I’ve recently discovered that some of my writing – to include this post (which I’ve now removed) have been plagiarized by others and at least one “Swift-tok” content creator. I’m super disappointed in this, but not exactly surprised. As a result, I’m removing much of my original content from my website, in terms of analysis and/or my creative writing until/unless content creators can give credit to those who inspire or contribute to their content.
As an English major, there were often times when a line in someone else’s analysis of a novel or poem inspired a research paper or my own analysis. But that credit was given. A group of my favorite SwiftTok creators will usually credit each other for ideas they may expound upon in their own videos. The last video I saw from this person she absolutely has not credited anyone for her ideas and used some of my content, word for word. Homey don’t play that.
So…if you come back for more or you saw a snippet of this and thought you’d use it . . . this is my message to you – credit writers, artists or other content creators if you use their work. If you’re here from an image search, I’m sorry I don’t have more to share. But I won’t have my words stolen because someone is trying to make cash on TT, from posting content and they don’t have their own original thoughts about such content.
You should be more careful about plagiarism because you may be copying one of your followers.
Finally, it’s very anti-Swiftian, to do something like this. As they say in my professional circles, “Go pound sand.
From The Black Dog Variant (CD) of TTPD…
Writing in the Margins 