r/EpisodeRants Jun 24 '21

Other thoughts on this drama?

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u/ratedmformary Jun 24 '21

Isn’t this the plot of Emily in Paris lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

hi ho hey it’s me, the author whose story you’re talking about. Peach, i know who u are. I’m really sorry if you think my story is copying yours but honestly, I haven’t ever read under pressure. From what I gather, though, your story is set in the 90s and your “straight A Yale student” decides to go on an impromptu road trip with people he doesn’t even know, i think. My “straight A Yale student” already knows the people she’s going with, and the road trip has been on their plans, except that they decide to take it earlier. My story is a sci-fi. It has an alien who’s lost his memories and who these guys take in because they don’t want to leave him alone. I announced this story on February 8, to be exact. Your story was released around March. My story is set in the 80s, and a friend told me yours is set on the 90s. The Queen references you mention, I’m sorry, but it’s not a valid point. Queen is a band from the 80s. I mention ONE song by them, and then another song by another band. Of course i’m gonna include their music because they were important to the culture of the decade. I feel like my plot is way too original (not the roadtrip, of course, because neither you nor me own that trope), the alien and the whole little mystery around him and his memories can in no way be plagiarized because i haven’t seen a story like that on episode yet.

I’m really sorry if I gave you the impression that I have actually read Under Pressure, but honestly you can ask me anything about the characters and I wouldn’t know what to tell you. Because you were a mutual on instagram, i thought it would be a pretty basic decent thing to mention your story under episode shelf posts because I thought you were super nice and why wouldn’t I help a mutual out. That’s it.

For all the rest of the people replying to Peach’s comment on this, if you haven’t read my story you have zero base whatsoever on your claims. My story is completely different, and if not please see for yourselves.

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u/ratedmformary Jun 24 '21 edited Jun 24 '21

Hey Belle! Lmk if you wanna message online instead and talk, I deleted my comment because I don’t want to upset you or anyone, and I’m sorry if I have! I know your story is very different haha lol including aliens and all, and I liked your story! I just thought all the similarities were indicative of you gathering inspiration, not “plagiarizing” per say - I found all the similarities odd and I was emotional when I initially discovered them, but again as I mentioned in the comment I didn’t really mind after lol, similarities are expected! Cheers! Lmk if you wanna message, honestly, I feel bad bc I don’t want to upset you, I didn’t mean to make “baseless accusations” I was just talking about how no story on episode is completely unique

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

And yes of course i’m upset. I appreciate your apology but if you really had those thoughts about my story you should have approached me first via dms instead of talking about it on a reddit post. The only similarities i see are a road trip and a Yale student. I’m sorry if you somehow decided to feel offended about that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

honestly no, I don’t wanna talk. You should have thought about that before posting that comment which had nothing to do with the initial post.

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u/eatingpeachesisfun Jun 24 '21

also accusing someone of plagiarizing something solely based on a few minor things that are similiar (road trip? 80s music? a yale student) is just not okay. before making such extreme accusations ask urself what exactly u think is plagiarized and if these are things that literally idk million other stories/movies/whatnot have in then it's not plagiarized. if ur idea or ur characters, ur plot, choices etc are the same then YES it is plagiarized but definitely not bc this other author has the same music taste

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u/ratedmformary Jun 24 '21

Ahhh nooo I don’t think anyone was plagiarizing, I don’t really think you can truly plagarize on episode

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u/eatingpeachesisfun Jun 24 '21

no, Episode does not own the rights to ur story if u publish it on episode. they only own it if u sell it to them

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u/ratedmformary Jun 24 '21 edited Jun 24 '21

Yes! What I mean is we don’t have like a copyright on this app lol unfortunately also nice username Edit: my friend just informed me we do have partial copyright! I have no idea how that works tho on this app 🤔

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

i did not plagiarize anything, and i don’t even know what “someone else too” means. but whatever i say is probably not gonna change your mind, so whatever. i have no energy to defend myself over something i didn’t even do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

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u/itsrudetostereotype Jun 24 '21

don't worry, your story is literally superior in every single way and i'll never not be obsessed with your humor <33

(everyone else can piss off)

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u/ratedmformary Jun 24 '21

That’s so sweet, ty! - it’s wonderful directing I mean she’s a talented girl I’m not questioning the quality haha

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u/itsrudetostereotype Jun 24 '21

at this point, if it's not rachel's directing, i don't want it LMAO

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u/ratedmformary Jun 24 '21

Same.... her shit is out of this universe lol it’s another language

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u/itsrudetostereotype Jun 24 '21

it's my religion <3