/ot/ - off-topic

@CopyingRimes keeps track of country singer Leann Rimes copying her husband’s exwife. From her sm to her style. I think she also copys other people too. Leann is a total celebricow.

I think the psych behind it is that the people copying hope they can quickly get some of the recognition or praise the person they're copying has without the effort.

They hate the person they're copying because the original not only comes up with new ideas constantly, but continues to have more fame or recognition than the copier.

>>273951
I agree, this must be the most common situation.

I think there are also cases when someone was rejected by someone they admire, so they hold a grudge because of that, while their admiration for them isn't lost.

does anyone remember cori shea? she copied the shit out of that one scene girl who looked like a horse lol

>>273940
> Leann is a total celebricow

This is so true, she should have her own thread imo

>>273965
I don't know who she is, but I'm down for a thread if she has a lot of milk.

>>273951

and what about anons in situations like this where… theres someone who copies you but who loves you and is close to you personally… why do they do it? do they secretely hate you?

Remember Kittyphina?

>>274003
Ironic enough, nowadays Kittyphina has a copycat herself

>>274003
what on earth was she even thinking with this? that no one would notice her copying dakota's shit basically one to one? that'd she'd get noticed and snag a modeling contract, too?

can't forget when that mila mortice/anca whatever girl was trying to doppelganger felice fawn.

Beautuber Jacklyn Hill copying Too Poor.

>>274043
This seems like a reach, anon. They're just both hard-faced, dark-haired women. The shirt/belt combo style isn't exactly original.

>>274003
>>274039
Most copycats end up looking like cheaper versions of the original. Don't they feel ashamed or at least a little embarrassed over blatantly copying popular people?

>>273956
omg blast from the past
does anyone have cori's current social media? I remember she started working for MAC or sth at one point and turned into a wannabe Chanel girl.
Lexi hasn't changed much at all.

>>274003
This looks like a "expectation vs reality" meme

>>274003
Kittyphina was a skinwalker on a whole new level, I’m almost certain she thought if she copied Kooter she would instantly get all the fame she did lol

I’m pretty sure her username is baby.jpg now? And her face all of a sudden is extremely different, and not just makeup wise. Her entire face is suddenly tiny

>>274783
Her face isn't as cute but honestly I think her sense of style is better and she looks more like her pictures irl so things could be worse

>>273951
Adding to what you said, maybe there’s this element of “I can take what she did and do it better”, maybe like a one up sort of thing?

>>273920
really excited for this thread and hope it picks up more. copycats really do fascinate me.

and i think in some cases the copycats might want to be praised MORE than the original and/or hope the original sees their copying and becomes jealous/infuriated.

>>274039
meh these are general poses and getups ALL e-goth thotties use
felice was hardly original with her wednesday addams all grown up schtick

>>274039
Meh they're not that similar, emilyologist was far worse when it came to copying felice.

>>273956
Yeah I remember Cori Shea too! I can't find any current social media sadly… I remember after the Chanel phase she also went through a ~mystical wicca mermaid~ phase too

>>274791
I mean, if you want to take a photo of a jacket with a back patch then that's how you'd do it, and obviously people in similar demographics buy the same stuff

Exciting thread idea though

Low-tier orbiter bait weebs

Copycats of one another down to their NAMES:

YumeNeko on the left, YumeGata on the right

both are painfully cringey weebs pushing the 'oowoo my baby face cuteness totally makes up for my lack of personality/constant need for attention while starting drama around me and playing the victim'

>>275418
This is the second time I’ve seen yumegata posted on lolcow and I’m really confused considering she’s just a harmless weeb and doesn’t even have a big followring. I’m wondering if there’s a vendetta or she’s actually self posting since I know for a fact she visits here.

This happened in 2014 btw, someone known as #WHY started copying famous blogger TeyCindy's instagram photos saying she's a fan. Cindy said she was fine with the copying alone but then WHY went overboard with befriending Cindy's friends & relatives online & stalking, & later badmouthing her… the whole thing is just pure WTF. Here's the full blog if y'all wanna read it http://teycindy.com/diary/2017/01/i-am-a-victim-of-cybercrime/

Oh and WHY tried to contact Cindy again in 2017, just as she thought the nightmare was over shudders

>>274000
i have a friend just like this. my guess is that they want your approval and they think they'll get that by liking what you like and even trying to speak the same way you do. or maybe they have such low self esteem that they literally are trying to be you. its creepy and i really want to know what's going on in their heads when they do this and how they dont realize how annoying it is.

>>358712 Tbh I depending on their mentality or mindset. it's either that they wanna be BFFs with their targets, or as >>273951 and >>275019 mentioned, they're deeply envious and want what the people theyn copy have. They don't like the style, creation or aesthetic coming from their victims, they want it all to come from themselves.

Maybe some German anons will remember this girl here:

She first called herself Captain Miles on social media until 2012, then deleted everything and changed her name to Luna Darko ~so goth kek. Her style and makeup were a complete rip-off of Felice Fawn. When people called her out, she blocked them. Now she has a different persona and style again and goes by the name kitthey. After she noticed people weren't having it, she changed it back to Luna Darko on some social media accounts such as her youtube channel. She has some milk to offer but I don't think anyone will be interested at all since her content is in German.

>>358649
Anyone got more stories like this? Reminds me of the movie Ingrid Goes West, I'd love to read about similar cases. Copycat mentality is fascinating (and really fucking creepy).

>>359799
What’s her milk though? She kind of confuses me because she is so ~woke~ but then again supports people like Persiax that are hated by other ~woke ppl~. I just saw that she promoted drugs for a while and thought that was ridiculous because a) most of her followers seem very young and the way she talked about it was extremely provoking; like "hehehe Emma visited me… only the cool kids understand wink wink" and b) she sounded like a 15-year-old who had a beer for the first time. Also, her friends are worse copycats. That rapper guy is a potato bootleg version of Lil Peep. He has a good flow though.

Adding belle delphines new skinwalker to the pile

>>359818
I've seen one or two other women on instagram already with pink wigs, elf ears, and their tongues sticking out trying to cash in on the betabux, but that's a whole new level of tryhard. The puny beauty-app-shrunken nose is unsettling, too.

>>359818
God, I just want to browse this site without seeing Belle's annoying fucking face. It's like she's infiltrating every thread I enjoy.

(sage for useless complaining).

>>359818
Lmao it looks like satire, but she's serious isn't she..

>>359808
You're right. The only milk she's giving is her naive drug consume. Maybe even the fact that she fucked for subscribers like Benni from WorldWideWohnzimmer, Dima from DieAussenseiter and now Ardy. Dry milk.

>>359860
Wait, so that's the "men" she got together with? I used to know the WWW guy, kind of makes me lose the last bit of respect I had for her lol. Thanks for explaining though. I wish there was a German YouTuber thread because I hate 99% of them with passion, but I don't think that anyone cares.

>>359845
She is serious; her IG is femmyfatal. She copies Belle both in her pictures and her comments (not a good thing as Belle's comments usually are stupid). Also does a lot of Ahegao.

>>359863
Yes those are the men she dated. Her relationship to Dima was the last straw for me because she was still living together with her ex Benni. She refused to get a new apartment which was kind of understandable because she was still a azubi. But she dated Dima so openly and hurt her ex on purpose just a few months after they broke up. That was one of the reasons why Dennis (Bennis twin brother) hated her so much kek. It was so obvious Luna was using the twins and then Dima for fame. She's doing the same with Ardy and Taddl btw and I bet she was the reason why Dat Adam broke up and Marley hates her ass.

>>358712
>>359183
pretty much(namefagging)

lol i actually have a slightly crazy story relating to this topic and i'll probably be identified by friends who browse here but oh well…

basically my two female friends who are married and living together were semi-popular in a certain anime fandom on twitter and they put a lot of work into their brand of aesthetics and they had a girl and her girlfriend skinwalk them severely..
like copying the way they tweeted, the characters they liked, the way they edited pictures, their twitter layouts etc. you get the gist…

friends were pretty freaked out for a while but they eventually talked to them and became good friends pretty fast and had groupchats with the 4 of them and were generally excited to have another lesbian couple to talk to with the same interests. now the copycats girlfriend was in and out of hospitals and had some unspecified illness…

fast forward a few weeks and she suddenly tweets that her girlfriend had died today. my friends were pretty heartbroken obviously and were planning to send flowers and talked to the girl on the phone while she was sobbing etc.

tl;dr i thought shit was sketchy so i reverse searched the copycats couple pictures on google and lo and behold… japanese model instagrams pop up with the same picture (less filters tho). turns out this girl had invented the girlfriend to further copy my friends and get closer to them and then when it was too inconvenient to keep pretending to be two people she killed the bitch off lol

For the longest time there has been this girl that copies everything I do, we're in the same friendship group and it feels like the only time she interacts with me is when she wants to try and one-up me.

It's really creepy and my other friends have noticed that even if there's something she'd never taken interest in, worn or done, as soon as I do it you bet she does too.

I post an outfit on instagram, a week later she's gotten a similar one that she'd have never gotten before. She's been caught copying my makeup and I've tested this before by posting a new style and suddenly she's doing the same. She copies everything down to the captions on my posts and what I'm into, she even changes her usernames to match mine and if I change my profile picture and it gets attention the next day you can guarantee she'll do one too, same makeup, pose, filter, outfit, captions.

It's crazy if you see her posts and style and even personality before she suddenly followed me on all my social media after some copying started in person, because she had a style before that but now it's just a mess of an attempt to copy me down to dyeing her hair to be the same and spending lots of money on new clothes just to be able to have the same ones or similar ones to mine.

The weirdest one was suddenly following all of MY friends on social media and trying to suck up to them, and with the friends in our group I'm closest to, when we're hanging out she desperately tries to take attention away and sulks when they pay me any attention or compliments.

I can't confront her because she has a reputation as an argumentative and at times toxic individual but no matter what I do she has to try and outdo me and compete with me. I have done nothing but be polite to her and never given her any grief and I don't understand why she's so obsessed with copying my every move and choice and interest.

I get she's probably insecure but sometimes it goes as far as for her to try and antagonise me to these same friends for attention and a few people have commented that she's two-faced.

If the truth is she doesn't really like me much, why is she copying every little thing I do? it's like a gradual horror movie. At first I thought it was funny but it's starting to feel very aggressive. For a while I tried to give her the benefit of doubt but it's gone on for over a year now and she's made it clear to me and others that she has this weird obsession with me and having to copy everything I do.

Why does she do this and does it mean I in general annoy her when I'm posting myself if the reaction I get is her aggressively needing to imitate me?

How can I avoid annoying her and let her find her own self and style? it feels unhealthy and embarassing at this point. We aren't in high school, we're both adults. I feel uncomfortable because she's turning into a skinwalker.

The extent of it is weird and weirds my friends out, imagine uploading a new pfp selfie to have her copy it and comment on yours "matching!" like I know we match because everything I do or buy, you have to go buy or do it too

Do copycats ever get bored? do they give up? She's very competetive and insecure and people notice that she's an attention seeker who pretends to be nice so I don't know how to deal with it.

>>409658

Anyone? she's gotten even worse in the last month.

>>426288
I'm not entirely sure what people here can do to help you. Only advice I can think of is: Delete all social media and stat anew. And block the bitch.

There are two girls who are obsessed with copying me. I think I've discussed them both in the vent thread on separate occasions

One is the girl my boyfriend cheated on with me - they've since broken up. But even when they were together she copied me to the point that it was undeniable. It started out small and I was like meh i'm just being overdramatic but got creepy. I wonder how much of it was my boyfriend getting her to do stuff to be more like me.
>cut her hair same way as me, dyed it from blonde to brunette like mine
>bought the same glasses as me
>moved to the EXACT SAME apartment that I had lived in the previous year
>started editing her instagram pictures the same as mine (I use a specific lightroom preset that costs $75 so she had to buy it)
>got the same dog breed I have, and gave it the same name as my dog (NOT a common dog name)
>I have graduated from university (we never went to the same school anyways,) she just graduated and is starting grad school in my alma mater, same city I still live in
I have not looked at her profiles or anything in a long time, I blocked her. I used to get notifications about her looking at my linkedin profile every day. Honestly im scared about her living in the same city as me again.

The other person is my friend, although honestly I've started to distance myself from her. I'm really close to just snapping though
>gets nose job, shows doctor picture of my nose and tells him to make hers look exactly the same
>goes to same hairdresser as me, gets same cut and color
>changed her major to the same as mine
>wears same perfume, buys the same makeup
>changed her style completely and shops at all of the same stores as me
>personality and manner of speaking has been changing
>am moving to new city for a job, she starts looking for a job in that city so she can move too

I honestly don't understand why TWO girls are trying to copy me this hard. Especially the girl that my boyfriend cheated on me with. I'm not ugly but I'm not like, model tier or anything. It feels like im in middle school.

Years ago when I met my best friend she was fwb with this shitty guy (they even lived together, it was fucked.) He was incredibly controlling and jealous about her finding other partners but he was on online dating apps constantly. She was a mess and I helped her get out of the situation and she never looked back.

But holy shit. I ran into him the other day. I guess he is MTF now and was dressed exactly how my friend would dress when I first met her. Same distinct haircut and color, same style pink framed glasses, same style of dress she used to favor, a same style purse with fringes that used to be her favorite… I didn't know what to make of any of it. Maybe it was a coincidence?? But I looked him up online and man it really looks like he is trying to emulate who she was when she cut contact with him. Not gonna say a peep to my friend though. Too creepy.

>>409658

Anyone? she's gotten even worse in the last month.>>426305

I don't wanna delete my social media, but I want to know wtf she's on because she's copying someone she also tries to ostracise and it's weird as shit

>>426661
there's not much you can do other than block her, tell your friends and do your best to cut her out of your life
especially since you dont want to confront her

>>427260

Why do people decide to constantly copy and ned to upstage the same people they clearly dislike but are fake uwu nice to in person

Found a Vintage Venom copy cat on instagram.. honestly thought is was vintage until i looked at the user name a second time. Also the Venomous venom chick claims shes only 18 but looking at her insta and her old insta i kind of doubt it.. and seeing as Vintage just turned seventeen its still creepy for an older person to be copying a minor