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I've been doing some digging. So much of it that you can call it mining.

44.1k ShinyGemsBro  8 months ago

Alright, let's start this off with me just flinging myself across the forums trying to look for a mildly interesting read of just about anything. Then I came across this one..


I was initially about to just toss myself over to another forum post since everything looks all well and good, but I saw some out-of-place comments that caught my eye:


Majority of comments were positive and random in between. But these really made me think about what it really is.. what WritersCrusaders really is. And I've talked to him about that one issue about the part build stealing.. which I genuinely thought was taken care of by him.

...I honestly couldn't have been more wrong. And I never thought, or knew, that is was THIS bad.

I've been talking to alot of people behind the lines. More specifically those who had eyes on WritersCrusaders for a very while now, and the victims of the thefts, too. And they sent me alot of evidence and words for this. But I only need to show handpicked ones to prove it.


So this is the Jagdpanther-like tank destroyer WCAC built, right? Looks decent, big gun, fires hell every few seconds.
The gun was not made by WCAC.

It came from this. Originally made by LocalDealer. The whole gun.


The one on the top is the original, from LocalDealer's Panther. The bottom is the same barrel on WCAC's tank destroyer. Down to the edge of the muzzle, it's the same thing. And not one bit of credit was given. Neither did anyone else notice except for a few.

Let me just add that this continues on with:


And once again:

Same gun, same mantlet, same dimensions. Down to the very splicing. Even the gun ports are of the exact same connections and measurement.


One might think this is all just little pieces that don't mean too much and is just a little-bitty detail that doesn't constitute to anything, and it can be shrugged off, right?

...Let me make it worse for you all.




The hull of all those Hetzers above came from this build below, with minor, but crucial differences added that make it unrecognizable:

And elements from, once again, one of LocalDealer's builds. Which is this one below. Particularly the gun and a handful of details:

This doesn't stop here, by the way. Here's another one:

This entire Tiger, 90% of it

Belonged to LocalDealer yet again. From rear to front, top to bottom. With the only changes being the tracks replaced with wheels to remove it's mod dependency, and the commander's cupola right from LD's Panther. Another frankensteined build. Now where's the auto-credit?


You thought it was over? I did too. But here's more about this bedrock-level issue. And it only gets worse, mind you.

This Kubelwagen was entered in KSB24's A.I racer challenge. All's well and good, right?

..That Kubelwagen isnt his. And wherever the crediting is, its nonexistent.


Now that the stolen, subassembly'd ground vehicles are taken care of,
let's move on to the rule breaking and point farming.
..What, you thought it was over? I told you this was deeper than anyone would think. Not even I knew all this until I spoke to people. And it's just that deep.

As set by the rules of the site and community:

Now on it's own, point farming shouldn't be that big of a deal, absolutely. Every user or player has their right of freedom to do what they want to so long as it's not detrimental to others and their work.

Then we have this man who did everything above and skyrocketed himself to where he is now through deception, deliberate plagiarism down to the last parts, and solicitation/trade of upvotes. And he doesn't even regret it or conveniently forgets to credit with matching reasons to boot.

And he's still doing it.

Now this one has since been removed, but alot of people don't know of this. As the rules say, don't reupload the same thing. At least make significant changes to it before posting a successor:


Fancy reuploading the same plane for the reason of it being "underrated" cause it didn't get the attention he was expecting.


We have the misleading thumbnails too. All the detailing in the image end up covering the actual build represented that you can't tell what or where it is until you actually download it, see the gif, or check the mono colored orthographic view below the description and inserted pictures:


No, we're not at the end yet.

We now have `Verbal Manipulation. There have been a handful of instances like this before. When he has being called out for his mistakes about his stealing and failure to provide credit where and when it's due, his replies or forum posts would be quite emotional and appealing to his audience, so they would console him and be told that it's not a huge issue. And they're always worded in manners that would reach out and grab the target people by the heart for it. It's blatant self-pity and false innocence in the shortest sense.

Here's one example of it:



Another one is Comment Manipulation. In the most basic way anyone can put it, any comment that calls him out for his mistakes or anything that is valid but he doesn't even remotely favor, he deletes.

One iteration of this; BMilan called out to KSB24 about the aforementioned stolen Kubelwagen from above being used as entry for the challenge.

That comment no longer exists. It's been removed as soon as it got read by WritersCrusaders.


This isn't over, still.

Some of you may not be aware of this, but WCAC has repeatedly made forum posts about him leaving the community for everything that has happened to him as of recent. The times getting called out, being reminded of the mistake he did. I've noticed that during that time, a user had bet that it would be a chance their comment will be deleted, or WCAC wouldn't leave.

WritersCrusaders didn't leave. And the comment was in fact deleted. This hypocrisy was proven, but had I not caught it before disappearing, it wouldn't have made it to this thread.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to screenshot the said comment, but you know who you are. I'm sure you are looking at this right now.


And last, but not the least.. the Family

It's only been quite recent. It's the very first image in this thread, the reason how I made all this, and did all the digging.

Juan told the community that he was headed for Singapore due to a business trip and he wouldn't be coming back for a while, so his daughter Julane would take over for the time being. Not a bad rap there, sure. Stuff like this happens and account control can be handed over to someone else should the user wish to.

Question: How is the daughter friends with the same people he's friends with? How is the daughter's upload schedule completely identical to her father's? Why does she talk completely the same way as her father? Even how she acts?

User Rodrigo110 ran Juan and Julane's comments through a sentence scanning algorithm. It showed a 98% certainty that the account NEVER changed hands at all.

Strange how Julane has the exact same interests as Juan too. Though not impossible, but combined with all else, almost too perfect.

The account never changed hands all. Its always been one guy.
No family exists.

Like daughter like father, right?
Right. Completely right.


Julane's purported "first" build/remake Ferdinand Tank Destroyer


Juan's Ferdinand TD, made 2 months before

These two are the same builds. With the one "Julane" made only have very minor differences. By essence, a reupload. Even removed the self auto-credit via his methods to circumvent the already growing suspicions.

And when Julane was now getting bombarded from all sides with suspicion, WCAC resorted to creating a new account to defend himself in an attempt to show people that this Julane was not what they think she is:


Do ignore the strange coloring of the comment. Source sent it to me with dark mode active on their device.

Even the mother got involved in this. Apparently EVERYONE in his family knows how to use SimplePlanes and the site effortlessly. And she was well obliged to answer against the people that said things to her daughter.


When things got too heavy, WCAC, or should I say Juan had just returned home in the exact time from his business trip to address the whole fiasco that just went down in his supposed absence from site. Coincidence?


I'm not a fan of doing this. Even out of necessity. But since no one else had done something or even got up to bring all this out, along with just letting it go on and continue pushing the guy up, I figured I might as well.

WritersCrusaders, I know you're reading this. I'm telling you now that there's no shame in admitting your past. There's no shame in acknowledging that you were in the bad for time. We know that.

But putting up all this deliberation to try and covering it up? I'm going to outright tell you now: You just made it worse for yourself.

  • You lied to alot of people,
  • You stole from respected builders and didn't give a damn crediting them
  • You manipulated the community through your behavior, words, and hypocrisy.
  • You return as yourself, or rather, your "main self" and just swept the matter under the rug as if it's no big issue.

You used alot of people.
You don't deny your past. Yet you made it even worse. And you tried to cover it up.

You haven't changed. And you won't.

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    44.1k ShinyGemsBro

    I won't speak out here unless I absolutely need to. Cause I said what I already needed to say above. You know who you all are.

    As for the sources who helped me in this massive quarry digging, you can stay anonymous.


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    could you please link us the builds they copied in the report and I’ll take care of it

    8 months ago
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    Lastly when you guys do this we literally do not see anything because it was never reported yall just let it go then decided one day that it worth freaking out over then start all these posts up complaining we never saw it nothing is happening, the reason is because we don’t see everything that goes on the site of every second of the day, I don’t just know people are breaking rules till it is reported, I don’t just sit here surfing through every post hunting to ban people for the smallest rule breaks, same with every other mod, then all we see is this sorta thing, we can’t just blindly ban someone just because you guys wanted to flash mob them over a assumption on a rule they broke or some theory on who's running the account, and it shouldn’t matter who’s running an account or who they claim is, there is no rules on who MUST run an account and ONLY them, with stealing, report the build and LINK THE BUILD IT IS STOLEN FROM don’t just report it and leave the box as “ . “ because again I don’t know every build on the site to see a build reported as a copy to go “oh yeah I remember that build from 3 years ago that only had 20 downloads on, that’s a copy” if it is and you can find it please do report it then link what it is stolen from, otherwise we will never see it and keep in mind that it is ok to modify peoples builds, you do it yourself with repainting planes for anime stuff, I don’t go freaking out claiming we must publicly punish and perma ban you for it do I? No, so if it is a legitimate copy part for part we will remove it and punish them but if it’s not just leave it alone

    8 months ago
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    If I see any other post of this nature again, I will be issuing a ban, report the post and move on if it is creating issues, do you understand?

    8 months ago
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    Another thing is trolls feed off attention, if you guys keep doing stuff like this it just feeds them to continue whatever it was they are doing if they are a legitimate troll

    8 months ago
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    I appreciate you guys want people following rules and not doing bad stuff but you guys gotta remember this a website for a game about building planes not dead set laws here, yall are acting like the it’s the end of the world when someone does something, you know also half of these issues wouldn’t even be issues if you guys didn’t try taking matters into your own hands right?

    8 months ago
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    Nobody needs to be “shown” that it is wrong like that, you report the post and let us deal with the problem, end of the story

    8 months ago
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    @ShinyGemsBro oh my god bro, that is not the way to deal with issues that just makes it worse, how you deal with it is simply report the post and let us take care of it, otherwise now you get all these people that now think it is ok to harass people for breaking rules on a plane building game site, that’s just ridiculous, I don’t care what manner of things they have done it is not acceptable to pull stuff like this on anyone, I am now absurdly close to changing that strike to a ban just for that “justification” alone

    8 months ago
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    44.1k ShinyGemsBro

    @MrSilverWolf
    Rather than just have it outright disappeared won't it be better for people to be aware of this user's behavior THEN mods take care of it?

    No one's going to learn how to be better unless they get shown what those mistakes are. Simply talking to them about it won't get it done especially after it's been done repeatedly for a period of time.
    I did this with PeterMuller after AntonWings got many of his creations stolen by him, but no one called it drama. There was no issue with it. Why is this one a problem now?

    8 months ago
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    So if people are creating issues, rather than making a giant text wall of a forum post that just stirs unnecessary drama, if they are breaking rules please do report it and let us take care of it rather than doing this otherwise just move on, I coulda sworn I just tagged you and countless others on this very concept SEVERAL times now

    8 months ago
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    Ok, my guy

    8 months ago
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    44.1k ShinyGemsBro

    @TheOfficalMarylander
    Four underscores together

    8 months ago
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    @ShinyGemsBro hey uh, how do you make spacers again?

    8 months ago
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    73.8k Zerkk

    Finally
    The Truth!

    8 months ago
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    Archiving this

    8 months ago
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    30.0k TriStar

    @Mousewithamachinegun122 maybe there will be a simpelplanes forum tiananmen square ...

    8 months ago
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    70.1k Monarchii

    @BMilan sweet, thanks BM (⁠ ^▽^ ⁠); @ShinyGemsBro another proof, a lie of "it took me weeks to finish", every bullet counts or so it goes mentality of mine, to hell with harassment, ITS FACTS. anyway Ima roll away or something, have a great day (⁠ >▽< ⁠)

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    70.1k Monarchii

    @BMilan kek, who would've known XD;
    par with the course, I am also blocked, which is fun knowing, never have I ever been blocked by anyone XD;
    I kinda wanna add the Ragatha Chevy Webarchive but it's link is lost along with my totaled phone, although if I remember correctly I did upload it on PortSP but by this point it's probably buried 600ft under everything, has the unedited desc with no credits too I think, might be remembering the wrong one but idk

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    Bravo

    +5 8 months ago
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    70.1k Monarchii

    I just wanna be upfront and say, THANK cause you did all the work and all aandd compiled it to one forum, cheers! HOOHLY HELL 🍻

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    17.9k FlirBlitz

    so he says hes a father but he isnt

    if he was he should be worrying about his "family" in the first place and not robbing people in daylight

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    16.2k JP11

    massive research m8, quite banger lore

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    12.5k Eggplant

    🍿🍿🍿

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    30.9k CrazyCatZe

    impressive research

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    10.9k DeadlyDialga

    Holy lore exposition. This had more twists than a Shyamalam movie… but like one of the good ones.

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