HUGE THEFT PROBLEM IN THE MARX BROTHERS FANDOM

bowl-o-rosehips:

Tumblr user marx-brothers-archive (Leah) has a serious issue
with reposting and failing to give credit. Interestingly, she credits most
people in the Marx Brothers Council of Facebook, but many of us who are both on tumblr and in the Council
have noticed some trends:

For a while last April, Leah seemed to be imitating certain people in the Council, trying to attach names, dates and facts to images she posted there, as though she wanted them to notice her. She would repost images from the Council to her tumblr and credit the Council members. Usually. There are instances of her not doing this (meaning she did not put a permalink in, put credit in the tags or any other accepted form of crediting original posters).

HOWEVER

From day one she would repost things from tumblr in the group, usually from hazelfyre and marx-bros-place but would not credit them, instead acting as though their screencaps of the Marx Brothers and text posts about them were her own content and ideas. When people who were both in the Council and on tumblr would politely add credit to these posts, Leah would delete the entire thing so nobody would know she was blatantly stealing from other Marx Brothers fans. She also began blocking anyone who added credit to her posts.

Recently she has started this again with tutsiefruitsie, and continues to repost their screencaps and edits in the Council and tumblr, even after being blocked by them and asked to stop (screencapped evidence can be seen in a post they made here). Perhaps Leah is trying to figure out who is in the Council by reposting their things in order to get them to credit themselves so she can stalk and harass them as she’s done to hazel, or at the very least block them too, so she can continue to repost their work as her own and deceive members of the Council into thinking she’s this huge Marx fan with original ideas.

On top of all this, Leah demands people credit her for photos that she claims belong to her, yet refuses to credit someone if she believes doing so will not benefit her (such as trying to get someone to like her by sharing their things properly) or will be detrimental to her receiving praise and attention from people who don’t know any better.

It’s wrong and needs to stop. It’s sickening as this is not the whole story, and is minor compared to many other actions she has done to people in this fandom. Everyone from tumblr and the Council knows she does this. We all see it every time it happens. There’s no reason for Leah to continue to do this. The jig is up.