LOL no seriously, I'm all depressed now because there are no new posts on here. I just had a blast going through old ones and now I'm all out. :(

Not getting angry about my icons, but other peoples, because every time you copy someones icon, fandom creativity and originality dies
(you might have already seen foxestacado's rant on this)

just last week, the lovely and talented foxestacado  posted a beautiful batch of DPO icons that look a little something like this :



pretty y/n?

the day after, i'm not kidding, not 24 hours afterwards, mscreations  posted this in her most recent icon batch

I have seen this happen to other xf icon makers before. If you're a member, or browse through icon_tutorial  every so often, you might have noticed her constant pleas for tutorials on how to make certain icons, stating that she'd already contacted the original maker and they had refused. What does that tell you? THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO COPY THEIR ICON.
I'd really like for there to be some originality and creativity in fandom. WHERE DID IT GO?!

OKAY.

Guess what? This place is officially locked-up. Want to join? Read this first:

CLARIFICATIONS:
1. You know what? We KNOW that the same thing, same phrase is going to appear on a gazillion icons in fandom. We're not talking about ripping off a piece of text. Jesus. Don't assume things like that when you clearly haven't read the damn rules. We're here to try and defend some highly respected people who have been ripped off and insulted, and who can't say a thing about it. I DON'T CARE ABOUT A FREAKING PIECE OF TEXT. I'm guilty of doing that, too. We all are. That's not what this place is about.

2. Don't agree with the community idea? DON'T JOIN. Don't go off and call us horrible bitches when you don't know us, or our reasons for being here. You're ranting about a ranting community. Don't be a hypocrite unless you actually know what you're talking about. Honestly. 

3. Yup. Some of us capslock in the comments. Some of us don't. I'm sorry if you don't like capslocking, I really am. However, if you think that we're a bunch of teenaged, capslocking fangirls--think again. We are just as capable of having in-depth, intelligent conversations as we are flailing. Again, we come here to blow off steam. Sometimes you just need to do it in capslock.

4. We're not monsters. We're not heartless bitches who are out to troll fandom and cause flame wars. We're here because we've been hurt, or offended, or saw someone who we deeply respected ripped off and stolen from. That affects us. It affects you. But don't think that we exist to be horrible people.

5. I started this community because someone who I cared about got hurt by someone she cared about. She's one of our mods here. So...keep in mind that we're here because we're sick of people messing with us, and hurting us. 

Now do you want to join? Go ahead. If you don't--well, thanks for stopping by. 

-Teh Mod-ly Vic

Welcome to

cheap_knockoffs. Turn around if you're in a good mood.

RULES:
1. READ THE DAMN RULES.
2. You know what? We're not going to be nice here. That's not how we do it. If someone rips you off, or steals your stuff to claim as their own, it makes you fucking angry. This is a place to rant your ass off, not to try and mollycoddle someone who is a thief.
3. ALL POSTS ARE PUBLIC. MEMBERSHIP, HOWEVER, IS MODERATED. Don't get us wrong--we want you in this community. Unless you are, in fact, a troll. Trolls get a very special post all to themselves, where they will be severely ridiculed for being asshats. Stay the hell out.
EDIT: Yeah, no. LJ TOS and all that jazz.
4. Feel free to post the accusee's name and offense in your rant. I don't care. Just make sure any images bigger than 600x600 pixels go behind an LJ-Cut.
5. Thieves: DO. NOT. START. WARS. Want to talk? Fine. DO IT HERE. Want to spam, and yell, and act like a jackass? Go do it in your own journal. DON'T GO TO THE PERSON WHO CALLED YOU OUT'S JOURNAL AND TROLL THEM. Use your goddamn brain and grow up. They will block and ban you from their journal. It's that easy.
6. Tag your entry with whatever medium you're ranting about. IE Icons, videos, headers, layouts, codes, etc. You get the idea.
7. We aren't iconrants. Don't like a style of icon, or that really annoying texture that's all the rage? That's nice. Don't talk about it here. This isn't the place for it.
8. Points for whoever's post is the most snarky. We like snarky. It's hot.
And, finally:
9. Have a good fucking time. You know you love it.

Apply. You'll be accepted. You'll be kicked out if you turn out to be an asshat. Easy as pie.
Have a question? Contact me at grissoms_csi@hotmail.com. DO NOT GO TO MY JOURNAL. That's my place. E-Mail me instead.

Feel free to pimp the comm around. We would love affiliates and, oh, I don't know, members.