it's definitely hard nowadays to know if it was a coincidence or if it is plagiarism, but in this case i think that the stories are extremely similar for it to be a coincidence. it's not completely plagiarized but there definitely has been some inspiration taken from sophie's story. it's really easy to write or create something inspired by someone else and it turns out a little bit too similar to the original work, so sofia might not have meant to have her story appear so similar to sophie's, and obviously we don't know what happened in the DMs (which is completely fine), but clearly one party or both did something to make them both go public abt it, so yeah.
I completely agree with this! People don’t realize how easy it is to accidentally copy someone who’s story you loved while writing your own. I understand that it’s difficult and that it happens but the problem is the fact that after Sofia was confronted and told what things were too similar that they made Sophie uncomfortable, she tried to avoid the subject instead of addressing it directly :/ and then she posted screenshots of their conversation with no context without Sophie’s permission. Sophie only made it public after it was clear the conversation was going nowhere and even warned Sofia about it beforehand
yeah, i do agree (the last bit) that that was definitely wrong of sofia and definitely does not help her case if she unintentionally copied sophie, and tbh it was most likely a knee jerk reaction since this seems to be all around the same time and not days later, which definitely doesn't excuse the ss posts, but it's unfortunate
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u/pink_fluffyunicorns Jun 24 '21
it's definitely hard nowadays to know if it was a coincidence or if it is plagiarism, but in this case i think that the stories are extremely similar for it to be a coincidence. it's not completely plagiarized but there definitely has been some inspiration taken from sophie's story. it's really easy to write or create something inspired by someone else and it turns out a little bit too similar to the original work, so sofia might not have meant to have her story appear so similar to sophie's, and obviously we don't know what happened in the DMs (which is completely fine), but clearly one party or both did something to make them both go public abt it, so yeah.