Jack Monroe #440 Gently navigating the hinterland of plagiarism

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Jelly Bean

Jelly Bean

CabalofBolorneaise said:
I think she’s in too deep now and she knows stopping the Patreon won’t make it go away, so at least this way she probably figures she’s getting money from it.

If she’d stopped it when she realised (from here!) she didn’t stand a chance of catching up, way before Twitter picked it up, I think she’d have got away with the whole thing… I don’t think her backstory discrepancies would have been enough by themselves to gain traction, and the Lee A fundraising would have been buried by the people who hate him so much they couldn’t see anything else. The Patreon is what broke the camels back, and she’s got nobody but herself to blame.
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Her arrogance lead her assume she could do absolutely nothing for years toward patreon and it would carry on as normal. She was right tbh.
Last night I was watching a NI youtuber with about 750 patrons. She hasn't done anything on it for a couple of months due to personal circumstances. But on a recent video thanked her patrons, acknowledged it was a major source of income and promised Q & A's just for them with other exclusive interviews. And her lowest official tier is £1. Personally I don't get why anyone would, but as long as the recipient is honest and open, then each to their own.
Jack completely over promised things, then didn't have the gumption or humility to pare it all down and make it manageable. For two years.
 
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PummelMyPumble

PummelMyPumble

Valiofthedolls said:
She didn’t even need to stop it! She could have posted a mea culpa about the physical rewards being too much for her (and let’s face it everyone else, NOBODY, not even the most ardent fan needs or wants that much Jack crap) and that she was switching to digital ones, then chuck them something digital once a month.

That’s literally all the lazy selfish entitled mare has ever had to do. She can’t even be fucked to do that though.
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Or in Jack’s case, a ME ME MEa Culpa.
 
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MediaMonkey

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Maria1212 said:
I don't have anything to add other than I feel like surely it's illegal on some level for her to have patreon subscriptions of up to £44 a month still open and advertising it "It's not a donation service, there's a reward at every tier, so it's more like a subscription for some goodies as well as exclusive behind the scenes content, musings, sneak peeks at upcoming bits and pieces, and more." Can action not be taken against her? That's literally fraud

Sorry probs stating the obvious but i cannot quite believe shes allowed to get away with this lol

How long has it been since she sent patrons any monthly goodies?
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The question is did her lies and failure to switch it off 24 times and refusal to refund every day for about 700 days prove dishonest intent. Only a jury can decide that. With the continued lies, refusal to refund, failure to provide goods and taking money whilst being available to swan around to conference and parties, if it was me I would be looking to get as much mitigation and contrition in as possible. Switch it off, refund the lot (with options to repay direct to a foodbank or to me as a donation), and stop posting. Same for charity donations, although I would ask Charity Commission and Fundraising Regulator for guidance to try and get a safe harbour, as they would rather give permission to redirect donations to undo the mess than burn up resource on compliance or enforcement. Providing the goods would waste time needed to establish a new career so doesn't help anyone.
 
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Lucky Escape

Lucky Escape

Switchstreetz said:
Don't forget her story about Marxist Big Dave MBE putting his medals on to watch the Queen's speech 😂 he has LAYERS
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A full-on Marxist-Leninist, if you please. God save the revolutionary vanguard, mass terror, and the dictatorship of the proletariat. And the Queen. Obviously.
 
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Marmalade Atkins

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I want to apologise for missing this photo off the wig collage yesterday.

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Valiofthedolls

Valiofthedolls

Marmalade Atkins said:
I want to apologise for missing this photo off the wig collage yesterday.

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January 2019, don’t think I’d registered that before! Just WTF was LJC thinking?! I’m assuming that as she’s not “deliciously ordinary” she was following Jack on all (or enough of) her socials and could see the entire shitshow Jack continuously unfurls.
 
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Geetbo

Geetbo

Surely she is going to do some promo for Grifty Kitchen? She just keeps retweeting the same post and then flirting with horny dads on twitter.

I think this will be her final book.
 
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Mrs Peel

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Geetbo said:
Surely she is going to do some promo for Grifty Kitchen? She just keeps retweeting the same post and then flirting with horny dads on twitter.

I think this will be her final book.
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Not wearing my glasses - I read that as 'porno'. :oops:
 
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jenny2603

jenny2603

Geetbo said:
Surely she is going to do some promo for Grifty Kitchen? She just keeps retweeting the same post and then flirting with horny dads on twitter.

I think this will be her final book.
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The memoir is still showing on Amazon. I'm nearly as obsessed with that as I am with Iqbal. I just can't believe we've come this far and the result is I get cheated out of what would probably be the funniest book ever written.
 
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Hollaaa

Hollaaa

jenny2603 said:
The memoir is still showing on Amazon. I'm nearly as obsessed with that as I am with Iqbal. I just can't believe we've come this far and the result is I get cheated out of what would probably be the funniest book ever written.
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Jack Monroe: My Downfall (an adaptation of the film, please).
 
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Lucky Escape

Lucky Escape

Geetbo said:
Surely she is going to do some promo for Grifty Kitchen? She just keeps retweeting the same post and then flirting with horny dads on twitter.

I think this will be her final book.
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I think her most recent contract with Bluebird was supposed to cover three books - household tips, her pov story, and whatever-it-is she's supposed to be writing about post-GFC austerity policy. I wouldn't want to bet on that contract ever being carried out in full, though...

Mind you, 'Untitled Jack Monroe Memoir - 14 Sept. 2023' is still listed on Amazon, for whatever that's worth.
 
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witchofwestbyfleet

Geetbo said:
Surely she is going to do some promo for Grifty Kitchen? She just keeps retweeting the same post and then flirting with horny dads on twitter.

I think this will be her final book.
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To produce cookbooks you have to write recipes and she can’t be arsed to do that. Although ostensibly she still has “A Girl Called Slop” coming out next year
 
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