The apology issued on twitter regarding the plagiarism of the dialogue and visual themes of this film was, its self, plagiarized from a Yahoo! Answers post on the topic of plagiarism.
Dialogue from the script was lifted from the comic Justin M. Damiano by Daniel Clowes but not credited. Despite the short film playing at various festivals the plagiarism went unnoticed until the short was posted online leading director Shia LaBeouf to apologize for his actions.