Mr. Copycat

> *"I'm the crazy neighbour who thinks everything is made by some shady organization. Been in the madhouse 3 times in 1 month, and got out easily, someone keeps forgetting to close the door."*
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> ~ Mr. Copycat, describing his place in the TF2Tags neighbourhood.
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**Mr. Copycat** (also referred to as just **Copycat** or even **Copy**) is a veteran Generation 2 tagger and resident conspiracy theorist of TF2Tags. He is a man known for following trends and copying ideas in new and inventive ways.

## History

Mr. Copycat first appeared on the site on March 9th, 2014, with a tag of the Reserve Shooter named "The Anti-Scout Device", which quickly and continually amassed many crits. Following this success, Copycat would go on to make a few more tags throughout the week, until March 15th. Following this, he would not be seen again until a year later on Valentine's Day 2015, where he made a tag that amassed a handy 24 crits. He would make a less successful tag four days later, and would then not appear on the site again until August, just days before the infamous Mobile-Friendly Update and subsequent Bring Back Misses movement, which he did not partake in. It *was* around this time, however, that Copycat would begin Tagging regularly.

Mr. Copycat would grow increasingly involved with the TF2Tags community, quickly gaining a reputation as a trend follower and tag copier, which in some ways he helped kindle, as he regularly found out that many of his tags were done before and would pick up the habit of apologizing in advance if his tags were done before in the comments. In October 2015, Copycat would get involved with a site event for the first time, where he made a tag praising the Ulysses puns Crimson Blitz made in an item set following the Ulyssesstorm. This tag was mostly missed, probably because people believed he was speaking about the puns made during the Ulyssesstorm itself, not the set that Crimson had made. He didn't comment on the Ulyssesstorm in any fashion other than that.

During the Taggening, Copycat would use his final tag available to use his growing skills in conspiracy to hypothesize why the submission limits were not resetting, stating that it was not Expand who caused it (as some like Smash Z were led to believe), but it was in fact *everyone* who had caused it, stating that CP's time travelling tag caused a trend that caused the space-tag continuum to rupture, causing the submission limits not to reset. This became a popular theory and helped save Expand from being lynched by an angry mob.

After the Taggening, Copycat would soon reach 1000 points, placing him at the Face-Melting profile rank on November 26th, 2015. He would continue his tagging career into the new year. He was one of the only taggers in either generation to have sympathy for new taggers who were attempting to join but ran off due to the community's toxicity. He likened the taggers' claims that the new taggers were ruining the site to people who said immigrants were taking their jobs, and admonished the taggers to be less closed-minded. However, taggers such as Qror and Digi rebuked his stance, stating that the newer taggers' unoriginal, done-to-death jokes were uncreative and being made en masse, which really did hinder upon the site's overall quality.

After January 18th, 2016, Copycat would go on a brief vacation from the site, making only a couple tags in February before returning to regular tagging on March 6th. Two days later, he had realized that which the rest of the site had already known for months: the unusuals had disappeared. Funnily enough, Copycat went on his little vacation ten days before the bug that caused the Colorless Times to occur reared its drab head, and had simply not noticed during the few tags he had made during the Colorless Times. Luckily for him however,, the colors would be restored two days later. He would continue to tag regularly until May 24th, 2016, where he would leave the site.

Copycat would make a brief return on June 15th, 2017, over a year later. He would make a few more tags throughout the rest of the month, but after making his final tag on June 24th, 2017, he would leave the site behind, for good this time.

## Style

As his name would imply, Mr. Copycat had a reputation for copying jokes and tag concepts that already exist, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and was also big on trends. However, despite some of his own words in the comments of his tags, Copy didn't actually come up with unoriginal tags in most cases. Other than this, Copycat tended to make tags related to the *Metal Gear Solid* franchise. Perhaps related to MGS, he's also made a few conspiracy-type sets about item similarities and the Illuminati (which he referred to as the "Illuminachos", typically represented with an orange-painted Couvre Corner), usually titled "The <something> Consiracy".

Copycat also made his own little mini-series, dubbed "Mann-Up Dress-Up" in the second episode. This mini-series would involve Copycat being the host of a fashion TV show, instructing TF2 players how to dress as tryhards, listing full loadouts from cosmetics to weapons. Thankfully, this mini-series seemed to have gone unnoticed by Le Tryhard Hunter, which for obvious reasons was a good thing.

## Relationships

Mr. Copycat had mostly good relations with everyone on TF2Tags among the first two generations. Due to his early reputation for copying tags, he often ran into trouble with the likes of Relk\_Cehi, who is known for commenting on tags with links to jokes he had already done before. The two never had any malicious feelings toward one another, however. Copycat had a similar situation with Marmot, but as before there was no ill-will between them. The two even became friends on Steam later on.

Of all the taggers, Copycat was by far the most friendly with Legownz, and would often make tags and sets complimenting him or would use one of the two Legownz-associated memes (his desire for an Aces High Unusual Co-Pilot and his disliking of people not using sets for similar jokes made in succession). Legownz seemed to return this friendliness in kind, and two got along well, friending each other on Steam pretty quickly. He also seemed to have a friendship with Makin' Bacon, as well as M3Lucas. He is also friends with Tanner, Fred Fuchs, Walumancer, and Fancytag on Steam.

Mr. Copycat was also very sympathetic to new taggers and was against the insular direction the community had taken throughout 2015 and 2016. However, he would leave the site before any Generation 3 taggers joined, and when he returned he didn't stay long enough to make any connections. A shame, as he most likely would have gotten along with most of them.

## Gallery

### Tags

Mr. Copycat's first (and second best) tag.Mr. Copycat's third best tag.Mr. Copycat copying the style of TGRobert.Mr. Copycat's best Tag, with 89 crits.Mr. Copycat making a set satirizing the amount of Scout mains in the TF2Tags community.Mr. Copycat hates his life.The first installment of Mann-Up Dress-Up.The second installment of Mann-Up Dress-Up.The third and final installment of Mann-Up Dress-Up.A parody of Meet the Spy, starring Copycat as the Spy.Copycat losing his self-esteem after discovering the Colorless Times...Only to have it restored three days later when the colors were returned. Yeah, he was late to that one.Copycat's pets.A callback to Copycat's first tag, following a rework of the weapon in question.A long story set about Makin' Bacon.A parody of the final date test scene from Expiration Date, with Copycat testing Legownz if he is ready to trade for his dream unusual.A parody of the "This is a bucket" scene from Expiration Date, split in two due to the size of the set.Part two of the "This is a bucket" set.Mr. Copycat having a mental breakdown.Mr. Copycat's final tag.
### Art

(Note that any RagTag designs are very early and have most likely changed)

Copycat's original profile picture, which may or may not have been drawn by him (assumed not because of differences in styles).A rough, uncolored rendition of A Fucking Idiot.Autumn, Egg-Z's NTF2Tags counterpart.Le Tryhard Hunter and WalumancerDr. Dos and Player 1 + Player 2Marmot and BonkspenserA rough, uncolored sketch of TGRobert.Egg-Z and Mr. Copycat. Egg-Z used this art of him as his profile picture.Tanner's profile picture (full picture unavailable).
## Trivia

* Mr. Copycat dreams of being a professional artist, and one day drawing and publishing his own comics. He even attends an art university in pursuit of this goal.
* It is more than likely that Mr. Copycat's reputation came from his username, rather than his username spawning because of his tagging behavior. It is more likely that "Mr. Copycat" was more of a reference to the fact that he mains Spy, who copies the appearance of other classes. Copycat would ultimately run with his gimmick, however.
* Mr. Copycat has drawn a few taggers' profile pictures, including his own, Egg-Z's, and Tanner's.
	+ The latter two's profile pictures came from the concept art Mr. Copycat drew for RagTag, Walumancer's novel series, while it was still a collaborative effort to make a video game. While most of this artwork was lost after Google Plus shut down, what art was saved is in the gallery.
* Mr. Copycat's full loadout includes a Dead Presidents Unusual Cosa Nostra Cap, the Tomb Readers, and the Chicago Overcoat.
* Mr. Copycat was unaware that anonymous posting was a thing until he was informed by TGRobert after Copycat asked why all the older submissions had random TF2 character names.
* Mr. Copycat's steam ID is "SenorCopiaGato", which is literally "Mr. Copycat" in Spanish.