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Internet Impersonations
Finally, a serious topic.
What is it about the relative anonymity and largeness of the Internet that makes people believe they can get away with using someone else’s picture as a mask or, in my eyes even worse, blatant plagiarism.
I mean, seriously, even considering the gigantic size of the internet, with the speed at which information travels, it is possibly EASIER now to catch these imposters that are trying to do these heinous crimes.
Maybe it’s just me.
You might be wondering what has caused me to go into this self-righteous tirade… So let me tell you.
Yesterday, not once, but TWICE I got notice of two different people using something that was MOST DEFINATELY mine and calling it their own.
Case Example #1
‘REIKO’ aka MMORPG imposter – FFXI
A couple months back I had a friend IM me out of nowhere after 3 years of not talking to me to ask if I played FFXI (Final Fantasy XI). Of course, I replied truthfully, “No.”
“Weird. I think someone’s using your picture on this forum.”
“WHAAAT?”– After seeing this, I immediately signed up for the forum, wrote a note on the page and notified the administrators. The picture was taken away.
Case Example #2
‘REIKO’ aka MMORPG imposter (AGAIN!) – WOW
Yesterday I got an IM from someone I didn’t know. They said something along the lines of “Do you play WoW?” Again, I replied truthfully, “No.”
“Weird. I think someone’s using your picture on this forum.”
“WHAAAT?”
Ok, I really don’t know what I can do at this point. I want to do something evil, but there’s no way that I can find this girl. It makes me wonder how many MMORPG sites I’m actually on.
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Case Example #3
AznCutiePie4eva aka AznPlagiarizer4eva
Give her 0 e-props.
It’s funny, because I got notification that there was somebody out there who had a post that was remarkably similar to my “Kim’s Socially correct Greetings”.
Remember this post anybody? 
it was only like, last week.
So anyhow, I went to this site, and lo and behold!!
All look same!
Well, not exactly, she actually took the time to get rid of the “Kim” part, and she also added another, 7th greeting (a TOTALLY ugly imitation of my beautiful stick figures, I might add) with the tree to boot.
However, as i read and re-read this entry, there was no sign anywhere of crediting me as the original author. So sad, but true.
The funny part was that the images themselves were still directly linked from my server. So, being the passive agressive bitch I am, instead of actually confronting her about it, I decided to play a little game I call “How many times a day does she look at her site?
I replaced ALL the images that were being taken (Wow, she was even using bandwidth that I pay for!)… So the site ended up looking something like this:
Oh yeah baby. Divine retribution. Revenge = Sweet.
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The funny thing is, right afterwards, she tried to make nice with me by commenting with this:
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oops sry for not crediting at the end of my post, didn’t really think of it at the time…anyways, how’d you make those gifs? i was thinking flash, but i’m so computer illiterate i wouldn’t know one program from another..haha |
…right. She had the time to think of taking my name off, and to add another greeting and DRAW it, but she didn’t think of crediting me? Ha.
Likely story. Really, how stupid does she think I am?
Sorry, biatch! No eprops for you!
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