I must be old because I squinted at the creation of Wattpad and was like "Oh. This is where young teenagers go to treat fanfiction like social media. And apparently... plagiarize my fics. Pass."
Remember having to find a specific website (Angelfire? Netscape Navigator? Nostalgic words...) that had a collection of anime/video game fansite links so you had to branch out from there and submit your fanfic to be reviewed and permitted on each lovingly designed fansite as a part of their curated collection?
Then came Fanfiction Net, a free-for-all archive, until it wasn't. The Great Purge came, when countless stories - hours and years of writers' hard work and free labor - were deleted without notice or permission because it was "inappropriate", aka gay.
The mass exodus to Archive of our Own, the beacon on a hill for anti-censorship, created a semblance of that curated collection again, of mature writers and qualify fics - and then social media erupted and now young desperate "Pick-Me"s are thought-policing themselves and each other for performative social media moral crusades, showing off their utter stupidity for the world to see in their witch hunts over imagined outrage. Demanding we start massacring "inappropriate" content on Ao3.
This is why education is important, folks. History repeats itself.