Copycat Insta Posts

[Bird Lady]

Either they’ve changed the caption or someone’s pinched the photo View attachment 17989

That’s their other page. That was the original quote but then a second page was created and the caption was changed

Either they’ve changed the caption or someone’s pinched the photo View attachment 17989

Also... I need to know these finding skills.

 

[GiveMyHeadPeace]

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This is the sort of thing I’m talking about

I haven’t come across anything like that but yes, it’s word for word! Unless matalan told them what to write seeing as it’s an ad?

 

[ISeeYou]

Ive seen this happen! I used to follow an account that I noticed after a while had completely copied another page I followed down the every detail it was actually creepy how much her pictures looked alike, then she started buying followers obviously to make her account bigger so she looked like the original page or something, must have very lonely lives to have the time to be such stalkers, should just get some originality!!

 

[Foobar]

Gonna start this thread up as it went quiet and I thought it would of gotten juicy lol.... anyone going to name a few ?

It got stilted as the OP wouldn’t actually say who the copycat was

 

[Barbs14]

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This is the sort of thing I’m talking about

That picture from the frugality is from June last year. What’s the date of the other accounts post?

 

[Bird Lady]

That picture from the frugality is from June last year. What’s the date of the other accounts post?

Recent. 6 weeks old at most

 

[barrrlohflaughs]

That’s their other page. That was the original quote but then a second page was created and the caption was changed


Also... I need to know these finding skills.

Ah yes! Found it now

 

[Bird Lady]

So I’ve stumbled across a new page. The owner is trying desperately to be an influencer but she herself is too influenced. So much so, she’s copying posts from more established influencers (MOD is one) word for word.
Thoughts?

 

[Barbs14]

Shocking!

 

[Foobar]

What’s the insta handle?

 

[Mayday]

Kind of an old one but there was a girl called simply_kenna (think she goes by cosykitsune now) and lunestelle. Lunestelle got accused of copying simply_kenna a lot, to the point it did feel a bit like a single white female situation. Every time Kenna changed her style and Instagram feed, Lunestelle would too. They had all the same interests too, but then most were stuff that an average 20 something prob likes like Harry Potter, anime etc (this shows some of their similar Insta posts and videos):

It later came out that simply_kenna was a huge plagiarist herself - all of her tattoos were stuff she claimed to have designed but copied off Pinterest, same with some other 'merch' designs she did.

 

[Bird Lady]

The "Just be you" print made me lol the irony maybe it's a parody account? Doubtful though...

Oh me as well!

Is there a way of searching the written content to see if it has been copied or is it just a case of searching through accounts you think it might’ve come from?

 

[Bird Lady]

There’s a link in the blurb

 

[Londoner]

I thought that about the rug too. Also have the ‘be kind’ print with the woman

Oh I loathe that rug!
I just don’t get it. Do they all actually like it? Or is it the case of you can’t be an ‘Influencer’ unless you actually have that rug.
‘Be kind print’ Are they trying to convince them self of that I wonder?

 

[Bird Lady]

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There was one a while ago that a travel 'influencer' called dreaming_outloud posted on her story. I think it had the same caption and filter/editing style of blue/orange tones, although the picture was different. She also had a jacket that dreaming_outloud owned. It started with her just complaining about copycat accounts in general and people not being 'original' or 'themselves'.

Anyway rather than contact the girl and say hey can you change it/this looks similar to one of mine, she posted a screenshot from the girl's Instagram (didn't block out her name) on her story calling her out, and a ton of her followers went to attack her to the point she ended up making a new account. It wasn't even an original caption that she came up with tbh - pretty sure it was a quote someone else had said.

I wouldn’t want that to happen. All a bit nasty. But if I stumbled on it via a hashtag then I would assume others could too.
The content isn’t just from one person. There’s MOD copies too.

 

[rocksalt101]

Can you tell us now?