The Internet Has a Copycat Problem

The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

Emily & Jason Morrow

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you scroll past a big creator’s video and realize… you’ve seen it before because … it was yours? In this episode, Emily and Jason unpack the growing problem of content creators lifting ideas, formats, and even full concepts, then presenting them as original work. They explain the real difference between joining a trend and crossing the line into plagiarism, and why that distinction matters for creative integrity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the really very crunchy podcast bonus episode.
0:04.9	Content creators are running out of ideas, Emily, and it's starting to show.
0:10.1	We aren't.
0:11.1	Well, we're just creative geniuses to so well of...
0:15.7	We're anomalies to the whole system.
0:17.9	People are like, why is your content stopped?
0:20.7	You don't put anything out anymore.
0:22.5	That's not true. We put stuff out. It's just more real life stuff a lot of times.
0:28.1	So I just noticed a trend of a non-trent, but not a trend, but not a trend of content creators taking an idea that they saw, a video that they saw online,
0:44.4	and then recreating it for themselves.
0:48.3	And posting it as if it's an original idea.
0:51.1	And posting it as if it were their own.
0:54.2	Not saying thanks to so-and-so for the...
0:58.0	No attribution.
0:59.4	Yeah.
0:59.9	No.
1:00.6	You know, I have a journalism background.
1:02.5	In journalism, we had a word for it.
1:05.3	It was called plagiarism.
1:08.8	Yeah.
1:09.6	Oh, man.
1:10.2	If content creators were held up to the standards of reporters or even college students.
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