Frantic-texting your roommate the morning of graduation a...

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1. Sam, get on your phone now, TikTok is tagging me 'plagiarist'.
2. What link? I don't even have TikTok open.
3. No time, it's viral; the clip shows my thesis on your dorm wall.
4. My wall? I haven't put anything of yours up there.
5. They zoom on my cover page; my name is clear in the video.
6. Okay I borrowed a copy months ago to help with formatting.
7. You borrowed my private draft and hung it on your wall?
8. I pinned it for notes, I never expected someone to film it.
9. Who filmed it then? The uploader literally called me out publicly.
10. It was Casey from the party; he filmed last week and posted.
11. Casey tagged me as 'the plagiarist' in the caption, he named me.
12. He texted me he wouldn't delete it until 'the truth' came out.
13. What truth could he possibly think exists about my thesis?
14. He claims you copied from a paper he found in a trash bin.