stick to knock-offs

Counterfeiting. You're right. This is SOP for narcissists, whether they do it surgically or just tell endless tall tales in other ways. Plagiarism is a favorite pastime of theirs, and guess what? TRAs can't toddle five feet without swiping someone else's stuff and claiming it as their own. Words, bodies, spaces, history, you name it, they try to jack it.

It's dumb. They can't see their own positive attributes (they nearly always have at least a couple if not several) so they go and fuck everything up for themselves and then want the consequences of that to be other people's problem.