Plagiarizing Etsy – It’s Like Taking Candy from Babies!
Is there anything more important in life than teaching your children how to think independently and to be creative?
As a writer and a blogger, web site designer and most importantly a Chreeshin homeschooling mom, I know how important it is to cite my sources! And I would never want to steal another person’s ideas and pretend that they are my own!
NEVER!
EVER!
Because that would be a filthy lie!
UNLESS OF COURSE…
We are talking about my super creative, independent thinking and incredibly entrepreneurial home-schooled children!
Then all bets are off!
If my daughter wants to copy a card design from an Etsy artist in every single detail from the illustrations to the word choices to the super cute rounded corners and then post step by step instructions on how to make those exact copies on her Auntie Ree Ree’s famous blog – why should I try and stop her!?!
She’s only a child for goodness sakes!
A small and innocent child!
She’s not responsible for knowing about stealing other people’s ideas!
That’s MY JOB!
AND BESIDES!!!
It’s not my responsibility to teach my kids how to cite their sources!
That’s GOD’S JOB!
And if plagiarism was SO IMPORTANT TO JESUS don’t you think it would show up in the BIBLE!
Which it DOESN’T!!!
NOT EVEN ONCE!!!
So if plagiarism doesn’t matter to GOD why should it matter TO ME!
And that is why it is perfectly okay for my tiny little girl to steal another artist’s ideas off of the internet, fail to properly cite her sources, and then post step by step instructions on the internet!
Hey! Everyone wins right!!!!
Ree makes money, I make money and my little girl ALSO makes money!
Oh yes… and also the original artist will make some money too because we did after all put up a few links at the very bottom of the post to her site!
And you better believe that when she starts to make a little money off being plagiarized by a famous blogger, she will bend right over and take it straight up the butt!
After all!
Getting screwed over by a famous blogger like little ole Ree Ree is a complete and total HONOR goddammit!
And it teaches my daughter important and valuable lessons in independent thinking and entrepreneurship!
So let’s review what we have learned today…
Steal other people’s ideas.
Never give them credit.
Pretend like they are your own…
But if you do get caught.
Just take the offending post down and pretend like it never happened.
It works every time people!
Can I hear an amen!
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Funny, funny Rechelle. I don’t know what’s sadder about this whole thing: Ree’s denial or the victim’s defending her.
the weird hair. I can’t take it. and what is that bacon thing?
It’s a part of the original artist’s card which got copied exactly on Ree’s site without any credit back to the original artist. The post read as if OMSH’s blue haired daughter had created the card. And since she looks so artsy, she must have! NOT!
My favorite part has to be the giant safety pin in her ear on the shaved side of her head. This is why you’re a genius, you pick out the details from the PW website and magnify them brilliantly.
The sentiments you printed are better than the original, and probably more along the lines of what Emelie will be saying…in prison.
Rechelle,
You did a great job bringing this issue to light in a satire. That Heather and her daughter Emelie would dare to blatantly COPY someone else’s art/ greeting cards and then post it on their blog as if it is original is hard to stomach. Does plagiarism not apply to homeschoolers?
I do not have anything clever to say here. What kind of payoff do you think the original etsy artist got from Ree to keep her quiet? $1000? more?
Thanks for writing this post and exposing this type of issue.
MOV
Oh My Shrieking Harridan said plagiarism isn’t in the Bible. Maybe not, but the Ten Commandments are: Thou shalt not covet and thou shalt not steal! Stick that up your Christian nose or other orifices.
Love you! You are my life!
Amen!
I love the subliminal (or not so subliminal) messages in the printed tags!
Priceless!
Hmmm, something tells me OMSH’s contributor position may be open-a la Mrs. G.
Ha! I thought that said “…taking candy from Barbies!” Snort.
Wow. Just wow. I saw that post randomly (I say that because I rarely check PW anymore, in a weak moment I went there last week for comfort food recipes–don’t judge me!) and thought it was a really stupid card in general–how sad that she stole it AND tried to take credit for it.
If you want to scream bloody murder at your computer, go to the Tasty Kitchen section of the PW blog. Sooooo many recipes copied verbatim from cookbooks with no credit given, whatsoever. I pointed this out on one blatant post for Ina Garten’s Outrageous Brownies—-same name, same recipe exactly, no mention of Ina at all. I got back a nasty email asking me to not make these recomendations in the comments, but to email the “moderators” directly. I guess my kindly pointing out the credit was taken as something negative. Heavens to Wetsy!
Oh, not all Christians are how you describe them. She seemed to have made an honest mistake. At least you know they are reading your stuff here. You do have a talent for writing…I like your, “hi! hi guys! taptaptap”. I think Ree may even find that amusing
Wow. The entire thread is gone. Go figure. I guess they think if there is no evidence, it never happened.
This is absolutely brilliant! Thanks for a much-needed laugh on a really crappy morning!
I saw the original post. Did she not credit the artist at first? Because I saw where she linked back to the original card although I thought it was kind of weird showing people how to make this card step-by-step that you can buy off Etsy? What ended up happening?
You are the best!! Yeah, the copy, the visuals of the printed tags, and safety pin etc…thank you for , as always, making me laugh out loud!!!
That’s how it is done! Killing me, Rechelle! (The safety pin sent me over the edge!!!)
Have you seen the movie “A Town Called Panic”? I can see any one of your posts as a puppetoon movie or series that I’d gladly pay money to see (or illegally download off the internet).
Heavens to Betsy, now why on Gawd’s green earth would SHE bother to give some credit where credit is due … ????
It’s Just Too Much Effort … after all, SHE is just much too important and busy to bother with that !!!
LOVE the shaved head, blue hair and the safety pin !!!
PURE GENIUS, Pie Near Woman
I was on an Etsy forum and originally the artist was completely pissed off and stated that permission wasn’t sought out nor granted, and they were none too happy about it. Later on Twitter I saw the artist was defending Ree in a total 180. Payoff? Yeah.
Yeah, I was all set to defend the poor ripped-off blogger when I heard she was defending PDumb and telling *certain people* to f*ck off and stop butting into the situation. Hmmph. That must have been SOME payoff!
The very sad fact is that nothing gets posted on the PW website without passing through a series of hands (I’d put money on that) so the plagiarized cards were approved by several people who thought it was just fine to blatantly steal from someone else before the tutorial ever saw the light of internet day.
The whole PW empire is such a convoluted system of lies and coverups that I don’t believe anything that exists over there. Thankfully, Pie Near is as real as it gets. Lucky us.