This is a logical and sensible way of thinking, not something what Melanie does. I would never believe someone as obnoxious as her could write something being worth to publish without stealing ideas or being heavily edited. She has no common sense and no awareness what is ok to do or say.Is plagiarism not a big no no in publishing? It’s an incredibly stupid thing to do when it could end up with the book being pulled at a later point.
It's word for word. It's only a short video but if you keep open the screenshot of her book as you listen to the video it's word for word. Even when the girl Anna momentarily pauses, MM adds ... to emphasize the pause !I haven't had a chance to watch that Anna video yet, Is it actually word for word? Can someone full me in? Even if its not, how fucking shady. Not a creative bone in Mel's body.
Snake behaviour. Thanks for replying. I believe she plagiarized a tumblr quote in her other book too so no suprise.It's word for word. It's only a short video but if you keep open the screenshot of her book as you listen to the video it's word for word. Even when the girl Anna momentarily pauses, MM adds ... to emphasize the pause !
TW for the quotes below…I haven't had a chance to watch that Anna video yet, Is it actually word for word? Can someone full me in? Even if its not, how fucking shady. Not a creative bone in Mel's body.
Really makes me angry. Muppet needs to buy a little bit of decency,respect and soul.TW for the quotes below…
Some side by side comparison
Anna: “if you commit suicide I don’t even know what would happen to you. All I know is what happens to the people around you when you die”
Mel: “if you kill yourself I don’t know what will happen to you when your gone. But I know what will happen to everyone you leave here”
Anna: “it’ll be hard for your family to live normally for a long time. People will miss you a lot”
Mel: “people won’tonly miss you. They won’t know how to carry on with their lives”
Anna: “your family will be really fucking confused and really angry. And really jealous. I’m jealous of everyone who has a sister”
Mel: “people won’t just be sad. They’ll be angry. And jealous. I’m jealous of.. of fucking everyone who has a girlfriend”
Anna: “ it feels like a lot of unnecessary pain and brooding and agonising”
Mel: “you’ll cause a lot of agonising”
It’s beat for beat the same points Anna makes. And like someone else mentioned she even steals the pauses Anna makes
Hopefully she sees it. If I'd SM I would of done the same. Disgraceful.I shared the story to anna's ig
I wish I could take credit but it was actually @dichotomies who found the video, I just watched itTW - suicide
Honestly what she did is akin to what lazy college students do when referencing literature changing a few words but keeping the meaty part.... which is very much plagiarism.
Anna - "if you commit suicide I don’t even know what would happen to you"
Mel - "if you kill yourself I don’t know what will happen to you when your gone"
There's no doubt in my mind she did this throughout college and now in her thirties.
Plagiarism is never okay but as @rattleprattle pointed out to plagiarize someone's trauma for a chapter in a poorly written novel is very low.
I hope she gets called out. I would be reeling if someone used a traumatic time in my life to, word for word take something very difficult and personal from me and pass off as there own words. I'm sure Anna found it incredibly hard to speak about and publish to youtube. What a way to minimise someone else's inspiring MH content to pass off as her own. (MH content that is so desperately needed, no less)
@anon365 thank you for posting this orginally. Im disgusted.
My guess is she'll say it was done subconsciously, as in, she might have seen the video at some point and must've subconsciously remembered it. Which - of course - is bullshit, as she's quoting word by word. She's done this before when she was called out for trying to pass a quote off as her own writing in one of her posts without giving credit, then defended herself by saying she must've read it somewhere years ago and subconsciously remembered it, but that the concept isn't unique, that you can't check every single piece of writing for possible plagiarism, blabla.The worst thing about it is she won't apologize. As per usual. She was called out for not using TW before and said something along the lines of "I'm still learning, thank you for your understanding". She is the ultimate deflector. Even with Fabletics she said she wouldn't comment until she heard from the company. Still radio silent other than saying she'll continue to wear what she has from the brand in order to be sustainable.
If she ever acknowledges the above I can guarantee she'll be all "I'm so sorry you thought I plagiarized that piece from my book. Unfortunately people commit suicide every day. I pulled this writing from my incredibly intelligent brain."
She sickens me
She addresses it in the new video exactly like this. And to top it all off she claims she “manifested” it"I'm so sorry you thought I plagiarized that piece from my book. Unfortunately people commit suicide every day. I pulled this writing from my incredibly intelligent brain."
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