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We think it's a bit of a stretch to say that one can plagiarize a tweet, but Shia LaBeouf essentially stole the meat of a 140-character message that Gucci Mane tweeted to his followers last year. And the kicker is that LaBeouf's tweet was part of yet another apology to Daniel Clowes, whose work he plagiarized earlier this year. (Parts of LaBeouf's short film HowardCantour.com were clearly stolen from Clowes' 2007 graphic novel, Justin M. Damiano).

After tweeting several apologies, last week the Transformers star hired a skywriter to express further remorse, and shortly after that he tweeted, "Im addicted to lean & that sh*t ain't no joke. I can barely remember all the things I've done & said. However there's no excuse 4 skywriting."

Lean (aka "purple drank" or "sizzurp") is a cocktail of codeine and soda, which Gucci Mane referenced back in 2013. "I wanna be the first rapper to admit I'm addicted to lean & that sh*t ain't no joke," Gucci wrote. "I can barely remember all the things I've done & said. However there's no excuse. I'm currently incarcerated but I will be going to rehab because I need help."

It does seem like Shia is making a joke by lifting the rapper's tweet, but given the circumstances, he should probably just come up with his own way of saying sorry!