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lately, i’ve been seeing a lot of discourse regarding plagiarism, especially of layouts and graphics in the oc book community. this is a take that might get me unfollowed, shit talked, and who knows what else by some of you, but i feel that at this point its something that desperately needs to be said. for a lot of you, your layouts are not as original as you may so fervently claim them to be. though you can hone down on and torment other creators over them as much as you want, many of your unique, supposedly never done before layouts are things i have seen countless of times on tumblr, instagram, twitter, and even amino. the community we have here on wattpad is small, and i feel that a lot of you have allowed your follower counts and your online friend groups of yes men to give you a big head, to the point where you want to cry plagiarism over two or three symbols being the same. of course, this isn’t to say that i haven’t seen layouts that truly are impressive and have their own creative flair to them, of which they certainly do deserve credit for, but in a community where everyone is practically doing the same thing over and over, let’s try to think more carefully about how original you can really claim that you’re being.