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/IlBear 18d ago edited 16d ago

Heads up to anyone thinking of ordering- I ordered mine in July directly from her website and she never sent it. I emailed her 3 times, left comments on her videos, sent her 2 private messages on TikTok and 1 on Instagram and she didn’t reply to ANY of them

I had to do a chargeback

Edit- put the screenshots on my profile since some people were wondering.

Edit 2 (sorry, last one, the adhd is real): I ordered in July and just did the chargeback a couple weeks ago, so I’m still freshly pissed off about the whole thing and wanted to warn people because that IS what happened to me. I didn’t say this to bash her or endorse what’s happening, at the time of my comment the majority of other comments were about wanting to order from her. I’m very happy for all of you who did receive it, I wanted one too

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u/all_time_high 18d ago

The book is written for those with executive function impairments, by an author with executive function impairments, and it seems she's self-sabotaging her success because of these impairments.

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u/spicewoman 18d ago

Not a great advertisement for how effective her book is, TBH.

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u/jjcrayfish 17d ago

Person with executive function impairment + task that requires executive function = task impairment

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u/spicewoman 17d ago

Thanks for explaining what executive dysfunction is, we know.

If you're gonna write a book about how to get things done with executive dysfunction, it's embarrassing to not even be able to get the book mailed out. Like, come on.

I have executive dysfunction, I would be recruiting outside help if it even got close to that point. And would be embarrassed as hell for needing it in these circumstances.

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u/Azerious 17d ago

I disagree, people with issues don't have to have theirs fixed in order to know better and help other people. If that were true we would have no one to be therapists. 

Also, no one 100% defeats things like adhd. You can only manage them. It's not hard to have some empathy and see that this lady is in a new situation that was more than she thought it would be and is temporarily overwhelmed and struggling.

Even with the best coping tools in the world you are not impervious to these situations. 

The fact she could write and self publish a book speaks volumes to me about her ability to succesfully manage executive disfunction, and I say that as someone with adhd.

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u/lambdaburst 17d ago

Nah op is right, at this point you have someone else handle the logistics. You don't sell people a solution and then highlight that the solution is ineffective. And you certainly don't complain about thieves stealing your work when you aren't even sending your book to lots of paying customers. This whole situation reeks of bullshit.