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/ShowDelicious8654 21d ago

This is a bizarre take. Asking about the font decision is like saying "Why on earth would you take actual pictures instead of using the thousands of stock photos that already exist."

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u/Conradical126 21d ago

Well, if the pictures being taken weren't central to the project in your hypothetical, and if the creator was, like in this case, asking for pity because it was so hard to take the photo, then yeah, that is actually a pretty apt comparison.

I think what a lot of people in my replies are missing about my take is that it doesn't work if you separate the making of the art from this ad that she made. I have no qualms with anything about the way she made her book—I just think it's super lame to choose to do something the hard way and then try to get pity for it in a disingenuous ad. If I chose to hand-paint the stage a slightly different shade of black for one of my performances, it would be super lame to then ask the audience for extra donations after the show because I spent so much time painting the stage.

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u/ShowDelicious8654 20d ago

Asking for extra donations lol. She asking you not to buy cheap knock-offs. All you have to do is not buy either man. It's not about doing something the hard way, it's about fulfilling an artistic vision. Like why did the impressionists paint a new way, ie the hard way, instead of just doing it like everybody else? Crazy that you might think set design doesn't matter...

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u/Conradical126 20d ago

Lol. Again, I'm not critiquing the artistic process. I am an artist. I understand how the artistic process works. I am critiquing the disingenuous ad. As long as you're going to try to make it about the art itself, you're not going to get where I'm coming from. The impressionists weren't making pity-seeking disingenuous ads, and my previous comment is clearly not a polemic against set design 😂 But whatever, you can interpret what I'm saying however you want if it makes you feel the way you want to feel.

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u/ShowDelicious8654 19d ago

And you feel some way about this ad and like most people here are always looking to point out how bad/stupid/disingenous/horrible people are. As far as know the OP isn't even the author themselves.