Ugh, Shia LaBeouf. I wanted to reuse my favorite photo of him from a few years ago because I’m so tired of seeing him run errands in combat fatigues and a Bud Light shirt. Yes, I have a favorite photo of Shia — as weird as that sounds. This picture is GOLD.
I hope you enjoyed that banana, for we must rejoin the topic of Shia’s habitual plagiarism. To briefly recap, it’s been almost a year since Shia ripped off Esquire’s “How to be a Man” essay during an apology to Alec Baldwin. Then Shia made a short film that plagiarized cartoonist Daniel Clowes (of Ghost World fame). He proceeded to apologize to Clowes with a plagiarized apology straight off Yahoo! answers.
Here’s where things get murky. People were calling Shia out like crazy, and then he went and plagiarized a bunch of other people’s apologizes. CB did a very patient and through job of recapping all of the new instances of Shia shamelessly cribbing other people’s words. What a convoluted mess he’s woven! CB asked whether or not Shia was trolling or serious, and I think the answer is “both.” I believe Shia was serious when he first started plagiarizing apologies. Then he saw that everyone figured out his little secret, so he decided to be really outrageous. Now he thinks he can call all of us out for “falling for it.” Really. Check this crap out — he is still plagiarizing everything:
You have my apologies for offending you for thinking I was being serious instead of accurately realizing I was mocking you.
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 31, 2013
[From Erick Erickson – Redstate.com]
I lifted the text, probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 21, 2013
[From Toronto Mayor Rob Ford]
2014 Resolution – I need to work on being a less controversial tweeter.
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 31, 2013
[From Blake Shelton]
I am sorry for all the plagiarized tweets, they all were unintelligent, ambiguous and needlessly hurtful.
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 31, 2013
[From Lars Von Trier]
Shia stole words from Lars Von Trier, and he’s appearing soon in Von Trier’s N*mphomaniac. Get it? Now comes the latest instance of Shia’s douchebaggery. He apologized once again to Daniel Clowes by buying a 5-mile long message with the WorldWideSkyAds company (who confirms on their Twitter account that Shia placed the ad). Here’s a picture of the ad, but it probably isn’t a sincere apology. As FilmDrunk points out, Daniel Clowes lives in Oakland. Shia ran the ad over Hollywood instead, so everyone else could see what a great guy he is. I don’t think he stole these words from anyone else, but I could be wrong.
Photos courtesy of @Worldwideskyads on Twitter, Fame/Flynet & WENN
Just go away
Exactly. Please let this dead horse rest in peace.
He gives good gossip. For me, he’s like Alec Baldwin, Aniston&Thereoux, Julia Roberts, and, well, others whose names escape me at the moment. Their posts usually amuse me, albeit at their expense.
Yea I scoffed. It’s amusing. He’s a dick unfortunately, but I do find him amusing and not terribly annoying
What a rancid douchebag, him Michael Pitt and Emile Hirsh can go with their deeply profound asses into a comprehensive shower and probably detox
UGH.
What have MP and EH done?
Michael Pitt has a long and documented story of tantrums on set and problems with the production -Boardwalk Empire-.
Emile Hirsch is more like a Sean Penn 2.0, who burned a lot of bridges from the big studios.
He can just shut up any old time now.
Seriously.
Congratulations, Shia LeBeouf, on being an a-hole! Yeah, you really showed us! So clever.
He seems like such a black hole of emotional angst. I bet he is exhausting to be around.
His PR person must on some serious anxiolytics…
If only he was as clever as he thinks he is……..
Favorite comment! He really believes he is playing everyone when really he’s just stoopid.
I hope he’s sued for a crap-ton of money by Clowes.
Me too. Getting hit in the wallet might be the only thing to get through to such an entitled brat.
Why is this creep even in movies? He is a horrible actor, an ugly piece of work both inside and out and has the sex appeal of a dying lizard, wasting away in the Arizona sun. I will be grateful when his undeserved 15min. are up.
News flash: he’s not sorry at all………………………………
Shocking huh? Guess he thinks plagiarizing apologies is some kind of ironic post modern art form. Boy’s got nothing of his own to show.
What an a-hole.
You know something is wrong with you if you are plagiarising apologies. I’m sorry. I am sincerely sorry. My apologies. How hard is that. I really have no patience for pueso intellectuals.
I don’t understand why he would do something like this… ???
Clearly he has far to much time on his hand. Time to take up a hobby, Shia. Might I suggest shutting up?
How does skywriting work? This has nothing to do woth Shia, I’m just curious. Off to google!
The blinds have just called him out for beating up a prostitute in Rio this week (with his girlfriend in tow). Police came and took the poor woman to a hospital.
Think there will be an apology for this?
I’ve stopped myself several times from typing the words “I hope someone beats his ass”.
Now I don’t have to – I hope someone kicks the everloving shi* out of this d-bag.
His apologies and sky writing are all intended to dramatically mock people’s reactions to his actions. If he were a tween it would be equivalent to a giant eye roll and “whatever”… basically. It’s his way of saying how little he really gives a sh!t and how he feels that the general public is moronic.
I agree to some degree and even find a smidge of humor in his over-the-top expression of IDGAF … but he’s just so flippant and pissy. It’s almost like Yeezus and Beiber had a love child.
I think it reads more PeeWee Herman-esque – “I MEANT TO DO THAT!”
I’m inclined to believe that anyone who is truly enjoying mocking their audience wouldn’t be so adamantly insistent about their intentions; they would just continue to feed the beast.
or maybe this boy has just an odd humour and people don´t understand the jokes behind his texts.
Maybe he should use smilies. That´s what my friends once told me to do because i often write funny and sarcastic messages. Caused some problems in the past.
Dick move. Hope he goes to Brazilian jail.
I hope he goes to Turkish prison.
Any creative person should know that plagiarising the ideas of others is the lowest of the low. Shia is scum. He’s not creative enough on this own and has to steal from others. What a horrible little dbag.
It’s so hard to understand how this guy was ever a thing… Any thing at all.
So that was fun…Now back to work.
He needs to apologize for Wall Street 2 by mailing me a check for $