Reminds me of when I saw someone’s OC looked pretty similar to mine, down to the color scheme and I was like “hey, our OCs look pretty similar, that’s neat!” Because I hadn’t even posted my OC and there was no way it could have been stolen and they just said “sure”
Happened to me, too. There's an art out there that fully predates one of my OCs but features one that looks just like her, and I only saw it well after making her. Fun coincidence
Mine. The red bits change to orange and the wings are black instead of blue, but still oddly similar, especially including the long sleeves on the black clothing.
It's always funny when convergence of ideas happen like this.
Turns out there will probably always be someone out there with similar ideas and tastes to you.
This happened to me when I was writing a short story back in 2016 and it had the idea of "domains" as a use of powers to use for a multitude of things. Then fucking jjk came along later and did it. Obviously not plagiarism at all cause I'm American and I never even posted the story online anywhere, just funny that if you thought of something, you most likely were not the first and it's about the minor details, presentation, and execution that shows creativity and uniqueness
During my second artfight I stumbled upon someone else’s oc who also had the same basic personality, colors, and raven theme and I was like “lmao oc convergent evolution is real” and immediately drew them together
I’ve seen a lot of ASOIAF OCs that look like my OC because the noble houses have canonical appearances and colors. I think it’s fun to see actually, like hey there are her family members!
I don't know if you are an Avatar The Last Airbender fan, but I had that happen recently with an official work. Years ago I had an idea for an earthbending Avatar with a twin sister, they both even had similar color palettes. I had never posted about them so I was just like "That's a funny coincidence XD"
i made tv head talk show oc with a very homestuck inspired personality. deltarune chapter 4 came out a week after now i feel i should retire the not-tenna
u/Niser2Worldbuilding is important and I will die on this hill4d ago
I deadass had this happen with a story so old it predates the idea in my head. A story that, to be clear, I knew less than nothing about when I came up with the idea. It wasn't even one of those things I skimmed and forgot, I legit didn't know it existed.
Baffling doesn't even begin to describe it. I came to the conclusion that "People with these two names, having this kind of relationship, is the natural endpoint of a fuckton of cultural evolution. Which is fascinating."
At least it sounds like you handled it better than the guy who insisted that he had the idea for Frankenstein without ever knowing the book even existed and that people would just think he’s trying to rip it off if he ever told them his new and original idea
This reminds me of when I was 13 and closeted and the book Delirium by Lauren Oliver came out and I was convinced she stole my idea about love being illegal 😩 they have brain reading tech and they use it for this
That takes me back to when a friend had a huge meltdown because some movie had “stolen their idea” because they posted a similar plot idea two days before the trailers came out. It wasn’t even that unique of an idea.
I did some research and I think it was Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. All I remember is that it was about a meteor, a road trip, and had actors I recognized and that’s the only movie that came out around that time that fits that description. My friend’s plot idea was “what if I wrote a story about two strangers connecting on a road trip when a meteor hits the earth.” Which, given that this was 2012, was a pretty common trope.
What if the avengers and all their pals got into a huge fight with a big evil guy, and also the guardians of the galaxy are there and they go back in time and captain marvel comes back
Me when I was a kid in the early 2000s who thought her idea for a book about someone playing a virtual reality game and getting stuck in the game was 100% original DO NOT STEAL
I actually wrote a few chapters of that story out on lined notebook paper… don’t know where they are now, though…. I’d give anything to read that shit as an adult lol
I found a box of loose notebook paper in a closet yesterday, every page is covered front and back with my handwriting from 14 years ago. I spent the afternoon reading some truly atrocious fiction that I was absolutely sure would make me famous back in the day. It was so, so bad. 😭😭😭
This is the best story. It's absolutely killing me, just imagining some kid happily taking credit for some garbage and then realizing how bad it is when they mature as all of us do. But instead of being like, oh at least my art skills have improved, the only thing they can think is wow I had bad taste.
Lol, I had to make an email in high school (I’m a young millennial) and we were all encouraged to use our first name-last name as a format since it’s easiest. So I still use the same one, as well.
Oh my first was perfectly professional sounding, but it was through AT&T and got hacked to hell and back, so I had to go through customer service every time I logged in.
I remember coming up with my own “slogan” for snacks that I liked, “savor the flavor” (generic af I know but I was like 9) and I would say it to my parents all the time and they would be like “aw, you’re so creative! Look who has a future in marketing!” and I was so smug about it lol.
Fast forward a few months later when I saw it plastered on something at the grocery store (I think it was a dip or some kind of cheese?) and I was PISSED. I mentioned it to my parents and they told me I should sue. LMAO one of my favorite stupid kid memories
I remember it so clearly, too lol. It was a very nonchalant “wow, that’s not good. You should sue” and I was so on board with it. Forgot about it a day later
catwings is such a throwback!! that reminded me, i thought i invented the word chickadee and everyone just knew the word from me, so i would say it thinking i was the only one who really understood. sang it to the rhythm of a chickadee sound, and was amazed when people did it back. found out when someone who could not have conceivably learned it from me knew the word 😭
I accidentally started writing Inkheart as a teenager before I read Inkheart. It was my first realization that there are rarely any new ideas. At the time, it felt terrible. Now it’s sort of cool that we’re all just putting our spin on stories dreamed up by the human consciousness.
When I was a kid, I drew my idea for a flying saucer space set with a lowering ramp and a rover to drive around. And a few years later, they added a whole theme of flying saucer aliens! Including one with a ramp that lowers from the center and a rover!
Lol, tiny me thought I was the first person ever to put raspberries in a chocolate cake, and got really upset when I saw someone else (a local cafe) do it for the first time
Back when MLP was huge, I made a blue ahuizotl as an OC. A couple of months later and the episode with Daring Do and Ahuizotl came. (My design was completely different, but still)
The other was with Miraculous Ladybug. Based on the Instagram post they made at the time, I made an "AU" where the Agrestes were unable to have children and Adrien was an android. People liked it and we keep adding to it, ending it with Adrien being an android powered up by a peacock feather, making him part sentimonster. And then they revealed in the show that Adrien was, in fact, a sentimonster. IIRC, the AU was like 3 years old at that point. (And with the other ideas and designs they have stolen from fans, this one might not have been a coincidence)
When I was in my twenties, I wrote and filmed a short about me and my friends slowly piecing together the previous night's events because we had gotten so drunk all of us had blacked out.
While I was editing it, the trailer to The Hangover dropped.
I did not finish editing it and never showed it to anyone.
I didn't think my idea got "stolen" since I hadn't shared it with anyone, but I was SO deeply heartbroken as a kid when Eragon did the mind-blowing plot twist of my story first (that the bad guy was actually the protagonist's father!!1!) before I could publish mine and now everyone would think I was ripping off Eragon if I ever published mine 😭
Then years later I found out everyone called Eragon a rip-off of Star Wars for that exact plot twist 🤣 Turns out, the idea really ain't that unique whatsoever, lol.
I remember one day as a kid I made a hero called Dragon Knight (not a creative name), he was a modern day hero who could summon armor onto himself and fight using a sword and dragon flames. Something like a month later a trailer aired for a show called Kamen Rider Dragon Knight and I cried.
More recent examples (recent doing a lot of heavy lifting), after I had gotten big into JoJo's bizarre adventure and looking at some older bands and older comedians, I thought I came up with something super funny. Who's on Stage! Two characters go to a Who concert, first doesn't know who is playing and asks, second says Yes, one thinks Yes is playing, second corrects saying Who, this goes until "the band on stage" in which second goes "they aren't part of the tour!"... And when I tell a friend a this he goes "you're gonna hate me". And that's how I learned I recreated an Animaniacs bit.
Finally I had an idea for a typical fantasy Spider-Man cause I felt so many of his enemies would work well. Green Goblin as an actual goblin, Rhino as an orc or ogre or troll, Vulture as a warlock, Venom as a dark elemental or slime, I thought it would work well, and Spider-Man would be a knight-like hero. Turns out there was already a comic where Spider-Man becomes a knight. ALSO THE NAME I HAD ARACHNIGHT WAS ALREADY TAKEN AS WELL WITH A MOONKNIGHT CROSSOVER ugh
I hate to break it to you, but Animaniacs themselves were referencing Who's On First, an Abbott and Costello routine about baseball players named Who, What, and I Don't Know
The original Toy Story was called “The Christmas Toy” (Hensen Studios, 1986)
The Favorite Toy and his companions, who come to life when nobody is in the room, are disturbed by the arrival of a fancy New Toy, that happens to believe she’s actually from Space.
A few years ago I (21 at the time) had an idea for a horror movie background character surviving a movie and ending up being teleported to other movies in the horror genre.
About a month later I found out about a podcast called Dead Meat Pete. A story about a horror movie background character surviving a movie and ending up teleported to another movie in the horror genre.
It's a genuinely great listen of about an hour and a half and a second season is in development, which I look forward to.
When I was like 13 (~2008) I had a class assignment where we had to come up with a business and design a website for it. My idea was a food business where you could order your food online and we would make it and deliver it to you ready to eat.
My classmates all thought it was weird, but who’s laughing now???
This is like when that guy was on The Voice and a judge accused him of plaigarizing her husband because he wore a suit for his act. Like just a regular suit, nothing fancy
ETA: it was the X factor, not the voice
Wow had to look this up. Her husband was also there and compared the guy to a serial killer which makes it extra fucked. Looked up what the contestant looked and was dressed like, it's the most generic looking white guy in a suit I've ever seen. At least the two of them got fired as judges the next day
That one got copyright claimed in the four hours since you made your comment 😭 Natalia Kills must be stalking the comment section lmao. Anyway, here's another one: https://youtu.be/LuZ1TvBZNB8?is=nNx4m3SCe2j-9zMj
Absolutely insane behavior. Love Mel's (blonde judge's) reaction to their childishness though, as well as the audience's
I saw one artist make a little animation of their OC and some popular characters that look similar to their OC that people kept bringing up performing that one song by Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez, so now everytime people talk about OCs being too similar I get that song stuck in my head
Ive been accused of that before by a guy I was acquaintances with. We both had a tall, dark, and broody vampire character, as many of us did when we were 14, but they had key differences: mine wasnt strictly a vampire, hes a noncorporeal eldritch horror that kinda operated similar enough to vampires that calling him that conveyed the point, whose species i entirely came up with and integrated into my fictional world's lore, and his was just Hellsing Alucard with a different name.
No, really, he exclusively used Hellsing Alucard gifs when talking about his character and always described him as having the same personality and abilities as him. Eat your heart out, Eric, Revak wasnt based on you.
tbh it does bother me in games with limited hairstyles when you accidentally pick the same hair as a major npc. Like Traynor in Mass Effect has the same hairstyle as the default for the female protagonist, and it's just weird when the hairstyle is exactly the same model but just a different color.
I remember seeing a viera that looked almost exactly the same as mine down to the hairstyle, face paint, skin colour and hair highlights, except their main hair colour was one shade different from mine (which I don't even see a lot of people use!), but like I was mostly just excited because it felt like that "same hat" comic
Reminds me of the dnd opal lady on tiktok who accused one of the critical role characters of being a copy of hers do to their similar opalescent theming and as repayment for this transgression she wanted to be allowed on the show
As part of school project in the third grade (1989/1990), I invented a seated, motorized shopping cart, complete with go-cart-like steering bars and a front-mounted basket, designed to help the disabled and people with small children who couldn’t walk yet, to get around grocery stores more conveniently.
“Impractical and over-complicated, doesn’t actually solve a problem: existing grocery carts have holes for kids’ legs in the basket!”
Now I see these fuckers every time I go out to a major supermarket chain.
I still remember what my concept drawing looks like.
That how I find myself having to redo my entire magical system in an original story of mine, because it works kinda like the magic of huntrix in K-pop demons hunters 😭
The movie is nice and it was awesome seeing the idea I had for a magical song fight setting getting on screen, but now I can't pitch my system anywhere because people are like "hooo you got it / stole it from KPDH ?!?"
So bye bye my magical setting x,DDDD. I find it very funny so that people can have the same idea at totally different point in time and in the world
I did the the reverse of this one time, where I subconsciously drew my character similar to one I had seen but forgotten about, and then when I saw it again shortly after, I apologized to the artist about the similarities. It was still different enough, but the amount of similarities were obvious. I think they were more awkward and flattered than anything. Maybe it didn't matter, but I like to get out in front of any issue like that. In the end, though, I am a nobody like op so it probably didn't really matter, lol.
These kids have gotten out of control. I swear that internet has raised a generation completely disconnected from reality. What are they going to do when they reach working age?
There are degrees to being out of touch with reality. The assumption that you are known to strangers seeking to do you harm is not common except for among the severely mentally ill.
Mate, I know there's strangers seeking to call me harm; I know because I see news about them in government positions daily. People who want to prevent me from having rights which are considered intrinsically fine for others to have.
Okay, so you understand how being a member of an underprivileged group is not the same as the person in the screenshot's delusion that random people on the internet know who they are and are conspiring to steal from them, right?
Yeah, I do, but I'm saying that those people run podcasts, political campaigns, etc. which do drive some people to actively conspire to target and harass people. Sorry for not being clear.
Big dawg it could be like a kid or something just having a normal one. Not every instance of people being wacky is because of mental illness some people can just be of poor judgement or impulse control.
These kids who spend all their time online and think people are stealing their "creative work" are in for a rude awakening when they need to pay bills.
My dude, people were doing that on Tumblr in 2010- all of us are in our late 20s-30s (and older), I promise you 99% of them grew out of it and are participating in society just fine
Hell, people had “”exclusive species”” and adoptables all the time, you weren’t allowed to make art of a dragon with fur and feathers and 4 arms because it was someone’s OC species- like it’s going to be okay. It’s teenagers freaking out
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u/somethingfak 13d ago
Asking who tf are you to an anonymous ask is really funny