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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-08-12 03:51 pm

[ SECRET POST #3874 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3874 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 57 secrets from Secret Submission Post #554.
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(Anonymous) 2017-08-12 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember sitting on the sidelines for something similar in one of my fandoms, where this girl had vaguebloged about how someone who everyone thought was so great, had bullied her friend out of the fandom, but since they were popular and didn't post any info about the person they'd bullied everyone would take their side and they were so evil...

Their friend who'd been "bullied" had plagiarized a bunch of stories from the BNF and several other writers, and the BNF had privately messaged her asking that she take the plagiarized stories down, and notified some other authors whose work she thought she recognized.

The girl doing the vagueblogging just seemed young and resentful that fandom fame wasn't an equally apportioned resource, but I guess she only vagueblogged publically; privately she flipped out at all her followers and friends about the BNF until the BNF finally said, basically, "okay "username," I'm gonna take a break from fandom until you calm down, it's not exactly fun for me right now," on their blog, with a brief explanation of what had happened and that the plagiarizer had asked that the BNF not say anything so long as they took down the stolen stories.

So the vagueblogging friend had actually done more damage to the plagiarizer's reputation than the BNF; she'd been mentioning her by username all over the place. Before all this went down, I used to swing by the vagueblogger's blog occasionally because sometimes she had interesting info, but she also posted about being "friends" with one of the actors the fandom was about, because they knew her name and would greet her by it at fan events. And she would freak out about crazy fans having no boundaries, and eventually I stopped visiting her blog because it was clear she didn't have many, either.