[ SECRET POST #4344 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4344 ⌋

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06. https://66.media.tumblr.com/41ffc3efc1e1ac678420f43c859586c7/tumblr_inline_pifq8vcimZ1r7tf68_540.png

[(Anonymous)]

I too have characters that looks like an offbrand knockoff of a more famous character. No one has mentioned it to me yet, but if they did, I wonder how I'd react. Definitely not with indignation, but perhaps instead coyly.

I've seen my own fair-share of official media pull of ripoffs of already existing characters in more shallow and exploitative ways. In terms of that I think I'm alright with just having fun making silly stories for myself on the internet. No shame.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't personally care if it happens to me all yhat much but... eh.
In some cases, it gets done to characters that have a fairly generic look -like in original stories that take place in a normal modern world setting and it's just, say, some short+brown haired blue eyed dude - and it's just silly because there are hundreds of characters who look like that.
I also generally often don't see what use it is to mention these things. I mean, other than insinuating that someone plagiarized another character, what purpose does it serve to tell a creator "hey, your OC looks sooo much like this existing character"?

[(Anonymous)]

Creators are FULLY aware that nobody means to offend with those comments.

But it is a special kind of hurt to hear what boils down to "the best thing I can say about your work is that it's a bootleg of a more famous work"

[(Anonymous)]

I once drew a robot dog and no joke, about half of the comments I got were people saying it reminded them of some other robot dog they'd seen in a cartoon or a game or whatever. None of said robots even had remotely similar designs to mine, people just kept jumping on the chance to inform me that robot dogs are a thing they know. That got old pretty fast.

[(Anonymous)]

It's because they want to feel special and super duper original and creative and being informed that other people had the same idea before them is apparently offensive.

[(Anonymous)]

Probably the most annoying example of this I've ever seen was an artist on DA, years ago, who had an original story set during the Age of Sail (I think about 1780?). The protagonists were a foppish blond pirate, a disgraced British noble and very gay; and his favourite nemesis, a stern brunet naval officer with no sense of humour and little patience for this criminal flirting with him.
The artist in question got very cross with anyone who brought up the Cold War manga From Eroica, With Love, which chiefly focuses on *drumroll* a foppish blond thief, a disgraced British noble and very gay; and his favourite nemesis, a stern brunet NATO officer with no sense of humour and little patience for this criminal flirting with him.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh damn yeah, I remember her. She was ridiculous.

[(Anonymous)]

screaming

I had forgotten about her!!! Ohhhh man, good times.

[rosehiptea]

Recently I wrote a fic and found the exact same premise in a novel published a few days later. And it was something very specific, not just a general theme or trope. I wound up putting a note on the fic that it was a coincidence, though it was a pretty weird coincidence.

As for characters, it depends. Usually I don't mind people making a comparison, unless they're implying that the character is just a total rip-off.

[(Anonymous)]

I can imagine it gets tiring if people do it all the time, though, and expect to be patted on the head for being clever.

[(Anonymous)]

Wrong picture.
I may hate Naruto, but the one thing that remained great was the artistry. There really is no two characters who look alike in that series. Even with how far down the gutter its storyline fell, the characters/art style remained crisp and diverse...

I'm totally missing the point, I'm sure. But hey, here's what I have to say regardless of whatever!!?

[(Anonymous)]

what the fuck does that have to do with anything

[(Anonymous)]

If you love the artistry so much you'd have noticed the small but random changes to the character in this picture meant to be an OTT example of "I changed three tiny details of an existing character design, but it's totally a super original OC of mine, design (co) me, don't steal!!!11".

[(Anonymous)]

This reminds me of all these fandom artist who start venturing into OC territory and they start getting butthurt when people start pointing out that their OC looks like a canon character.

I never understood why they get so butthurt considering most of their followers only followed them for their fanart, not original content.