imitator

noun

Etymology: From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate + -or.

1. A person who imitates or apes another.

   “Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.”

   “Other far-right sites would gravitate to Epik. Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.”