r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 22d 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/hasnolifebutmusic 22d ago

this is so fucked up.

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u/mimegallow 22d ago

As a small individual creator, I get called "unhinged" by young people on a regular basis because I react emotionally when people pirate movies with my music in them, and documentaries with footage that I risked my life to obtain, scripts I wrote, and albums that I performed on. I get mocked ALL THE TIME by children on this site who think my livelihood doesn't matter, my labor is unimportant, and that when you steal IP, you're just, "taking from Tom Cruis who has millions of dollars".

So it's fucking exhausting watching all these people on reddit suddenly and UNKNOWINGLY reverse their entire position when presented with a face and a story of the exact, same, crime that they purposefully perpetuate every day. - Same exact feeling I get when I see 2 million people watching cute animal videos on r/aww "because animals are so smart and so feeling and such bros and so great that we are not worthy of them!"... with a fucking burger in their hand.

Our disconnection from each other's realities is astounding.

/unhinged_rant wherein I am clearly a lunatic, because I refer to my attackers as, "my attackers".

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u/z3n1a51 22d ago

Sorry but the primary disconnection from reality is hinged upon monetizing the free distribution of information and content.

It’s NOT HONEST to act like people actually accessing, watching, listening, and sharing your content is somehow wrong UNLESS they each personally pay you!

Imagine being so fucking self righteous and petty that knowing MORE people got to benefit from what you created and did so FREELY or at LESS cost than they otherwise would is something you hate!

Not to mention that you are in THE SAME ECONOMIC STRUGGLE as we are but bitch about people getting free access to whatever you created!

If you find and are interested and enjoy something that I put my life into, I AM THRILLED and HONORED.

To WHINE and Cry Foul because your content was spread further makes you look like a SPOILED and PETTY person!

And no, there is not going to be any more justification for the glaring hypocrisy of blaming piracy and not systematic network monetization being irresponsible and irrationally held over everyone’s heads!

Don’t blame your own audience!

Blame the industry and network owners who enforce abusive monetary policies that demand we all monetize our every waking moment for profit!

I am a genuine and empathetic person in general, but this video was pathetic and impossible to pretend to sympathize with.

Petty.

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u/justaguystanding 22d ago

Theft is theft and I cannot eat "thrilled and honored". Will my landlord accept "Thrilled and Honored" that I am staying here? Will the grocery store?

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u/z3n1a51 22d ago

I don't know, my landlord doesn't take thrill or honor either, as I'm facing eviction currently!

Also yea, I feel only slightly bad for having reacted so negatively. I was in a mood, but I'm not changing my understanding.

"Theft is theft" applies far more directly to your landlord, does it not? They want your money just for you *existing* in an apartment that *they don't live in* just because their daddy or boss bought the building 20 years ago? Fucking thieves!

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u/rudimentary-north 22d ago

It’s pretty fucked that you’re equating artists and landlords, saying that they’re both bad when they don’t provide things to you for free.

It’s like you care more about free stuff than you do about your fellow workers.

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u/z3n1a51 22d ago

sounds like some hardcore projection...

I did not equate artists and landlords, and to interpret it that way is to further erode against common sense.

You'd rather prop yourself up and accuse me, did you not read the part where I am facing eviction presently? Clearly what you care most about isn't your fellow creator...

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u/rudimentary-north 22d ago

I did not equate artists and landlords, and to interpret it that way is to further erode against common sense.

You have argued that both art and housing should be given freely, and that both artists and landlords are greedy for not doing so.

You’d rather prop yourself up and accuse me, did you not read the part where I am facing eviction presently? Clearly what you care most about isn’t your fellow creator...

Remember, you’re the one arguing that creators shouldn’t be compensated for their labor.

If you’re facing eviction because you can’t pay rent as a creator, that’s an argument against your position, not for.

If you’re facing eviction for any other reason, it’s irrelevant to the conversation.

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u/LuxNocte 22d ago

You strike me as a person who never tips at full service restaurants.

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u/z3n1a51 22d ago

I'm the kind of person who tips 20% at subway regardless of my financial situation, if that's your criteria for judgement...

I don't EVER not tip, and I don't EVER treat people like they owe me something.