Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11296556-20130627121047/@comment-21751319-20140105180809

"I SO know how you feel, rott. But I have been a copier myself, in my old DC days. I only had 2 fans back then, and I wanted more (i was only 9 so dont blame me) So I looked at popular art, and said "If this is popular, maybe I can do my own version and it will be popular too!" SO I copied. I followed the same styles and things the most popular artists used. It was SC and Anime. I tried as much origianlity as I could in them to make it my own! Once, I copied a contest entry of Fluttershy as a human, even though I had no idea who the heck Fluttershy even was. Par and Me are on basically the same side. If someone copies you and it gets MORE popular than the origianal, that'd different."

-Jesskitty