Rant >:(

I’m so tired of the discourse over pattern stealing/borrowing. I grew up with social media and I’ve gotten really good at not getting upset by things I see. But the discourse I see on tik tok around the Sophie scarf/hood pattern and that it should be free and all this stuff angers me so much. Side note- I only use tik took to find patterns I want to create, it’s what got me to even begin crochet/knitting way back in 2020 with the Harry Styles cardigan. So I fear I can’t just not go on tik tok anymore

But I saw a girl asking someone to send her the Sophie hood pattern, for FREE. And then she continue to comment that the $5 pattern was too expensive. I get everyone’s financial circumstances are so different, but $5 for a pattern is too much? Ok what about buying yarn for the project? It just angers me. Between people saying it’s too expensive and then also saying it’s too easy and shouldn’t even be charged for just really makes me want to rattle people. I don’t care if you don’t think it’s worth the money, if you want what the artist is offering you don’t get to decide if it’s worth it or not. Either buy it or dont use the pattern. I’d get it if it was $10< but it’s not!