hello, members of kpop/enhypen community! my name is tori and I am the owner of the jjk-centered blog @kenntoria. please read this if you care about content theft and plagiarism!!
after thinking long and hard about this(not that long, okay) i have decided that bringing attention to this situation was the right thing to do. now, let me start by saying that i mention in my pinned post that my works are not to be plagiarized, but I guess it wasn’t clear enough which brings us all here:
not even a week ago, on july 23, i received an ask from anon asking if i own a certain blog since there is a fic very similar to mine and anon also linked the post. same anon then sent another ask with another link to a different post of the same writer. the blog is named @okwonyo !
i’ll link the fics here(had to unblock the author to do that): “confession” and “dreamer”.
and the works that they were “inspired by” are: “flirting” and “shaving nanami”.
now, the posts were uploaded on july 21 and jul 10, notably later than my works, and if it weren’t for anon i wouldn’t even have known about anything, because i don’t lurk around the enhypen tag. if you want to, you can read works and connect the dots, but i am gonna present the similarities and explain why i, and many others, think it’s blatant plagiarism rather than inspiration(red is marking her work and blue is marking mine), you can read the whole thing too if you’d like ofc, i highlighted everything that would guide to see the problem, but please read everything.
this is from “dreamer” and “shaving nanami” fics. you can see that there is similar pacing, and some of the sentences are structured the same way, using the same words, minimal changes applied. and yeah, you can say that the writer added the “dreaming about marrying you” thing to her work but it doesn’t change the fact that this whole thing was basically ripped off. then, let’s get to the “confession” fic that has like a sequence of sentences taken from my fic, despite the plot being a little different in her fic, but the whole “not noticing the flirting thing” was taken from me. i wouldn’t really call that inspiration if you just take the sentences and literally put them in your fic. would you? :)
(mind you, this is my first time dealing with things like this, which is not an excuse, bur rather an explanation as to why i handled this situation poorly at first.)
now, with these out of the way, let’s discuss what i talked about with the owner of the @/okwonyo, or “jiah”. i sent an ask since i didn’t follow her and couldn’t message her, and we had a civil conversation about these works. i’m sorry i don’t have screenshots but it’s because the chat is no longer available to me(she blocked me from her sideblog which she used for chat with me @okwonyos).
she did apologise and offered to link the fics(or even take them down!) but i, admittedly, was a bit distracted with in real life issues and dismissed by saying that she could just tag me, which of course was my fault. when i said that i thought she would say “inspired by bla bla bla” but she just literally tagged me in the end of posts(mind you, there were 4 posts and she tagged me only in these 2 hah) and when i noticed and decided to ask her to take the posts down like she offered in the beginning because it would just be easier and would make me comfortable enough. she insisted that she likes those works a lot and me, being the pushover i am, relented and thought “well alright at least her readers will stay happy” and allowed her to link my stuff in her post, although she again mentioned me only at the end when i asked her to do it in the beginning of the post. i didn’t really care that her notes were in the end, not really.
come to find our, there were another 2 fics, that i didn’t know about until she mentioned me.
oblivious and promises, which are “inspired” again by my fics: oblivious reader and beauty marks.
was she gonna mention these if i hadn’t texted her again a while later about her poor credit giving style? i don’t think so, buddy. anyways, i read the fics briefly and was baffled by the similarities i saw. granted, i will mention that the “oblivious” fic by her resembles an “inspiration” a lot more than other fics since there are added elements like the characters being childhood friends and confession scene and all that — but still, there is whole beginning of the fic that she basically reworded from mine(was it necessary to even use the message with emoji thing…):
for the “promises” fic… bruh, the pacing, the whole dialogue, the similarities, literally whatever happens between the reader and that male character are taken from my fic and reworded and posted as original before i dm’ed the author. which pisses me off, because if she had mentioned me from the beginning and if i considered it plagiarism it just would have been a lot more telling about this author’s intentions — they wouldn’t have been able to act nonchalantly, you know what i mean?
now, eventually, i sent the author some texts about how just taking paragraphs and changing them a little doesn’t look much like an inspiration and asked to take the posts down(if i remember correctly) and she went defence mode and me? i was too tired with my irl issues to attempt anything more after a string of messages pointing out that she didn’t “copy and paste” and she added her own details and plots to the fic. so i went with something like okay whatever i hope you learn from your mistake and bye and she happily replied “feel free to block me” which irked me.
it irked me to the point that after blocking her i didn’t feel relief or like a “winner” but more like i played right into her hand, which should have been the signs that this was not the right way to end things.
now, jiah, did you think it was over? i did think i’d just be mulling over this for a while and hoping other people don’t steal my stuff, but see it’s not me who noticed it, i was unaware — it was other people, several people, who noticed you just taking writing as your own and ignoring being “inspired” by me until you were reminded that yes, you did it wrong. and you have to understand what you did was wrong and accept it.
and you had to be the one to address it to your readers because me, i did address it and i asked my readers and followers to not even say anything to you and not go into your inbox — but something tells me you would have just ignored them and turned off anon asks.
you may ask: tori, why are you posting this almost a week later? well, i’m not gonna lie i have been thinking about this whole situation a lot and how i didn’t do it right and didn’t feel satisfied. and thanks to my beautiful readers and anons who felt injustice and confirmed my thoughts i have been finally pushed to act on this.
look, i have nothing to gain from this… i don’t need like the undying love of enhypen fans or to turn anyone against her, but jiah, gotta respect me, no? do i really need your credits after you posted your post like 10 days ago and was going to act like nothing happened until confronted? i really don’t lol, i just want to have peace and i want every anon and every person who sent me an ask about it and showed me immense support to be relieved that kpop community knows what’s going on.
and i’m bringing awareness to this because i am sure that plagiarism here is really common and i have been lucky to be struck by it only for the first time.
now, do what you will with all of this info.
thank you for reading this and have a good rest of your day!!
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a/n: quickest drabble i wrote in my LIFE perhaps in 15mins im bored dawg
warnings: none
wc: short
heeseung wipes the corner of his lips as he felt the stinging sensation of raindrops landing against his skin. what was once the blue glaze of sky soon turned into the dark hover of clouds, the sun no longer gracing itself amongst the heavens above.
it’s been a long time since heeseung felt himself under the rain, slowly feeling the weight of his clothes become heavier and heavier, his hair drenched and his vision became blurrier the more he stands out on the open road. though something about the rain felt like a warm embrace to him, a breath of fresh air– it could only leave a smile on his face.
what was it about the rain that heeseung liked so much? was it because it reminded him of sunghoon? his childhood best friend, where he would play with for hours, jumping into puddles which would splash onto their shirts. was it because it reminded him of his best friend in high school, jake? a time where they would be caught late to school due to rain, unable to waste time any longer– with backpacks above their heads, running as quickly as they could to the school gates; what was once their white shoes turned muddy in an instant, their uniform soaked through. or was it because it reminded him of band mate, jay? who he was once caught busking in the middle of the street– who somehow had an eye for heeseung’s talent as he borrowed his vocals, strumming along the strings of his guitar, creating beautiful melodies of composition.
though there were so many memories that he cherished with the rain, there was one that he will never forget. the one with you, where you found him alone sitting on the sidewalk with his head down. the rain was pouring a lot heavier than the past few weeks with no sign of stopping, there was not a single shelter nearby. but you, stood there with an umbrella above his head, not caring if your backpack nor shoulder was wet– instead you sat right next to him, all in comfortable silence.
you didn’t have to do this, you were only someone he had class with. and yet, the kind gesture had him lifting his head, eyes red and swollen with the shadowed tears he had been letting out but he had to take a closer look at you. and of course, you were beautiful.
even with the rain that decorates the scenery behind you, you were like the sun. heeseung never knew that such a small gesture could evoke so many unspoken feelings.
perhaps this is what love at first sight felt like?
but all was history as that very night he walked your home, you let him in to dry himself. you were never the type to be so forward, but yet something about heeseung’s yearning eyes, strung you along. to help him, to hear him, to embrace him.
and so you did.
as heeseung stares up at the sky once more, and once again the rain showed no signs of stopping– he couldn’t bring his feet to find a place to shelter himself. because the rain welcomes him, it presents itself with memories that he will also keep close to his heart. just like now.
“heeseung! you’ll catch a cold!” he recognises the bright familiar voice as he turns to face you, a smile adorning his face as he watches you run over to him, an umbrella in hand.
you gave him a quick peck on the cheek as you handed him your umbrella, intertwining you fingers as you look up at him. his eyes full of adoration.
oh my goodness it has been four whole months since i posted 😭😭
well life has been busy and the thing i have not been doing is writing but i do have life updates if anyone gaf (pls gaf they are fun happy things i wanna share)
so in the course of the 4 months i was gone (calculating… so like since december) i have seen enhypen irl for a total of SEVEN times 😭😭😭 yeah insanity i tell you (i was in a state of i Need to See Enhypen I NEED to attend the fate tour AGAIN. so i did) and i also went to see seventeen’s concert too like these past 4 months was work and watching concerts how fun
speaking of the fate tour i took a selfie with SUNOO YALL (like the send off) like who would’ve KNOWN WHO WOULD’VE KNOWN I WOULD BE HERE EVERYDAY I CHECK MY PHONE BOOM SUNOO AND ME DAWGGGG (ok calm it’s been like a month now since this happened)
anyways these are happy things i wanna share ! im also seeing ive in a few months life has been life-ing
But Onto REAL business! CICI WHEN ARE U GOING TO WRITE AGAIN? honestly, still no clue! i want to post labyrinth so bad but nothing is really progressing from my wee lil brain 😭 ill get there eventually though! but i did have a spurt of desire to write again after looking at my own bookshelf today
ok this is getting so long ! i kinda miss this place ngl but i needed a break
hi, someone has posted a spanish translation of your work to wattpad: wattpad . com/1373054860-%F0%9D%97%95%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%97%B1-%F0%9D%97%A7%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%97%B2-%F0%9D%97%9F%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%B4%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%98%81-%E2%9A%A1%EF%B8%8E%F0%9D%98%9A%F0%9D%98%92%F0%9D%98%A1-%F0%9D%98%9A%F0%9D%98%9B%F0%9D%98%9C%F0%9D%98%8D%F0%9D%98%8D%E2%9A%A1%EF%B8%8E-%EF%BD%A1%E2%86%B7-%F0%9D%95%BD%F0%9D%96%8A%F0%9D%96%86%F0%9D%96%88%F0%9D%96%99%F0%9D%96%8E%F0%9D%96%94%F0%9D%96%93-%C2%A1-%E2%80%A2%E0%AC%93-%C2%B0
thank you so much for telling me. this is my first time getting plagiarized so i'm not sure how to proceed but thank you again.
the person posting this on wattpad has been stealing fics and works from multiple writers on tumblr so please, spread this around as much as possible.