Yo. When she said envy-fueled copycats are scarier/creepier than copycats who copy from admiration or copy for easy success, and when she mentioned that envious copycats make their victims felt guilty for being proud of their own achievements. I've always been the giving end in most situations but ive never really thought of how the other side felt until someone told me they envied me. Like, what am I supposed to do about it? I cant rewrite fate, or magically duplicate what I had for them to own. I ended up feeling bad for them when i shouldnt be.
Tbh everytime I copied someone out of envy it's usually 100% too soothe myself & not for anyone, especially the people i envied, to notice. It seems harmless but now I can see why people can take it as passive aggression. So here I am apologizing to those of you that I've copied, whether serially or not, whether out of envy or not. Y'all know you guys were never at fault & im mostly just dissatisfied with myself.
Anyway, more people still should talk about this subject.
Taken fron the clmments sections of this video.
At first I thought copycats copy cuz they have low confidence, low self-esteem & want to be popular, descriptions stereotypically associated with introverts cuz I relate/identify with said copycats. But I guess these people had a collectively different experience & what they say made me see from a different perspective.
In my old comics the copycats are usually the protagonists copying the "show-offs" which were generally popular extroverts with a huge following. The typical "underdog taking over the top dogs" story.
On the contrary, in this case these people mentioned the copycats ARE the popular extroverts with the huge following themselves, and theyre copying from lesser known people taking all the credit for their ideas.This is a "top dogs bullying the underdogs" situation & I hate it. Maybe it's cuz Im conditioned to believe copycats are the heroes of their stories, using what the snobs had against them, making it better & taking over. Thats just how ive always handled being bullied/belittled.
