Serial Asshole Shia LaBeouf Takes His Apologies to the Sky

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Lacey Donohue

01/02/14 10:49AM

Filed to: Plagiarism

Shia LaBeouf is very very sorry for plagiarizing Daniel Clowes' graphic novel Justin M. Damiano. And he can't stop apologizing for it. He's apologized so much he even ran out of his own words and had to steal apologies from famous people including Kanye West, Robert McNamara, Tiger Woods, and Shepherd Fairey.

But on New Year's day, LaBeouf took the insincere apologies to a new level and hired a skywriter to blanket the sky of Hollywood and Studio City with a simple message: "I am sorry Daniel Clowes." Too bad Daniel Clowes lives in the Bay Area and couldn't witness this new desperate plea for attention.

LaBeouf even took to Twitter after the skywriting to make sure he'd get credit for the spectacle in the clouds.

CLOUD: - vapor floating in the atmosphere - remote servers used to SHARE DATA - to make LESS CLEAR or TRANSPARENT pic.twitter.com/jw9JlEi791
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) January 1, 2014

Because when you rip off someone's work and get caught, it's best to continue making the situation LESS CLEAR.

But at this point it's obvious LaBeouf is trying to pass this off as some kind of 21^st century performance piece about art, property, and increasingly irrelevant movie stars. On New Year's Eve, he tweeted:

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

Not quite sure who he's mocking, but it doesn't matter because he stole this apology from a anti-abortion nutjob in Texas. Cool art, Shia. Cool, cool edgy art.

And he's at it again Thursday morning, borrowing his latest apology from Jay Z:

I am not a biter. I'm a writer for myself and others. I steal some plot points & dialogue. I'm only big'n up my brother.
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) January 2, 2014

What an asshole.

[Image via Twitter]

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drunkape Lacey Donohue 01/02/14 11:33AM

And the cow goes Shazoooooo.

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Taylor Berman drunkape 01/02/14 12:39PM

Congrats on making it (temporarily) to Gawker's front page.

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drunkape Taylor Berman 01/02/14 12:41PM

Ha, no way I didn't even notice. Level up lol.

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Lacey Donohue drunkape 01/02/14 12:50PM

Happy New Year! You helped play a major role in my first public embarrassment of 2014!

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drunkape Lacey Donohue 01/02/14 12:52PM

You too. I can't stop laughing.....

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Lacey Donohue drunkape 01/02/14 12:55PM

I was trying to follow you for Defamer and one click above is "Share to Gawker." I am dying.

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drunkape Lacey Donohue 01/02/14 12:59PM

It's the worst possible reply to share as well.

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Lacey Donohue drunkape 01/02/14 01:13PM

Just please, help redeem us both and become a useful and beloved Defamer commenter. I need this one, drunkape. I really need this one.

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Jackson Polyp Lacey Donohue 01/02/14 11:56AM

Not quite sure who he's mocking, but it doesn't matter because he stole this apology from a pro-abortion nutjob in Texas.

RedState's Erick Erickson is a "pro-abortion nutjob?" Did you even read what you linked to?

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Lacey Donohue Jackson Polyp 01/02/14 12:23PM

Oh man, I definitely meant "anti" but I think I started to type "pro-life" first. Thanks for the catch!

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The secret ingredient is phone Lacey Donohue 01/02/14 11:23AM

I still like the theory that this is another Casey Affleck movie stunt like I'm Still Here.

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Lacey Donohue The secret ingredient is phone 01/02/14 12:20PM

I think it's a real possibility, but I think it might have been hatched after the fact?

Even if it wasn't, WHO THE FUCK CARES, SHIA?

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divis Lacey Donohue 01/02/14 11:08AM

Assuming the threats of various lawsuits against him are real, it seems crazy to me that he would continue to demonstrate that he isn't taking it seriously at all. I would like to see him explain to a judge that this was just his version of James Franco going on General Hospital.

He even stole the "...accurately realizing I was mocking you" quote from Fox News's Erick Erickson.

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Lacey Donohue divis 01/02/14 11:14AM

Do you think he's just doubling down or do you think he's genuinely lost his mind? I don't even want to give him any more attention at this point because it seems indicative of something even sadder that just dickery.

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divis Lacey Donohue 01/02/14 11:26AM

I have a theory- his very first apology, the one that came in a series of tweets hours after the story broke, was for the most part his own words, except for one line that he cribbed from Yahoo answers. He assumed the Yahoo answers quote was too obscure to be found, but it was.

When that got exposed, he decided to make the whole thing (the laundry list of various pilfering in his work and writing) retroactively a performance art piece by stealing an unending series of infamous apology quotes. In his mind, it gives him some kind of strange plausible deniability, and he can claim to have been stealing other people's work only to prove some kind of point.

But yeah, I would agree with you that he should be ignored now. The guy is a major nozzle.

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otomo Lacey Donohue 01/02/14 11:33AM

If dickery is built on delusion, I would go with that. Have you read his "interview" over at Bleeding Cool?

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Gerry Lopez divis 01/02/14 12:04PM

I'm beginning to think along those lines. This is all an attempt at a "fair use" defense for the law suit. Either way, though, he's a, I don't know if douche is a strong enough word anymore. This guy needs a new word.