Kitteh Whiskers Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 How would You deal with a copycat? Someone that actively searches what you are wearing, and not only buys it but wears it right away to match you. Things from hair, clothes, companions, body, head etc.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Ahren Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Block and derender the copycat. 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaelFaye Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I’d be flattered. And at the same time impressed. A lot of things I own (mostly flexy) and still wear date back to 2014-2015 thereabouts. 😄 14 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayashe Ninetails Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 13 minutes ago, Mousy Littlepaws said: How would You deal with a copycat? I wouldn't. My look changes daily, if not hourly. I go from pink to orange to blue, wood elf to mermaid to frog to sphynx cat to orc to undead. Female to male. Formal gowns to techwear and everything in between. I swap heads more than Princess Mombi. I take a lot of photos and I'm not at all a shopaholic. Mhm, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. 😉 If someone wants to try and keep up with that, good luck to em. I guess that's one answer to your question, come to think of it - change looks constantly. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Istelathis Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I don't put a lot of effort into my looks, so if someone were that desperate as to copy me I would probably feel pity for them and send them to the forums for some fashion advice. 6 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitteh Whiskers Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 Y'all are giving me some great ideas 😂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitteh Whiskers Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 11 minutes ago, VaelFaye said: I’d be flattered. And at the same time impressed. A lot of things I own (mostly flexy) and still wear date back to 2014-2015 thereabouts. 😄 Normally I'm flattered and offer names landmarks etc, but this is getting borderline creepy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bree Giffen Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Maybe they are using a copybot to make a copy. I don't know if that still exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caeruleiae Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I wouldn't care. If people ask me what I'm wearing, doing or something, I tell them, happily. I wear, do, visit and everything the things I do because I like them. Other people can like them too. Although I don't think most people would be interested in the things I wear or do, since most people probably actually shop more than I do. I did get asked at the gym two days ago where I got my pants though, and they were a group gift. I saw she had them, and the same shirt I did on today, we were on treadmills by each other. I thought it was kind of neat, but I might be odd one out. I've been accused, twice now, of being someone's alt because my avatar resembled someone someone else knew, just barely apparently. It wasn't true in either case, but it stopped me from going some places I like, even stopped me from logging in for a while. It's extremely annoying to be told that. It's also extremely annoying to be told I can't wear certain things, have my avatar be a certain height, go certain places, use whatever certain things, dance certain ways, say any certain thing that might, or might not, closely resemble that of someone else. This whole I own everything I do, am, see, wear, is really weird in a place that at best has less than 40,000 people at any given time. If I see an outfit out someone is wearing and I like it, sometimes I ask them where they got it. Sometimes, I just use a what's she wearing thing someone gave me, so I don't have to bother them. I don't think people in sl are as original as they think they are, unless they go way out of the norm. I get a lot of ideas from things others have on or are doing. I get them from their profiles too by reading the groups they're in. I would hope none of them would be angry, but if they are, it's a them problem, not a me problem. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitteh Whiskers Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 (edited) My issues is, it's not just a random person I see at a club or event, it's someone I see daily. If I buy something for me, they want it too. If someone gifts me something, they want it too. If I wear something random on that day, they want to do it too. I'm a shapeshifter so my look changes almost daily. See where I'm going with this lol? Edited February 22, 2023 by Mousy Littlepaws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorciaa Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 you don't happen to look like Wednesday Addams do you? cause i am seeing a awful lot of avis that look like Wednesday Addams these days 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayashe Ninetails Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 12 minutes ago, Mousy Littlepaws said: My issues is, it's not just a random person I see at a club or event, it's someone I see daily. If I buy something for me, they want it too. If someone gifts me something, they want it too. If I wear something random on that day, they want to do it too. I'm a shapeshifter so my look changes almost daily. See where I'm going with this lol? If you're already a shapeshifter, you could try shifting harder. Buy a monster head for funsies and go nuts styling it. Go full Lovecraftian horror show. I do this on occasion. Very few will follow you on that journey - not counting those who are already into that scene. And if you do get copied, well, at least you can horrify people together. 😂 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitteh Whiskers Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 58 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said: Go full Lovecraftian horror show Ohh love this idea 😍 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorientje Woller Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Have you already talked to that person and explained to him/her that you don't like this behavior? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindal Kidd Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 2 hours ago, Ayashe Ninetails said: Go full Lovecraftian horror show. Rise, Great Cthulhu! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren Toxx Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 It could be just a weird form of compliment, and if so, I guess it depends on your personality and brand of curiosity. Mine’s broad and often deep, but not overly inclined to the weird, so I doubt I could summon enough interest to try & find out. If that’s not your case… then I guess just ask her. Or it could be some sort of provocation, in which case you definitely shouldn’t show any reaction to it, since it’d only make her do it more. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Little Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 (edited) Following Seraphim and some fashion bloggers, it is easy to see the new things. Ison has a new C88 outfit? Many go there as soon as it opens, and buy it. Stealthic has a group gift hair? The store is full of people. Pure Poison has a rings/nails weekend offer? Lelutka has new heads, 25% off the first days? Or, are you wearing older items, from small, unknown brands? The latter is copying you, the former is just shopping what's new. Edited February 22, 2023 by Marianne Little 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwin LeShelle Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I am a blogger, not even a good one imo but I get questions alot and I always share...it also went so far that 3 girls asked me to give them my personal tattoos without even knowing what they mean, because of course in japanese x3 one is my husband's name one and the other is my husband's and mine birthday (yes we really share the same day)...I was like ok tell them that so they probably would understand and they wouldn't even want it anymore ...guess what? Yes, they all said they wouldn't care as long as they look like me.. I was... perplexed also haha and of course I don't fancy anyone else running around with my hubbies name like that lol some people just go too far a tad x3 But the rest? Just take it lightly it's just pixels, so let them have it but if they are copybotting your shape and Outfits Infront of you I would totally AR them x3 it's one thing to put afford in to looking like someone you fancy, but another to steal using illegal techniques...I don't like lazy people >:D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Copycat Low on Toner 4 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maitimo Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Anyone else thinking about this? My advice to the OP is to keep a close eye on your boyfriend and your puppy. More seriously... have you tried making your own clothes? You can buy some full-perm template kits relatively cheaply, make your own textures for them. (The kits come with blank or simple textures that you can export into Photoshop or GIMP, modify and re-import as a new texture). Good luck to your copycat, copying something that's absolutely unique and cannot be purchased anywhere. (And if they DO copy it, then you have absolute proof that they are using illegal copybot software, and you can then AR them). 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Stern Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 are'nt yall just copying eachother at the end of the day? I mean how many jeans skirts bikini tuxedo sportswear latex ensembles and thousands of other styles are there in SL? and how do you go about enforce reporting a 'copybotter' if you have no say on the creations licensing and IP? that would be up to the registered agent/copyright holder to address, not LL, so who would you be reporting to otherwise, simply, block, de-render and move on. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Could also go full Ruth.. 2 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 If they are showing up in things you created, then I would AR them because like some have said, they are probably using a viewer that's not allowed.. But if it's just things you are buying..I get a lot of new people that I help that will do something like that, only because they haven't really taken off on their own yet to find their own looks.. Although somethings they can't get because they aren't around anymore.. If it's at a club or some hangout, I would expect it.. If it's someone you are hanging around a lot, you could just ask them why. I think the less that people make or modify things for themselves nowadays, the more cookie cutter things get.. Heck it's getting hard to tell a lot of stores apart from selling the same things.. hehehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Nightingale Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I had an RL friend, years back, who would buy any electronic gadget or computer type things that I bought or even talked about buying. This was back in the very early days of computing, when new and interesting stuff was coming out daily. After a while, I started deliberately mentioning things to him, just to see what he did. Without fail, he would have the thing within a few days. I nearly bankrupted him! 4 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 (edited) 56 minutes ago, Rick Daylight said: I had an RL friend, years back, who would buy any electronic gadget or computer type things that I bought or even talked about buying. This was back in the very early days of computing, when new and interesting stuff was coming out daily. After a while, I started deliberately mentioning things to him, just to see what he did. Without fail, he would have the thing within a few days. I nearly bankrupted him! That's what goes through my mind if someone were to try and keep up with someone else's wardrobe.. That's high dollar, especially nowadays for how much they overcharge for pretty basic clothes, with a single color paint job, that are a dime a dozen, sitting in 20 different stores..Let alone broken down into pieces. hehehe Ceka,Check out my new panties and top that cost more than the mesh body under them.. hehehe Edited February 22, 2023 by Ceka Cianci 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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