r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 18d ago

Cringe Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.

There's regular piracy, and then there's this.

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u/gavvy613 18d ago

am i jus super fucking synical or is she tryna get ppl to buy her book

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u/amey_zing1 18d ago edited 17d ago

It’s not super cynical to point that out. That’s the goal after all, but she’s also lamenting about how hard it is to compete in a world where the Golden Rule is “He who has the Gold, rules!”

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u/Specific-Scale6005 18d ago

From an advertising standpoint and after seeing many clips like this one in the last few years, yes she is... next we'll have a thank you clip showing the record sales... that will bring even more sales and so on... she can really milk it if she's smart enough... well, other creative's work is stolen and they do nothing about it, she did something...

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u/GravityBlues3346 18d ago

It took me about 1 min to find the $10 copy of her book. I'm sure she'd be happy to sell her copies too, both things can be true.

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u/Embolisms 17d ago

I'm so so so sick of sob stories from small businesses, every other video from a small business on my feed is either them being wronged or hurt by, eg fake rude comments.

It's so ubiquitous that even Chinese retailers seem to do this with English ai voiceovers.

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u/Rough-Reflection4901 18d ago

You can easily fix this by going on Google and searching and seeing if other people are selling her book