Disciplinary - MalcolmMacLean
A redditor reported today that SCP-194 (written by MalcolmMacLean), appeared to be plagiarized from the 2010 comic short "Callie Eats Feathers" by Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsch.
Though no readable copy of the comic currently exists digitally, there are thumbnails on a 4chan archive that show the comic in grainy quality. In it, and on the first page which is in readable quality, you can see several notable similarities:
- Both involve the eating of crow/raven feathers as part of an anomalous phenomenon
- Both involve the eater being of antisocial tendencies
- Both have the eaters experience painful growth of wing-like appendages, the experience of which leaves them lethargic. Notably, the description in the article matches the visual on the page where the growth happens to the T.
- Both were published in 2010, with 194 being posted 6 months after the comic was published.
Under the circumstances, this seems a pretty cut and dry case of plagiarism. Recommending a permaban and summary deletion of the article in question.
