A person who tries to erase your presence, while simultaneously recycling the very ideas, words, or work you contributed. They silence your name but keep your influence — echoing your originality without acknowledgment, hoping no one notices the source they stole from.
Breakdown:
Erasure as strategy: Pretends you were never in the room, never at the table, never in the conversation.
Echo as theft: Lifts your phrasing, your concepts, your contributions — repackages them as their own.
Coward’s contradiction: They need you to feed them, but they need you invisible so they can shine.
Fine Print:
An Echo Eraser doesn’t innovate. They imitate in your absence and erase you in their retelling. Echo Erasers can be found in the workplace, in friend groups, in family settings, and many other places—they’re everywhere, so protect your peace, and your IP, like it pays you.
Usage:
“Funny how he cut me out of the credits but kept my whole blueprint. Classic Echo Eraser™ behavior.”
“If your best idea sounds suspiciously like mine — minus my name — you might be an Echo Eraser™.”
