Fat Jew Talks Plagiarism Accusations: “Things Like That Are Never Going to”

After news broke that he had signed with CAA, the social media star received nearly immediate backlash and declarations that he steals others’ content without proper attribution. Which is exactly what Fat Jew has done with this new wave of attention in his direction. Kind of. Unsurprisingly, his excuses are bad. Or cut out their Twitter handle. He also says that they are going back through all of his previous posts and attempting to find the original authors in order to add attribution.

I’m working to add attribution to every one of my posts, and will continue to do so. I didn’t realize that if you don’t have a source for something, then you couldn’t necessarily post it. I don’t think that was always clear. “I now realize that if I couldn’t find a source for something, I probably shouldn’t have posted it in the first place”, Josh told Vulture.

The joke and wording here are far too specific to be a case of parallel thinking and even if – IF! – he was copying the joke from some source other than the original, he delibrately didn’t cite or, in this case retweet, even that secondary source. “My email address is up”.

But the thing is, it looks like people have already had asked him.

So, unless he’s blaming his army of anonymous interns, the only way his argument makes any sense is if he’s claiming that he got ALL his content from a third-party social media players, and that they’re the evil ones who did all the malicious cropping, whereas he was just innocent passing stuff along. “I’m a curator. I’m at the forefront of what’s cool and what’s hot and what’s amusing.”. Asked whether he’s a comedian – i.e., a person expected to abide by basic ethics – Fat Jew the Brand replied: “No, I don’t, honestly. Everything was moving so fast”.

“I need them to bathe me” and says, “I was drinking a daiquiri nude and looking at the internet” by way of explaining how a tweet by comedian Davon Magwood ended up on his Instagram account verbatim. Here are the most infuriating excerpts with brief, obvious explanations why they’re incendiary.

As for that Comedy Central fiasco? He also referred to his brand of rosé, twice.

Ok. It’s a little hard to believe that its premature demise wasn’t hastened by condemnation from famous comedians, multiple online media sources, and general public outrage.

“I’m a commentator. My interns and I find pop-culture stuff that’s hyperrelevant and that’s going to resonate with people, and when it feels right, we put it up”, the Fat Jew said of his popular Instagram, which boasts almost 6 million followers.

Well, thanks Fat Jew, people definitely understand that now.