Shia LaBeouf Plagiarizes Gucci Mane’s Twitter Apology

    Shia LaBeouf copied a Gucci Mane Twitter apology in his own Tweet about skywriting. 

    On Wednesday (January 1), the actor had an airplane skywrite “I’m sorry Daniel Clowes,” an apology for copying the author’s work for his HowardCantour.com short film. 

    After being criticized for hiring the plane to skywrite the apology, LaBeouf apologized on Twitter. 

    This apology mirrors Gucci Mane’s September 2013 apology for his behavior on Twitter

    LaBeouf has apologized several times for plagiarizing various works since mid-December, according to CNN

    LaBeouf began apologizing to Clowes last month (December 16).

    “Im embarrassed that I failed to credit @danielclowes for his original graphic novella Justin M. Damiano, which served as my inspiration,” he Tweeted, as per CNN. “I was truly moved by his piece of work & I knew that it would make a poignant & relevant short. I apologize to all who assumed I wrote it.”

    Days later, he apologized again via Twitter.

    “I want to thank all of you who have written in and created groups and protested,” he said. “Even though I wish I hadn’t made so many of you angry.”

    CNN reports a similarity between this Tweet and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg’s apology in 2006 for an issue with his social network.

    “Even though I wish I hadn’t made so many of you angry, I am glad we got to hear you,” Zuckerberg said at the time. 

    On December 28, LaBeouf issued another apology on Twitter, according to CNN

    “When you’ve made a mistake you should apologise,” he said. “But more importantly — most important of all — you’ve got to learn from your mistakes.”

    CNN reports that this was a “cut-and-paste ripoff” of UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s 2012 apology, including the spelling of apologize. 

    On December 31, LaBeouf apologized yet again on Twitter 

    “I am sorry for all the plagiarized tweets, they all were unintelligent, ambiguous and needlessly hurtful,” the actor said. “You have my apologies for offending you for thinking I was being serious instead of accurately realizing I was mocking you.”

    CNN reports that the phrase “unintelligent, ambiguous and needlessly hurtful” was taken from Lars von Trier’s apology after being banned from Cannes Film Festival. 

    In June 2011, Shia LaBeouf spoke about his work with Kid Cudi and Cage

    “[Cage] is one of my good friends. Cage, Chris Palko, and I had been trying to make a movie about him for a while,” he said in an interview with MTV News. “[Kid] Cudi hit [Cage] up and did a song with him. Cage sent me the song, called ‘Maniac,’ so initially, we started prepping this video, which is really like a short horror movie that I made that comes out on Halloween.”

    RELATED: Gucci Mane Apologizes For Behavior, Admits Lean Addiction

    39 thoughts on “Shia LaBeouf Plagiarizes Gucci Mane’s Twitter Apology

    1. hes clearly trying to save face and is just trolling now….

      he really did get caught plagiarizing a a comic book and the first apology he made for it

    2. so youre endorsing his crappy joke by reiterating his joke under a false headline and assuming this qualifies as hip hop news? he obviously made the joke to try to cool things off. who gives a shit.

    3. Who cares? Its obvious Shia Lebouf doesn’t give a shit that he stole that dudes work. So fuck him and fuck anyone who cares about this shit. Go to hell and die and get fucked in the ass by satan you stupid bitch fuck ass tit cock goblin fucks

    4. ‘United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Nick Cleff’

      As someone in the UK, can i just ask DX one question – WHO THE FUCK IS ‘NICK CLEFF’??

      The Prime Minister is called David Cameron. You may be referring to the Deputy Prime Minister, but you fucked that up too because his name is Nick Clegg.

    5. “United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Nick Cleff’s 2012 ”

      WTF??? You know thtas not what CNN said…. lol

    6. ANother dumb ass media outlet thinking this is real, HE IS TROLLING YOU FUCKS! Really can’t believe these dumb fucks think this is real.

      1. what makes you think people think it’s real when they keep saying it’s all a bite? by saying it’s all a bite, they’re basically saying they know he’s trolling but they just aint saying that straight up. read between the lines.

    7. OMG even Steven getting even with these mediocre media fucks with a brilliant joke about plagiarizim copy and post to you’re twitter they will make a big deal about it.

    8. People don’t realize he is mocking them by copying different people’s tweets. Gotta give him props for standing his ground.

    9. my neighbor’s mother makes $75 every hour on the laptop. She has been unemployed for ten months but last month her check was $19142 just working on the laptop for a few hours. take a look at the site here,,,,, x.co/3ZxGB

    10. this was funny… then i leaned over and noticed my girl was reading the same story on perezhilton . com

      HHDX youve embarrassed me.

    11. Top 5 Shia LaBeouf movies:
      Holes
      Transformers
      Greatest Game Ever Played
      Disturbia
      Indiana Jones/ Wall Street remakes

    12. just before I looked at the paycheck of $4811, I didn’t believe …that…my neighbours mother woz like actualie taking home money in their spare time from there labtop.. there dads buddy had bean doing this 4 only nine months and at present paid for the loans on their home and bought a brand new Citron DS. go to website… http://www.Fb39.Com

      its bigger than white black gay or thug life or whatever you ass faces paint it to be.

    13. This is the type of reporting that led to me moving away from Allhiphop. I’d rather see a throwback article on MF Doom’s thoughts on a MA Doom project, an interview with Kendrick Lamar discussing MC Eiht’s work ethic. A track-by-track analysis of the EMC album. An update on DJ Q-bert’s current projects.

      Did Mr. Sinista ever do another project like Common Sense’s “Resurrection” where he scratched on so many tracks on one album?

      Go ask DJ Jazzy Jeff if he and Skillz will release an LP of new material. Will The Roots drop an instrumental album? When will Madlib and Del produce a couple singles for Ice Cube?

      Anyway, if you don’t have any actual news to report, go get an interview from Hip-Hop peeps we want to know more about.

      Thanks for all the good work and great reviews. This one was just pushing things a bit too far.

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