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Hot take but authors should be cancelled for plagiarism. Like no one should read their book.
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Anonymous 8w

If I can be suspended in college for it, most definitely

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Anonymous 8w

*cough* powerless *cough*

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Anonymous 8w

I didn’t know this was a hot take …. 😳 I completely agree with this take

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Anonymous 8w

how is this in anyway a hot take

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Anonymous 8w

Then every romance novel would be cancelled since they contain the same theme

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

*in any way

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

A lot of people don’t care. “All books copy eachother” is a frequent excuse.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

I’ve definitely heard that with like derivative works, but never for anyone who outright plagiarized. That’s stupid. There’s a difference between taking inspiration from a work, or even being extremely derivative of it, and full on plagiarism

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Lauren Robert’s outright plagerized from RQ, with even some sentences being exactly the same. People tend to defend Powerless regardless.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Powerless, Crave, etc are still very popular and have tons of defenders. Sorry you haven’t been paying attention but this is a legit problem.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

Oh yeah I knew about those, hadn’t heard people use the “books are similar” argument but I’ve only seen people criticizing Powerless

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Anonymous replying to -> isthisreallythelife 8w

Exactly

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 8w

theme ≠ plagiarism

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

i personally loved powerless but because i never read RQ so i had nothing to compare it to, most defenders prob have that pov which is obv just user error and being ill informed

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

I’ve unfortunately attempted to read both. Couldn’t deal with all the cringe and plagiarism so I had to stop reading Powerless almost immediately.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 7w

Expelled too depending on severity and it goes on your record. Idk how it wouldn’t be like that in the publishing world. It’s insane to me that there aren’t more cases of caught plagiarism especially in the age of social media

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