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Examining Plagiarism in Influencer Culture

I knew one day that the internet would come for this serial content stealer and gaslighter because I was her first ever victim so if you haven't seen Taylor's video she talks about how this girl yui cha has been building an entire platform in the hundreds of thousands of followers often plagiarizing her content and that of other creators verbatim and when I say verbatim I mean word for word mannerism for mannerism frame for frame verbatim basically wearing their skin from this plagiarized content yui has received recognition accolades even getting on [ __ ] like Instagram's best creators list or whatever where this gets real creepy is if you go through her platforms you can see that every few months or so yui picks a new main target or victim and she's been doing this for years again how do I know this because I was her first ever main target victim in 2020 and I've been quietly observing her ever since so if you want to hear all about my psycho ass gaslighting ass experience with her and all the dirt I've gathered watch the next videos I was the first ever victim of a serial content sealer and a gaslighter who built her large platform off of plagiarizing other creators and before I get into all the dirt my gaslighting psycho ass experience and confrontation with her let me give you some insight on just how intimate the influencer Creator world is and how we're always keeping notes when you're in this world and everyone's an influencer Creator an entertainment you all learn and recognize each other's distinct Styles a video formats just ways of saying stuff and phrasing thoughts you can just smell just by scrolling and watching One video whether someone was inspired by you doing their own thing or trying to wear your skin yui like with all the creators that followed after me was trying to deskin me and re-wear my skin as her own all while being literal mutuals with me on every single platform by the way now that got a little contacts that I don't know maybe not everyone needs I'm going to show you guys all the receipts and the side by sides in the next video hi I'm v i was the first ever victim of a serial content sealer and gaslighter who built her huge platform off of plagiarizing other creators let's get to the receipts shall we back in 2020/2021 I put out a viral multi-part video series called bad [ __ ] confidence tips and you guys might have seen it it went super viral and it were all my original thoughts and phrasing I used my friend/ mutual's original sound that just come out I edited and moved in them a certain way and I was super proud of these videos they were one of the best manifestations at the time of My self-improvement Kind of self- Love digital big sis Mission a couple weeks later I'm scrolling my feet and I see this unfortunately she has wiped the original original copies of my videos because I started R daming her and she got spooked and started changing elements and deleting videos oh my God oh my God [Music] but when I tell you they were verbatim copies of my videos they were identical in every single aspect at this point I'm like trying to give her a pass because I figure oh she knows we're Mutual she can't be stupid enough to plagiarize my videos but after she uploads like three or four identical plagiarized videos one by one after I post each of mine one by one I'm like what the literal [ __ ] so I go confront her and what becomes the most psycho ass gaslighting ass confrontation conversation I've ever seen I was the first ever victim of a serial content stealer and gaslighter and these are the details of our psycho ass gaslighting as confrontation just as a refresher yui cha plagiarized word for word movement for movement a mannerism for mannerism an entire video series of mine and has been doing this to other main target SL victims for many years so I send yui's own real to herself in an Instagram DM and I'm like hey girl what this yui responds hey I'll make sure to credit you if I'm inspired and I'm like oh okay so this is how it's going to go down I start laying into her more and say this remember we are mutuals y'all we were also friendly and like commenting on each other's stuff and like daming before all this hence the I considered you an internet Friend by the way during all this she's ignoring all my DMs and in real time posting more plagiarized videos but tagging me this time after I say I don't want to take this public just to make her respond she responds with this she says I'm not coming to her in good faith she mansplains to me how content creation works like a toddler oh my God I'm getting heated it again keep in mind at this time I had an entire social media career creating self-improvement digital big sist content I had over a million followers meanwhile she had like 2K you can pause to read this segment of her response big disclaimer a lot of this conversation is missing because because before I had the chance to screenshot all of them she blocked me on literally every single platform but essentially she sent me a bunch of more essays essentially accusing me of using my influencer power to bully a working college student busy with finals I'm not going to lie this situation really really affected me because one she was someone I knew I mean she loved bond to me so I should have known better I guess two I was just not as strong back then and after this I really started second guessing myself like oh maybe I am the crazy one and three I was super proud of that video series being Tik tok's digital big sister and this experience just kind of Tainted it I was really never the same afterwards moral of the story watch out for yui cha and anyone like her because they'll copy your life and then make you feel crazy about it