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When I was young I had the bright idea to take a copyrighted, published book and only change the names of the characters to an anime I liked and post it up on fanfiction.net. Totally knew what plagiarism was then. Didn't think I'd get caught.
No idea why I thought that, either... People who like reading books also like reading fanfiction. Up until then I'd had a small following, so it was traumatic when all those people immediately - and very rightly so - got mad at me. My whole ffn account got wiped clean.
However, that was back when doxxing wasn't really a big thing and everyone was satisfied with my account being wiped. No one tried to hunt me down or call my school or whatever. I just sulked around the house a lot and then made a new account with only my original fanfiction writing. I can't imagine what it'd be like trying to do that today, even if I was young like I was back then.