The time I got called out for reposting a joke without credit

I used to grab funny tweets from other people and repost them on my own page without naming who wrote them. Didn't think much of it until one of my followers DMed me a screenshot showing my post next to the original person's tweet from 3 days earlier. She said I was stealing content and making people think I wrote it. Once I saw them side by side it hit me that I was basically taking credit for someone else's work. Has anyone else had a moment where they realized they were the problem in a cancel situation?

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miab162d ago

omg this literally happened to my friend Sarah back in like 2018. She found this super funny joke about working retail on Tumblr and posted it to her Facebook without thinking, just thought it was relatable. Next thing she knows some rando comments with the link to the original post and calls her out for stealing. She was just sitting there like oh no I genuinely didn't even realize I was doing that. Sarah deleted the post and sent the original person a message apologizing and they were actually cool about it but she still gets embarrassed when someone brings it up.

the_margaret2d ago

The real kicker is when you think you're being funny and original, and then someone rocks up with receipts showing you're just a human copy-paste machine. miab16, your friend Sarah's story hits close to home, I once reposted a whole thread from a comedy writer and had to do the walk of shame to my DMs to apologize. It's humbling when you realize you're the villain in your own story, especially when the original creator is gracious about it.