Oh cool it looks like @dasharez0ne mastodon.social is blocking people who respond to their posts accusing them of stealing their schtick
(edit, someone else can provide receipts of their stealing; I don't have them but recall finding them convincing when they went by earlier, so I willingly participated in said accusations and am now blocked)
@inquiline This reminds me of an account that’s huge-for-here, with something like 45,000 followers, that I’ve reported multiple times for blatantly and transparently plagiarizing old Twitter posts. Like literally eight out of ten posts of hers that I Googled were originally posted by other people either there or on Reddit. We have a real clout-chasing problem here.
@adamgreenfield@inquiline I never realized it was the same account but yeah every once in a while I'll be like oh, isn't that an old joke from years ago
And not in a "reposted twitter/tumblr/reddit screenshot that the normies are still passing around" way but like in a "copy paste this is mine" way
Also, why would someone clout chase on here of all places
@julieofthespirits@inquiline You know who I mean, then? Yeah, it’s so weird – like, both obvious and also pointless? I guess she gets her jollies that way, she blocked me for calling her on it.
@julieofthespirits@inquiline I really question the values of a person who has to get their affirmation by deceiving people in this way. It seems like such a profound violation of the basic social contract, here especially – the idea that, for better or worse, we’re all going to show up as our own authentic selves, and agree or disagree, like each other or despise each other on that basis.
@julieofthespirits@inquiline What kills me? The people who find her stolen witticisms amusing would still be laffing if she cited the original sources! It takes a lot of effort to collate dad-jokey liberal fodder from across the internet! I’m sure her audience would appreciate that for its own sake, without anyone having to deceive anyone!
"Why would someone clout chase here": same reason as anywhere i.e. dopamine. It's not like you can earn any money or further your career by doing this kind of thing anywhere, even Twitter at its peak. The dasaharezone takeover (by one person who very marginally worked on it from the main person who made it what it was) was different: there was an income stream from its sales of mugs, T-shirts etc.
@richpuchalsky@adamgreenfield@inquiline idk, I mean, as someone who had a fairly popular Twitter account, the dopamine rush here really isn't the same. It's like hash vs dirt weed, you might as well just quit at that point
@richpuchalsky@adamgreenfield@inquiline like there's obviously a lot of people who DO clout chase on here, but being popular on here is like being popular in a small town bar and being popular on Twitter was like being popular in NYC, it's just really not the same
@richpuchalsky@inquiline@julieofthespirits are there? really?? i believe you, i’m just surprised. because it is as you say: “clout” here basically means popularity among catgirls, german cargo-bike enthusiasts and people who know what Figma is.
@inquiline@adamgreenfield@richpuchalsky it's also like people who have long running dramas here...like bitch I had long running dramas with politicians and novelists and influential journalists why am I going to have a long running drama with some random German furry
@inquiline@adamgreenfield Personally, I think of people who post twitter/Tumblr screenshots as performing valuable cultural preservation, but people who steal them without attribution are clout sharks
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