#the etiquette of respect; mutual aid; support; encouragement; and letting people own their works has to endure though

RE: user malakiwi's "plagiarism" claims

Recently, user @malakiwis has claimed that they were plagiarized by another fic writer. This is false.

HERE is the drive with all of the evidence documenting malakiwi (kai's) plagiarism. The drive contains downloaded versions of their fic, along with videos proving that it is their fic. The drive also contains a document with screenshots and detailed explanations of many of the fics they plagiarized, along with proof of their plagiarism.

There were a total of 7 fics that we could prove were plagiarized.

With Kai's claims that these other stories were plagiarized from them, we wanted to make sure that the authors they stole from were being fairly represented in this process, and that the theft and hurt were being addressed rather than hidden in private conversations and deleted stories.

This post was solely made in response to Kai making it public, as we had wanted to keep things private and out of the spotlight.

ALSO NOTE: PLEASE do not witchhunt kai. This is meant to spread awareness about fandom etiquette, and fan culture etiquette, and to shed light on Kai's blatant plagiarism against particular authors, not to "expose" or "cancel them". Do not send them or any of the authors listed in here hate. Witch hunts and hatred solve nothing. I and everyone else who worked on this tirelessly for the past week do not condone any form of hate messages or posts. This is meant to spread fandom wide awareness.

In their original post, Kai also claims to have spoken to the author - this is false, as we have spoken to the actual author who has no recollection of ever speaking to Kai.

Thank you to everyone who worked with me over the past few (very stressful) days to help put this all together- @elysiren @spacexcowgirl @wormtitty @magswrite @buttfaceingtons

#art theft #please reblog even if you aren't in these fandoms #i think there is great benefit from sharing this info--not just so other potential victims can be ID'd #but also to make it incredibly clear to people who are new to fandom #that orphaned works; anon works; and indeed works that are simply not cross-posted to other platforms #are NOT free game for someone to scoop them up and repost them elsewhere #do not hunt or attack or harass anyone involved here; there's enough grief going around #plagiarism #is a growing plague within fandom frankly because of the influx of new folks #it is good and healthy for any system to have new blood pumping through it and we built old fandom for new fandom to prosper #the etiquette of respect; mutual aid; support; encouragement; and letting people own their works has to endure though #if you get caught out on something like this it's also important for your own growth that you own up to it and simply stop #rather than getting overly defensive and/or making sock accounts and digging your hole deeper #we simply have to make it clear that this is unacceptable across all fandom #after all we're not a bunch of Elon-coded tech bros who can't take an L or even an ounce of criticism lmao