Rebirth: My Home Has Become a Gathering Place for Young Women with a "Crazy" Spirit

At 10:00 AM, MoG's account posted an update.

Regarding the recent plagiarism controversy, my team and I are actively compiling relevant evidence and will release a statement later. We urge our fans to remain rational and not be swayed by rumors.

The moment this post was published, the comment section exploded.

"Still being stubborn? They've already presented you with all the evidence!"

"Organizing evidence? More like organizing evidence on how to remove the watermark, right?"

"Stirring up trouble? You've hired so many online trolls, and you still have the nerve to say you're being manipulated?"

"I must have been blind to actually stand up for you and criticize someone else's original work!"

"..."

Qin Lang glanced at Mo G's post, then scrolled through the comments, a cold smile creeping onto his lips. If he truly had evidence, he would have presented it long ago.

The fact that they've only posted this one insignificant update so far shows what? It means they have absolutely no solid rebuttal evidence, and it's highly likely that things are already falling apart internally.

At 10:30, Old Z sent a message: "Bilibili's review team has made a move. More than a dozen of Mo G's videos have been taken down, showing 'Handled by copyright infringement complaint.' Go check it out."

Qin Lang refreshed Mo G's list of works, and sure enough, the total number of videos on the page had decreased from 528 to 512. The twenty episodes that plagiarized "Shrimp Cultivation" were now down to only 15.

They think they can get away with just taking down a dozen or so videos? That's impossible.

However, the review of batch reports also takes time, so Qin Lang decided to wait and see.

"It's trending!" At this moment, Su Yue pointed to the Weibo trending list, "Brother Lang, look."

Qin Lang glanced at the trending topics on Weibo, where a hashtag was rapidly rising: #Bilibili million-follower influencer accused of plagiarism#.

Clicking through, you find a blogger on an entertainment account reposting Qin Lang's technical appraisal report, with the caption: "Bilibili's million-follower influencer Mo Gtou has been proven guilty of plagiarism by original content creator Shadiao Xiaren, with a similarity rate of 99.5%. All the ironclad evidence, including watermark fragments and metadata residue, is listed. This is solid evidence; let's see how Mo Gtou tries to defend himself."

This Weibo post has been shared and commented on over 30,000 times, and the number is still growing rapidly.

"It's trending?" Ruan Zhihuan's eyes widened, then she turned to Qin Lang: "Qin Lang, did you have someone post this?"

Qin Lang shook his head and said, "No. It should be that the blogger reposted it himself. The quality of this appraisal report is too high, and it concerns a big influencer with millions of followers. It's no surprise that it's trending."

At this moment, Xu Han, with a world-weary expression, suddenly spoke up: "If this is trending, it's a big deal. Bilibili can't pretend they don't see it anymore, otherwise they'll definitely be bombarded with criticism."

Qin Lang glanced at Xu Han and nodded. Indeed, the platform was under immense pressure as public opinion had escalated to this point. Moreover, the trending topic was still climbing, and Bilibili officials had to provide a satisfactory resolution for the public.

At noon, Mo G's number of followers dropped below 900,000.

At the same time, Bilibili finally took concrete action, labeling MoGtou's account with "This account contains controversial content and is currently under verification," and hiding the view count and comment count of all his videos.

Based on Qin Lang's experience, this kind of action by the platform is usually a prelude to banning accounts.

In other words, Mo G's side will definitely have to put up some struggle or fight back.

Sure enough, at 12:30, MoG's account suddenly released a long statement.

The statement was quite long, nearly a thousand words.

However, the wording of the statement is quite interesting, or rather, the wording is very cautious, because the statement does not explicitly mention the word "plagiarism" at all, but uses vague expressions such as "excessive borrowing", "similar creative ideas", and "inappropriate use of materials".

At the end of the statement, MoGtou said he was willing to remove all controversial videos and apologize to the "affected content creators".

Unsurprisingly, Mo G's statement caused an uproar in his comment section within ten minutes of being released.

"At this point, are you still trying to be clever? And you're saying it's excessive borrowing? You've copied someone else's video verbatim, okay?"

"Haha, that's hilarious! Similar creative concepts? So similar they're 99.5% alike? Are you a parasite in that original creator's brain?"

"Inappropriate use of materials? Absolutely inappropriate. You stole them from someone else; is that appropriate?"

"So, all these works are just a result of you changing your name?"

"..."

After reading the statement, Qin Lang sneered again. It seemed that this person was still up to no good and wanted to use an ambiguous statement to get away with it.

Regardless of the attitudes of the other content creators whose content was plagiarized, Qin Lang certainly could not accept this explanation; otherwise, wouldn't all his efforts over the past two days have been in vain?

Most importantly, the trend of plagiarism must not be allowed to grow.

Qin Lang pondered for a moment, then quickly edited a new post, very short, just a few sentences: "Plagiarism is plagiarism, not 'excessive borrowing.' Copying is copying, not 'similar creative concepts.' I don't accept this kind of apology that obscures the facts. What I need is: First, Mo G publicly admits to plagiarism and apologizes to me and my fans; second, all plagiarized videos are taken down; third, I am compensated for all the economic losses I have suffered as a result. All three, not one less."

This matter has become a trending topic and has attracted the attention of nearly a million people. As a result, Qin Lang's post was shared more than 10,000 times in less than ten minutes.

This time, the comments section was almost entirely filled with supportive voices.

"Shrimp Master is awesome! We must crush that plagiarist!"

"That's how it should be; we can't let plagiarists continue to run rampant!"

"Support originality; plagiarism must have consequences!"

"Shrimp, I've always been a supporter of yours, and you certainly didn't disappoint us loyal fans!"

"Damn it! We have to kill him! Those online trolls yesterday almost drove me to depression!"

At 1:30 p.m., a person claiming to be "the person in charge of Mo G Head Studio" sent Qin Lang a message of more than 200 words via Bilibili private message.

"Hello Mr. Xiaren, this is the head of MoGtou Studio. We sincerely apologize for this incident. We acknowledge that there were some inappropriate actions during the video production process, but this was mainly the work of a new editor. Of course, our studio management also had oversights in our review process. We apologize for the negative impact this has caused you and are willing to offer the following compensation: First, we will remove all controversial videos; second, we will pin an apology statement to the top of our account homepage; third, we will pay you 50,000 RMB as compensation. We hope you can accept this solution. We're all in the same industry, so let's leave some room for maneuver and meet again in the future. There's no need to push things to the extreme."