Anon :D · 5mo
Hi May :)
Thank you (and keres) for taking care of the recent t1/genshin plagiarism case.
I'd like to ask how did you exactly found the original fics. I was also really suspicious when I read the plagiarised stories but could not find the original stories, so it was not possible for me fill a report. I mean, I immediately recognised that the original story was from the genshin fandom because of some used terms, but since I do not play the game, I did not even know which character names were replaced....
Any tips how to find the original fics? I'd like to help with the reporting if something like this happens again in the future (hopefully not)
Oh man... this is awkward... but I'm not May LMAO. Idk I guess you thought I was may based on the screenshots I posted of our DMS, but I'm Z (XiaZia on Ao3 and twitter).
Uh, in terms of figuring out which fics were plagiarized and stuff, Keres google searched passages of the fic with quotations (used to search specific stuff), and it brought up matching results, and then they just compared the two.
I also hope this stuff doesn't happen in the future 😅 as a fic writer I can understand the amount of effort and time funnelled into fics, and it's disheartening to see people think it's okay to steal months of effort for themselves. If you want to tell a story it's always better to do it yourself, regardless of what quality you perceive the result to be. An original is a thousand times more precious than a copy.
Hope this answers your question :)
