On topic: It seems like the author was directly plagiarized, and it sounds like the perpetrators are handwaving lawyers at them. If I were them, I'd write to the head of their faculty or their dean; I suspect the university wouldn't want to be associated with potential plagiarism (and I suspect their lawyers would recommend getting the citation approved).
The "Nobody cares about your blog" statement, in this case, is not a dismissive, if accurate, statement about an anonymous blogger, or low viewership blogs in general.
It's a self-serving excuse written by a person who cares a lot, obviously, because all their images came from the blogger in question's site.
Universities are political organisations before academic ones.
[1]https://www.rose.uzh.ch/de/seminar/wersindwir/mitarbeitende/...
[2] https://philmagness.com/2022/10/kevin-kruses-plagiarism-scan...
[3] https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/10/princeton-...
It appears that the entire journal is fraudulent (stock photos for people who apparently work there).
The author of the content that was one of the allegations said:
>Bayor, who Magness had accused Kruse of plagiarizing, has previously told the ‘Prince’ that the accusations against Kruse were “politically motivated” and that “there is not a story here.”
It's from the article.
The university and the journal. They both have an interest here.
"RECEPTIO is an independent, non-commercial research centre under private law (run by the International Philological Society), whose members do not receive any pecuniary benefit from their research activities."