Copycat Stalkers are fraudsters

(By Hella Ahmed) Some people think that obsessively copying and recycling someone else’s work under their own name is a victory, when in reality it’s a blatant admission of failure. To graft yourself onto another person, exploit their ideas, and persist in that harassment is unmistakable proof of instability—both mental and professional. It’s the same old strategy of the weak with bloated egos who instantly play the victim the moment they’re forced to confront the reality of their plagiarism and the injustice their shameless theft inflicts on the competent person they’ve targeted.

It’s staggering to see this 𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒚𝒄𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒓 behaviour in individuals who claim to be intellectually working on “the erasure of the subject (or of threatened subjectivities)” while they inflate their own egos by trying to erase the very person they envy and resent: someone who exists fully through their own labour, their creativity, their singularity—an independent mind who provokes jealousy in those who lack both substance and visibility.

Talking about the “subject” without believing in it for a single second!

The creative person is reduced to a mere resource to be looted, stripped of humanity, seen only as raw material to be 𝐯𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 in a frantic bid to publish and be noticed. An object one feels free to mistreat, because refusing to acknowledge the true author—a profound lack of respect that fully justifies a sharp, unapologetic response to this careerist hypocrisy—constitutes indirect yet perfectly obvious violence. It’s deplorable to realise that the entourage of these individuals actually condones and covers for such tactics.

Read: Chroniques du rebrassage assumé pour profiter. Listen to my podcast about Copycat Stalkets: Le syndrome de copycat et ses dérapages)

The intruder who lurks, watches, and desperately wants to appear legitimate by forcibly attaching themselves to someone who has clearly rejected their parasitism is deep in transgression and staged denial—because everyone knows, everyone sees, and the behaviour just keeps going (Read: Parasitism in Business and Tracked Creativity – When they take all the credit and get paid!).

Talking about the “subject” without believing in it for a single second!

Why keep propping up the imposture?

It’s more than astonishing, for instance, to watch so-called professionals in the fields of mental health and professional development openly display this dysfunctional pattern: a terror of fading into obscurity for lack of real competence, combined with the violent intent to fill themselves by draining someone else (insisting, persisting, obsessing, vampirising—that is violence). And they do it in plain sight, trying to plug their own intellectual and existential black holes, to refill their dried-up wells of creativity. Instead of doing actual research, learning, and then teaching, they fixate on one specific person out of sheer intellectual laziness, incompetence, and a cheap, gutter-level rivalry.

They should be seeking help themselves instead of pretending to be the healer, sitting behind a desk with patients, while being nothing more than an obstinate 𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒚𝒄𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒓 who has lost every last shred of dignity in the process. (Read: How do manipulators strike? Hella Ahmed, 2022)). How transparent people become when they’re suffocating us with their pretending.

A real victory

It lies in the ability to create by oneself—that’s precisely why, when you have that capacity, you attract those who can’t measure up. They latch on to claim someone else’s successes because they’re incapable of producing anything on their own, incapable of simply “doing.” These arrogant, deceitful pretenders are utterly without design of their own. (À lire: Nobody likes a Copycat)). The way to avoid war is simple: cite and pay, or go look elsewhere. Every original and effective piece of entrepreneurial work deserves recognition and compensation at the proper level.

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