Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom got +- 2,000 likes, more than 600 reposts and around 50,000 impressions by simply posting my screenshot 1 to 1, taken from my own work, without mentioning me.
I totally understand that it is not always easy to find the original poster.
Shit happens.
On X, that can sometimes be almost impossible. But in this case, my work was fresh, the source was easy to find, and the screenshot was clearly not some random recycled meme floating around for weeks but my screenshot from my excel table.
I also understand that people can sometimes tweet similar things by coincidence, especially when they cover the same topics. That happens.
A lot of my work has been copied, recycled or reposted by others because I am often simply early.
But taking an obviously researched piece of work, reposting it 1 to 1 without credit, and then getting attention and possibly money from someone else’s effort is just wrong in my opinion.
I spend hours on my posts because I want to be early, factual and accurate.
Whether it is Binance, CZ, Trump related deals, Palantir, scam networks, influencer games or everything else you know from my account, I try not to just throw random screenshots online and call it news.
I dig. I compare. I connect dots. I try to publish before the topic becomes obvious to everyone else.
I have already accepted the irony that X is basically the only way for me to get any money for that work, because outside of a few people, almost nobody supports it financially, while many are instantly ready to lose their money in scams, leverage and obvious extraction plays.
So yes, it hurts when someone simply takes my work, posts it as content 1:1, gets more reach than I do and possibly even makes more money from it than the person who actually created it.
Anyway.
Thanks to everyone who supports me, shares my work and understands the effort behind it.
And special thanks to the roughly 5 people who, over the past 2 years, have donated around $400 in total through the Linktree wallet adress in my bio to support what I do.
That means more than most people probably realise.
