@@HoodLumBlockno, they’re a completely different fruit that has only been called by some colonials & their descendants as pineapple or piña instead of ananas.
We had a production company in Germany named Dingo Pictures, which would make so hilariously bad Disney ripoffs, that they couldn't even sue them for, because the movies were so unrecognisable. It's some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen😂
WHo else thinks that the whole Choke Canyon courts decisions was BS? I mean, the name is completely different from Buccees and the animal in the logo was completely different.
I'm glad someone else thinks so, blatant bullying by a bigger company with more pull There was no infringement there, the truth is in the type of restaurant they were: a barbecue place. I get the feeling buckees saw a cheap way to shut down potential competition and took it
Isolating the imagery from its context, it does look pretty "badass" to the ignorant. Obviously it's an inappropriate and unfortunate choice, but I can see how it can happen. "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it." Let's hope it doesn't go that far.
Honestly if the Hitler fried chicken incident were to happen anywhere near the BLM era I'm pretty sure it would multiple nuclear wars (one in every country involved) when the NAACP finds out about the incident and inevitably bombs every country that's involved with creating it with the assistance of the US military.
the "Obama Fried Chicken" guy not knowing about the whole US stereotype of "black people like fried chicken" honestly doesn't surprise me. That stereotype isn't even really known here in Europe, so I can't imagine that it's well known in China, of all places! EDIT: The replies are almost 50/50 "How dare you suggest that not everybody everywhere knows this!" and "I'm from X place and I've never heard of this before!" To the first half I say: Please read the other half
Yeah and it’s so upsetting that what was clearly just love for the show, got them $6 mil in debt. Like damn, Paramount, can you NOT sue a small company for $6 mil?? Jesus. As if paramount needs the money
Paramount should have just bought out the business and profited that way That move wouldve also gained great publicity rather than making the company look like soulless greedy mfkers
Right or just let Rusty license the real deal since it was so close go ahead and change the name to Krusty and give Paramount a small cut off of each sale. Idk just seems like something could have been done without them going for the jugular.
Meh, with the way media companies work, it’s easier for them to pilfer the profits from an existing operation that utilized their IP than to put effort into grafting them into the fold.
The Mexican Buc-ee's adapted their chipmunk mascot to have a mullet. I think the change was easy to do cause 'Buc-ee's' pronounced in Spanish sounds similar to 'Bukis', which is a well-known Mexican band renowned for their mullet hairstyles. So that explains the chipmunk wearing a mullet lmaoo
I feel kinda bad for the Rusty Krab. If I had been Viacom, I would have just tried to work with the owners for a limited licesing agreement. Obviously the licensing of something like Spongebob would be pretty high, but you could have everyone win that way. Kinda sad it was sued in such a way.
Yeah, for sure That idea of making a real life Krusty Krab restaurant is really interesting and a very smart business choice on a restaurant franchise since SpongeBob is so famous and recognizable. I guess there are tons of "bootlegs" Krusty Krab-like restaurants across the world, though an american restaurant with that theme would be much greater, and specially the one quoted in the video, that has made its ambiance so spot on, and have been so successful for the time it operated.
Exactly! 6M$ likely bankrupted that lady and her business partner. Discrepensies in law is so wild. I just hope that lady has found another successful business endeavor.
One of Stephen Hillenburg’s requests was for the Krabby Patty to never be made into an actual burger to be sold. It’s unlikely they would ever make a real life Krusty Krab restaurant
As someone who worked in a warehouse where Bukee’s clothes were made, the company isn’t a good place so I’m not shocked over the case against the Gator place. The people who make their clothes are trapped in a warehouse with a lot of questionable things going on.
A massively successful business has shady shit and some bad working conditions in areas of it? Next you’ll be telling me water is wet! In all seriousness though, good thing you got out of there…
That one really seemed like a Fine Bros moment. Like trying to copyright “An Animal on a yellow background looking up.” Just like how Fine Bros tried copywriting Reacting. 😂
the rusty crab girl having to pay 6million is absolute abuse of power and proof that money buys you court wins she did not in anyway damage paramount for the amount of 6mill its a completely made up number to punish her
“Aww, you made a real life version of our restaurant out of love for our cartoons! Go fuck yourself 😂🖕! Enjoy being in debt for expressing your love for us!”
I'm sure the Chinese guy was just trying to think of something American, and what's more American than the charismatic president. No way he knew what he was doing.
plus in china there's a surprising amount of weird obama-themed bootleg stuff, or at least there was a few years ago when i went there. i doubt it was intentionally racist just a strange chinese bootleg trend
Yeah I don't think it was malicious at all. I really think it was just that Obama was basically the face of America for a long time.. and had an outsized impact on Chinese idea of America seeing as China was a huge focus of the government during his presidency.
I've followed the story of Michealsoft Binbows recently. I managed to visit the old store in Maebashi during July this year, getting myself a selfies wearing the t shirt holding the original internet photo.
As a Southeast Asian, it is true that the Holocaust was barely mentioned in history classes. So most people don't even know the crimes that Hitler and the Nazis perpetrated across Europe. In my country specifically, WW2 is never taught at schools, it was only briefly mentioned once in a while when discussing our country's struggle for independence against Japan.
Thailand seems to be a special case in that regard, because they were allied with Japan during WWII and much like Japan seem to ignore that part of their history. The Hitler Fried Chicken is cringe, but not the worst case. In 2011 Thai students organized a Nazi parade, complete with Nazi uniforms (there is one foto of a participant wearing a uniform with swastika patch and a lanyard with a spongebob doll around their neck, looks weird af), large swastika flags and toy guns, among other things. Something like that happened in 2016 again, when university students dressed up as Chinese Red Guards and Adolf Hitler and posed with Nazi salutes for photos. And those were only two cases I could easily find. Oh, and I personally think the SoldatenKaffee in Indonesia is by far worse than Hitler Fried Chicken.
Let’s be real, _certain_ people in our country might sympathize more with Hitler due to their shared objective of wanting the death of all Jews…and gays.
Until you’ve bought Skid Row and Poison cassettes from a box of loose tapes marked with sharpie for $1 at a Missouri flea market in the 80’s, you haven’t experienced the magic of what bootlegging has to offer. So good that it deserves a run-on sentence.
I had a knock off Cyndi Lauper cassette as a kid. How did I know? It was called "She So Unusual" instead of the correct "She's So Unusual". Also have been stuck with bootleg DVD movies off eBay.
@@TheJillianRussell Haha, that’s awesome! I had that album and played it a ton. The cassettes I bought sounded like a Sears portable player that was stuffed in a pillow that was stuffed in a trash can that was underwater. They were so bad! 🤣
What's even funnier about the bootleg Buc-ee's name is that when you pronounce it in Spanish, it sounds familiar (and possibly in reference) to the name, "(Los) Bukis", which is the name of a popular Mexican pop band from the 1970's. If anything, not only would they have been in litigation trouble by the Texas company, but also by the record label that owns Los Bukis.
The Bucees bootleg is extra funny if you understand the cultural implications, in Mexico we actually have a very famous singer Marco Antonio Solis whose nickname is "el buki", he sports a mullet f you were wondering, I think they thought it was a funny coincidence and said well let's combine both without thinking that the original store would try to sue.
The original store can't really do much against it, as long as they don't have a registered trademark in Mexico. They might have been able to make them not use the image, because of copyright reasons, but that's about it.
Wavy, the Buk-IIS in Mexico is using play on words. One for Buc-EES in Texas and the other for a band in Mexico known as “Los Bukis” pronounced (book-eez). That’s why the modified logo has a mullet as the band members all had mullets.
With the whole "Obama Fried Chicken" thing, I truly think the owner of the restaurant was unaware that he was playing into stereotypes. I believe he wanted to become a KFC location, and when he couldn't, decided to make his own version, and Obama was just a popular public figure so he thought it would bring traffic to his place. I still don't condone his actions of it, but I do think he was very unaware that he was playing into super harmful stereotypes, I don't even think he fully understood how much legal trouble he'd get in for making a KFC rip off either
As a Texan, Bucee's popularity comes from their amazing bathrooms and the cooks at the hot bar screaming "BRISKET ON THE TABLE" when they have fresh brisket ready.
As a non Texan, that sounds like a pretty desperate thing to be known for. But who am I to talk, I'm from Chicago, and we have a restaurant called Ed Debevic's that's known for its servers hurling abuse at you.
Am I the only one who thought it was weird that Buccee's stated first and foremost that they're "known for clean restrooms" during that Mexican bootleg incident?
I mean. They are. Have you ever been in their bathroom. Its absolutely mental. Their bathrooms are comically large, bigger than an average gas station convince store, and their so clean you could eat off the floor.
@@PFCMittensare you slow or just dumb? The OP mentioned publicizing the bathrooms of Buc-ees being super clean (in america). Commenter says he can prove by eating off the floor. And the person who is a tard says, he's talking about mexico... No dumby. He is mentioning people using the restroom in america. Not mexico. (I'm sorry for going this deep to explain with someone who is stupid)
The most disturbing Disney bootleg imo was an NES game called The Lion King 5: Timon and Pumba. The Game Over screens showed each character committing suicide (Simba hangs himself, Timon buries himself alive, and Pumba jumps into a pot of boiling water…
I laughed when I saw it was connected to racial stereotypes. 90% of people outside the US still don't know about the chicken fry stereotypes and I only learned it last year randomly and I'm in my 30s and had internet since mid 2000s
@@immapotato1Americans love imposing their racism on foreigners under the guise of "educating" them. It's like that legend about the old Inuit fisherman and the Christian missionary-the old man asks the missionary _"So if I choose not to follow this religion of yours, I go to Hell to be tortured for all eternity?"_ and the missionary says yes, so then he asks _"What if you never told me?"_ and the missionary says _"Oh don't worry, Jesus wouldn't punish somebody who just didn't know"_ and the old man turns and says _"So why the fuck did you tell me?"_
If there was one bootleg that should've been talked about, it would be the vast majority of LEGO bootlegs. Mainly the one I would've focused on would be Lepin, a Chinese bootleg that copied actual sets, got raided, and their boss thrown in jail.
@@toamatoro570mega bloks is pretty distinctive from lego. They got a lot of high dollar licenses like Halo and Call Of Duty. Their minifigures are nowhere close, and they have some different blocks too. Wouldn't really call them a knockoff because they dont try to trick you into thinking they're lego. Look at their Halo sets, its pretty obvious it is not Lego
The idea of the gator logo infringing on Buck’ees is so stupid like it’s barely similar I hate how stringent some companies get with copywrite and it can definitely go to far
He should've included that one story that happened in the UK, it took place in 2017 I believe, but an app on the google play store appeared. It was a "call Blaze and the Monster Machines' app, and some parents downloaded it for their kids. They thought they'd be calling Blaze, but the app was much more evil then that. The call would instead come from someone named Slappy, and Slappy would proceed to say he'd stab you with a knife. Yeah, I feel bad for the kids that had to hear that, thankfully, a lot of parents reported the app and it got removed.
dude there are thousands of disney princess bootleg pregnancy games on girlgame websites its absolutely insane and there's a whole rabbit whole of disgusting feet doctors and dentistry and just the princesses being filthy and weird
They didn't stop because Disney didn't care enough to threaten legal action. If everybody is breaking the law, and nobody is enforcing the law, is it really a law? Those kinds of games really should be stopped, for those apps reaching app stores really is the video-game equivalent of Elsagate.
I like seeing horrible knockoffs and parodies. One of my favorite is when they tried making a knockoff Crash Bandicoot, creating what is known as Fake Crash. And has been a part of the franchise ever since.
Some of the funniest shit I've ever seen has been bootleg merch or theme park statues of Pokemon, Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spider Man, Batman, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Simpsons, He-Man, Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, & Super Mario Brothers.
I liked the Barbie style dolls that had real Barbie heads and a one piece cheap plastic body. I bought them for younger girls that will trash all toys rapidly.
I love local bootleg souvenir stores in tourist towns. I once saw a shirt that had mario characters dressed up as the avengers with the text “super aveng bros” on it. Genuinely great shirt that i wish i could have bought.
I honestly dont understand why Nickelodeon hasn't opened up a chain of Chuckie-Cheese like places that are SpongeBob themed. They have to knowvv they would make sooo much money lolg
Steven's vision for the series was just a be a fun and even educational series for children and the last thing he wanted was for nickelodeon to turn it into a corporate cash cow. As fun as that might be Steven wanted this series to remain small and humble and Nick has already ruined this plenty
@@catholiccontriversyhe also didn't want more SpongeBob movies after the first but now that he's dead Nickelodeon can do whatever they want with the franchise
LMAO it's crazy how the Rusty Krab even kept Mr.Krab's financial attitude with them with how expensive that menu was 😂😂😂, just like in the show... Truly accurate 💀
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The reason the mullet was placed on the redesigned Mexican "buk-iis" is because there is a famous singer nicknamed "el buki", from that same state of Michoacán where the store was, who famously has rocked a mullet since birth
That person who said "This video game will ruin Frozen and scar you for life" is so fragile. The amount of weird flash games I played as a kid is staggering and they never affected me in the slightest.
Love your videos. You create content for people like me that are too strange for normal interests but too normal for strange interests. Always hits the spot.
Aww the Rusty Krab restaurant was adorable, but should’ve done her homework. Shame they couldn’t make a deal with her b/c I would’ve definitely take my family to visit!
I am pretty sure the owners knew exactly what they were doing. The restaurant was owned by Pixi Universal, an LLC (limited liability company), so that woman and her partner(s, there was atleast one, who was also shown in this video) only lost the money they already invested into this LLC. They probably made quite some money from this.
Corporations don't make deals, they have zero interest in working with others. They only care about maximizing profits even if there are no profits to be had, just theoretical possible future-profits. They prefer to stop others from benefiting over _maybe_ losing a tiny fraction of a penny of money in the future. They hate the idea of someone else making money from their own thing even though they'll happily steal from others left and right. Disney is the biggest and most blatant offender.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodoThey definitely doubt they made anywhere close to what they owe in the lawsuit. It was a single location open for a few weeks and hardly anyone heard of it before it shut down.
@@Regu269 It was open for multiple years (five-ish) and they even sold tickets. And as I wrote, it was an LLC, so they owe nothing, the LLC does. The LLC goes bust and that's it, everybody who is owed money gets nothing.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo it was open for about 1 year while covid restrictions were in place. And individual can still be held liable for the damages of an llc
Props to the Rusty Krab though for making it seem like Mr. Krabs legit owns the damn place with the ridiculous prices and all of that. Gotta get that true experience
As much as I hate modern SpongeBob, it was pretty impressive for the Rusty Krab but I’m sure we can all learn this lesson that I like to tell other people: NICKELODEON, PARAMOUNT AND VIACOM FUCK THEM
i definitely don’t believe that Obama Fried Chicken was rooted in any racial stereotype or prejudice. i honestly think it was a wholesome yet morally gray mix of knowing that KFC was american and that obama was the american president, alongside admiration for obama
Yeah, that was a case most likely. As one thing that is important to remember, the rest of the world are not obsessed with races so much, and racist stereotypes that US produces are mostly US exclusive.
Here in Paraguay we have Mickey food products, with the logo including Mickey Mouse's face. It seems it was registered before Disney was copyrighted here, so the inevitable lawsuit ended in nothing.
The paradox of limits fostering innovation. When you are free to do whatever you want, you can't decide. When you have to make a bootleg version of something the original design constrains you and you come up with ways to make it different within those constraints.
on the 'nazi-chic' topic, I went to Japan in 2014 and there was a visual kei band my friend and I went to see because we'd been given free tickets at a gig the previous night, and the band were wearing Nazi inspired outfits and tried very hard to get us to Nazi salute (we stood out being the only foreigners there) to the music and all the fans were doing it... we're both british and it was very uncomfortable 😬 there were quite a few visual kei bands who used nazi theming in their stage costumes in the past, not sure how much it's used now-a-days, but it was explained to me by some japanese fans that japan didnt teach much about world war two because japan had been on the nazi's side and they didn't want to teach it now because it made them look bad. i guess the same way many countries sweep their past atrocities under the rug (like here in the UK when I was in school and did history through GCSE we weren't taught anything about our colonization and attempts at it across most of the world, it was mostly romans invasion of the UK and then world war 2)
the visual kei scene was so rife with the nazi stuff it's crazy. it's hard being a fan of niche 90s bands and being like "this band is really good but please don't look up photoshoots of them bc they've worn nazi uniforms for shock value". very unfortunate part of the scene
@@Sunshineattacks3I guess it’s an aesthetic kind of like Sanrio is popular in the West as well. They like the imagery but don’t do the research behind it. The nazis did a lot of research in how to make the best propaganda and the most compelling imagery and uniforms after all
@@Sunshineattacks3 I guess it's mainly the visuals and that it's somewhat of a taboo topic, but (for Japan atleast) a somewhat safe one. I mean, Hugo Boss has always been a good designer...
I’m really happy the Obama fried chicken guy had no clue about the stereotype he brought up. It means the world is slowly changing and moving away from those ancient ways of thought
Yeah it's like the edgy parodies except It's money based using trendy topics instead of fans making funny stuff for free, also edgy for clicks and deception, not for humor like the old good stuff.
@@LikaLaruku not the first one, and only counts once per channel owner, if you report a channel that's owned by someone who owns other 5 channels it counts as 1
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6 million dollars is ridiculous, did the owner of the Rusty Crab even make that much money off of it? I think Paramount should've just bought it from her and expanded on it instead.
Or, they could have simply asked Paramount for a licensing agreement. Or took the cease and desist, when Paramount sent it to them as an easy out. They didn't do either of that, so I don't see where this is Paramount's fault. Paramount had no other choice but to sue them and the damages are normally calculated using the estimated value of the IP that was infringed upon.
I can't edit my previous comment, so here is another one: I am pretty sure the owners didn't lose much from this and Paramount is never going to get much of the money they are owed. The restaurant was owned by Pixi Universal, LLC, a limited liability company. That was also the company Paramount sued. With an LLC the owners are only liable with the money they invested in said company, not with their private funds. And with the LLC probably not even owning the building the restaurant was in I doubt there were many funds Paramount could seize.
5:00 WTF, how is that justified? The two logos aren't similar at all and I don't know how they ever won that lawsuit. Concepts aren't copyrightable. Shame on you for defending the clear abuse of IP to bully a competitor.
Despite my dislike of watching many kids shows, my kinderkids from my intern class were abashed to find out I'd never seen Bluey and so I spent an afternoon watching the little dogs with them lol
It's crazy to me that more clean gas stations don't open up. That's all we want. A clean pooper, maybe some decent food goods and a safe feeling environment. If I could afford it, I would do the same.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodoshould be no reason why you can't do both. Like a phone case, I want it to hold my phone AND my cards. Yknow. Just gotta have it all in one place
@@ShortSpark756 No. If I want to buy gas, I want to be in and out of there in no time and don't want to wait for someone to pay for their week's shopping.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodoWho in the flying fuck actually pays for gas with cash these days? O_o If all you need is gas, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO INSIDE DUMBASS! 🤦😑
There is a small Polish grocery store in my town called Lasuch that uses a Smurf with a surfboard as their mascot. You can even see the Smurf if you look up screenshots of the shop. They have gotten away with it for 4-5 years so far. There is also a window cleanining service that uses Gaston Lagaffe (a French comic book character) as their mascot, though i don't know how long they have been around for. I see their work truck pretty regularly though.
6:00 FYI The mexican bootleg buckees is playing with the name of a popular mexican singer known as "el bucky" This singer is known for his trademark mullet hairstyle. So theyre ripping off : 1) buckees 2)el bucky 3) dale from disney's chip &dale Stuff like this is why i love mexican culture. Also, there a popular meme called "imagine being born in switzerland and missing out on stuff like this" Where people use that caption to showcase random weird mexican stuff just like this.
There's a wallpaper version of the Michaelsoft Binbows sign. Once, i spent all my time in a Best Buy changing the walpapers of their Windows machines to it. Funny stuff.
im surprised that 'The Copycats' episode from TAWOG didnt make the list, considering it was kinda big... for the few that don't know: some animators in China wanted to advertise some product via a cartoon, but they copied TAWOG characters to do so (tweaked obv, but kept the same premise)... CN caught wind of it & iirc put out a C&D, but China didnt follow through... So TAWOG took it in their own hands & released a few episodes specifically targeting them, basically saying "oh you like to copy? copy this then bitch" (TAWOG made an episode referencing the TSM, self explanatory) i have no fuckin clue what happened to those animators now
I think it's hilarious when parents complain on social media about how people can turn kid shows into twisted nightmares. It really drives home that 1) parents aren't smart enough to discern or research that any kid show that pops up on a random RUclips channel isn't the real thing, 2) they act like they haven't been on internet long enough to realize that the internet is still the wild west, or 3) they truly don't want to spend time with their own kids
21:14 the reason why Paramount doesn't want to open a Real Life Krusty Krab is bc Steven Hillenburg didn't want to bc it would ruin the magic of spongebob and the Krabby Patty especially if the food comes out not being so good. But yet again Paramount might actually do it since they already stomped on his Legacy.
Let’s break our kids’ toys to show them that leaving those toys lying everywhere is a bad idea! Also, kids can learn about dinosaurs from that creepy old neighbor, he’s probably a paleontologist.
In "Born a Crime" by Trevor Noah, he mentions a fad of naming kids "Hitler" in Johannesburg back in the 80's, 90's, amongst those who knew nothing about the dictator aside from him being a "strong, powerful leader." One time he was doing a dance performance and his classmate Hitler started busting it out on the dance floor, and the crowd chanted "go Hitler! Go Hitler!" At the dance, which took place at a Jewish school. Trevor said he learned some lessons that day.
I’m surprised that “The Autobots” creators didn’t get lawsuits from the creators of the transformers franchise since “autobots” also refers to characters like bumblebee and optimus prime.
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Shave your head and become a skinhead
My man tryin to gaslight us again.😆
You mentioned NIKE isn't American. It's Chinese owned 😅
New practices in poultry farming involve gassing.
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Bucees suing that gator BBQ place is like if the apple sued the pineapple.
The apple might have a case
The pineapple is a limited edition collab (pine x apple) hypebeast drop 💯
Yeah, I remember being upset when they changed the logo to a cowboy. I worked there lol
This is exactly why the restaurant "Pineapple Hornets" does not exist. This and no other cinconceivable reason
@@HoodLumBlockno, they’re a completely different fruit that has only been called by some colonials & their descendants as pineapple or piña instead of ananas.
The Rusty Krab wasn't overpriced, it was "lore accurate"
bro swear
I would've loved it tbh
arent krusty krab burgers super cheap?
@@thaq_The newer episodes are inconsistent with the older ones where that _was_ the case. 🤷🏻♀️
True 😂
We had a production company in Germany named Dingo Pictures, which would make so hilariously bad Disney ripoffs, that they couldn't even sue them for, because the movies were so unrecognisable. It's some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen😂
Are they same "YEE" guys?
@@idrinktea420 Yes.
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Not even joking I think I’ve seen one of them
Yee sequel
WHo else thinks that the whole Choke Canyon courts decisions was BS? I mean, the name is completely different from Buccees and the animal in the logo was completely different.
Oh, a cartoon animal character looking up to the left? Oh no, that’s a completely original idea that no one, outside of Bucees, has ever came up with.
don't forget, Buc-ee's mascot was looking up and to the left on a YELLOW background, too. VERY original! Lmao@@skittlemilks1614
Exactly. That's such a stretch. They just had more money.
I'm glad someone else thinks so, blatant bullying by a bigger company with more pull
There was no infringement there, the truth is in the type of restaurant they were: a barbecue place.
I get the feeling buckees saw a cheap way to shut down potential competition and took it
America moment 😂
"It was using Hitler to further its chicken selling goals"
Right there is a sentence I didn't expect to hear tonight.
Me either 😂
Isolating the imagery from its context, it does look pretty "badass" to the ignorant.
Obviously it's an inappropriate and unfortunate choice, but I can see how it can happen.
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it." Let's hope it doesn't go that far.
Honestly if the Hitler fried chicken incident were to happen anywhere near the BLM era I'm pretty sure it would multiple nuclear wars (one in every country involved) when the NAACP finds out about the incident and inevitably bombs every country that's involved with creating it with the assistance of the US military.
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I thought it said fuhrer
the "Obama Fried Chicken" guy not knowing about the whole US stereotype of "black people like fried chicken" honestly doesn't surprise me. That stereotype isn't even really known here in Europe, so I can't imagine that it's well known in China, of all places!
EDIT: The replies are almost 50/50 "How dare you suggest that not everybody everywhere knows this!" and "I'm from X place and I've never heard of this before!"
To the first half I say: Please read the other half
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Wait, that’s a stereotype? Wth…
I didn’t know that was a stereotype
It’s a stereotype only in the US
I didn’t even think of that aspect, I just thought he just liked Obama
The Rusty Krab was too on the nose to be parody. Damned shame because it was pretty clearly a labor of love.
Yeah and it’s so upsetting that what was clearly just love for the show, got them $6 mil in debt. Like damn, Paramount, can you NOT sue a small company for $6 mil?? Jesus. As if paramount needs the money
Paramount should have just bought out the business and profited that way
That move wouldve also gained great publicity rather than making the company look like soulless greedy mfkers
Right or just let Rusty license the real deal since it was so close go ahead and change the name to Krusty and give Paramount a small cut off of each sale. Idk just seems like something could have been done without them going for the jugular.
Meh, with the way media companies work, it’s easier for them to pilfer the profits from an existing operation that utilized their IP than to put effort into grafting them into the fold.
@@daliahmeadow5257straight up, probably financially ruined them for the rest of their lives. Pretty fucked up.
The Mexican Buc-ee's adapted their chipmunk mascot to have a mullet. I think the change was easy to do cause 'Buc-ee's' pronounced in Spanish sounds similar to 'Bukis', which is a well-known Mexican band renowned for their mullet hairstyles. So that explains the chipmunk wearing a mullet lmaoo
That's actually really clever.
I feel kinda bad for the Rusty Krab. If I had been Viacom, I would have just tried to work with the owners for a limited licesing agreement. Obviously the licensing of something like Spongebob would be pretty high, but you could have everyone win that way. Kinda sad it was sued in such a way.
Yeah, for sure
That idea of making a real life Krusty Krab restaurant is really interesting and a very smart business choice on a restaurant franchise since SpongeBob is so famous and recognizable.
I guess there are tons of "bootlegs" Krusty Krab-like restaurants across the world, though an american restaurant with that theme would be much greater, and specially the one quoted in the video, that has made its ambiance so spot on, and have been so successful for the time it operated.
They made her pay 6 million wtf 💀
Exactly! 6M$ likely bankrupted that lady and her business partner. Discrepensies in law is so wild. I just hope that lady has found another successful business endeavor.
One of Stephen Hillenburg’s requests was for the Krabby Patty to never be made into an actual burger to be sold. It’s unlikely they would ever make a real life Krusty Krab restaurant
@@Mooms From the future , Wendy's is going to make a Krabby Patty meal later this month.
As someone who worked in a warehouse where Bukee’s clothes were made, the company isn’t a good place so I’m not shocked over the case against the Gator place. The people who make their clothes are trapped in a warehouse with a lot of questionable things going on.
I'm sadly not surprised man. I hope you are In a better spot now.
What kind of things?
@@hoidoei941osha violations probably. Likely very restricted for the employees
cap
A massively successful business has shady shit and some bad working conditions in areas of it? Next you’ll be telling me water is wet!
In all seriousness though, good thing you got out of there…
The alligator logo one is awful😂 How did they even think it was copying them. They're not even looking in the same direction
That one really seemed like a Fine Bros moment. Like trying to copyright “An Animal on a yellow background looking up.” Just like how Fine Bros tried copywriting Reacting. 😂
Can't believe they actually won a case against them
11:39 The cut from Obama KFC to Hitler KFC might be the funniest editing I've ever seen
it cuts to fake jordans
the rusty crab girl having to pay 6million is absolute abuse of power and proof that money buys you court wins she did not in anyway damage paramount for the amount of 6mill its a completely made up number to punish her
“Aww, you made a real life version of our restaurant out of love for our cartoons! Go fuck yourself 😂🖕! Enjoy being in debt for expressing your love for us!”
That’s exactly what I was thinking. 6 mill is absolutely nuts. Pretty sure that ruined her life
Got her ass🤣🤣
@@linkthastink what would she even do? Like she definitely can’t pay it right?
Oh, you've been a fan of SpongeBob since childhood and have dedicated your restaurant to it? No, I am going to absolutely ruin your life
I'm sure the Chinese guy was just trying to think of something American, and what's more American than the charismatic president. No way he knew what he was doing.
He was earnest and no one got hurt. It’s really funny when you think about it
plus in china there's a surprising amount of weird obama-themed bootleg stuff, or at least there was a few years ago when i went there. i doubt it was intentionally racist just a strange chinese bootleg trend
Yeah I don't think it was malicious at all. I really think it was just that Obama was basically the face of America for a long time.. and had an outsized impact on Chinese idea of America seeing as China was a huge focus of the government during his presidency.
Agreed, as an Asian myself, I don't understand why loving fried chicken is an African-American stereotype. Anyone care to explain?
@@gilangwahyuagung2530as an American I honestly can't explain why.
I've followed the story of Michealsoft Binbows recently. I managed to visit the old store in Maebashi during July this year, getting myself a selfies wearing the t shirt holding the original internet photo.
As a Southeast Asian, it is true that the Holocaust was barely mentioned in history classes. So most people don't even know the crimes that Hitler and the Nazis perpetrated across Europe. In my country specifically, WW2 is never taught at schools, it was only briefly mentioned once in a while when discussing our country's struggle for independence against Japan.
Thailand seems to be a special case in that regard, because they were allied with Japan during WWII and much like Japan seem to ignore that part of their history. The Hitler Fried Chicken is cringe, but not the worst case. In 2011 Thai students organized a Nazi parade, complete with Nazi uniforms (there is one foto of a participant wearing a uniform with swastika patch and a lanyard with a spongebob doll around their neck, looks weird af), large swastika flags and toy guns, among other things. Something like that happened in 2016 again, when university students dressed up as Chinese Red Guards and Adolf Hitler and posed with Nazi salutes for photos. And those were only two cases I could easily find.
Oh, and I personally think the SoldatenKaffee in Indonesia is by far worse than Hitler Fried Chicken.
Let’s be real, _certain_ people in our country might sympathize more with Hitler due to their shared objective of wanting the death of all Jews…and gays.
'Muricans are so self-centered, they don't realize the rest of the world might be different. 🤷
@@MyRegardsToTheDodowhats soldatenkaffee?
Does Japan have it's own Panamá?
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Until you’ve bought Skid Row and Poison cassettes from a box of loose tapes marked with sharpie for $1 at a Missouri flea market in the 80’s, you haven’t experienced the magic of what bootlegging has to offer. So good that it deserves a run-on sentence.
I had a knock off Cyndi Lauper cassette as a kid. How did I know? It was called "She So Unusual" instead of the correct "She's So Unusual". Also have been stuck with bootleg DVD movies off eBay.
Or the biggest bootleggers of all... Grateful Dead
@@TheJillianRussell Haha, that’s awesome! I had that album and played it a ton. The cassettes I bought sounded like a Sears portable player that was stuffed in a pillow that was stuffed in a trash can that was underwater. They were so bad! 🤣
That seems like a perfectly good use of prepositional phrases and a compound sentence 😅
It’s the same as downloading a track labeled “In The End” by “Lincoln” Park from limewire and getting porn.
I saw HFC before, but I thought it was photo shopped. I find it hilarious that it actually existed and somebody thought it would be a good idea 💀
In the USA people think its awesome to wear Che Guevara shirts. I have a cuban friend who can tell you otherwise. (:
@@AmstradExin I'm not from the USA, what is that?
@@AmstradExin Also in the USA, Neo-Nazis exist because some people are really awful & dumb edgelords.
@@AmstradExinwhy do you assume everyone is from the US 😂?
@@monke610I belive Che Guevara was the man who tried to overthrow the Cuban goverment during the Cold War, along with Fidel Castro
Bootlegs are such an interesting topic to me in the marketing world, seeing how they're such massive middle fingers towards copyright laws.
most of them probably dont have that in mind at all, just trying to steal clientele. its not some punk rocks bs, lol.
@@omnitravis for every Freedoom there's 10 Harry Potter Obama the Hedgehogs
Also a massive finger to the original creator they’re ripping off..
@@omnitravisthat’s so superficial of you to say, think deeper your brain will thank you
@@Weldedhodag that's one damn clear hedgehog.
Disney takes the whole "rules for thee but not for me" to a whole new level.
Disney is the reason for such bs copyright laws in the first place. Look it up, they extended public domain for almost a century.
What's even funnier about the bootleg Buc-ee's name is that when you pronounce it in Spanish, it sounds familiar (and possibly in reference) to the name, "(Los) Bukis", which is the name of a popular Mexican pop band from the 1970's. If anything, not only would they have been in litigation trouble by the Texas company, but also by the record label that owns Los Bukis.
The Bucees bootleg is extra funny if you understand the cultural implications, in Mexico we actually have a very famous singer Marco Antonio Solis whose nickname is "el buki", he sports a mullet f you were wondering, I think they thought it was a funny coincidence and said well let's combine both without thinking that the original store would try to sue.
The original store can't really do much against it, as long as they don't have a registered trademark in Mexico. They might have been able to make them not use the image, because of copyright reasons, but that's about it.
First thing that popped into my head was quireme by the bukis
Oh, gracias por explicarlo.
Wavy, the Buk-IIS in Mexico is using play on words. One for Buc-EES in Texas and the other for a band in Mexico known as “Los Bukis” pronounced (book-eez). That’s why the modified logo has a mullet as the band members all had mullets.
Yupp
i just commented something similar without knowing you already did 😅
They should also be pretty safe, as long as Buc-ee's doesn't have a registered trademark in Mexico.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodobro they paint Goku on taco stands, don't think they care
@@PFCMittensGoku is like a religious figure for them.
You ain't going to stop them.
With the whole "Obama Fried Chicken" thing, I truly think the owner of the restaurant was unaware that he was playing into stereotypes. I believe he wanted to become a KFC location, and when he couldn't, decided to make his own version, and Obama was just a popular public figure so he thought it would bring traffic to his place. I still don't condone his actions of it, but I do think he was very unaware that he was playing into super harmful stereotypes, I don't even think he fully understood how much legal trouble he'd get in for making a KFC rip off either
As a Texan, Bucee's popularity comes from their amazing bathrooms and the cooks at the hot bar screaming "BRISKET ON THE TABLE" when they have fresh brisket ready.
They pay their employees really well too
@@Labyrinth6000 not well for the pay; they work them like dogs.
As a non Texan, that sounds like a pretty desperate thing to be known for. But who am I to talk, I'm from Chicago, and we have a restaurant called Ed Debevic's that's known for its servers hurling abuse at you.
When we go on road trips
buc-ee’s is a must. I love the food there and it’s a great place to stretch your legs. I love their colachees.
I thought Ed’s closed ages ago. We used to have one in Milwaukee, miss their fries.
Am I the only one who thought it was weird that Buccee's stated first and foremost that they're "known for clean restrooms" during that Mexican bootleg incident?
I mean. They are. Have you ever been in their bathroom. Its absolutely mental. Their bathrooms are comically large, bigger than an average gas station convince store, and their so clean you could eat off the floor.
@@CleetusDaFetus you can't read or what? The remark was on Mexicos bootleg, not buckees restroom
@@PFCMittens jesse what the fuck are you talking about
@@PFCMittensare you slow or just dumb? The OP mentioned publicizing the bathrooms of Buc-ees being super clean (in america). Commenter says he can prove by eating off the floor.
And the person who is a tard says, he's talking about mexico... No dumby. He is mentioning people using the restroom in america. Not mexico.
(I'm sorry for going this deep to explain with someone who is stupid)
@@CleetusDaFetuswhat if the restrooms were clean in the knock off bucees?
ww1:wrong way
ww2:got rejected from art school
ww3:got rejected by fried chicken school
The most disturbing Disney bootleg imo was an NES game called The Lion King 5: Timon and Pumba. The Game Over screens showed each character committing suicide (Simba hangs himself, Timon buries himself alive, and Pumba jumps into a pot of boiling water…
Well, you know what they say, there's a Circle of Life and a Circle of Death.
I had just commented about this game, lol
The company responsible for the game is called Dragon Co. It's pretty interesting to see their history, even though it's quite obscure
@@skld-xm oh yeah for sure, I've seen some RUclips videos on them in the past
What a great JonTron vid
I would totally eat at Obama Fried Chicken. That story is both funny and a little wholesome
I laughed when I saw it was connected to racial stereotypes. 90% of people outside the US still don't know about the chicken fry stereotypes and I only learned it last year randomly and I'm in my 30s and had internet since mid 2000s
@@immapotato1Americans love imposing their racism on foreigners under the guise of "educating" them.
It's like that legend about the old Inuit fisherman and the Christian missionary-the old man asks the missionary _"So if I choose not to follow this religion of yours, I go to Hell to be tortured for all eternity?"_ and the missionary says yes, so then he asks _"What if you never told me?"_ and the missionary says _"Oh don't worry, Jesus wouldn't punish somebody who just didn't know"_ and the old man turns and says _"So why the fuck did you tell me?"_
Meh, who would want to eat anything associated with either Barry or his MOHAP?? 🤢🤮
@@MAGGOT_VOMITdogshit bait
@@cesj1 👈😆 Cry harder, troon-soi.
I’m a racist and I didn’t even think that “Obama Fried Chicken” was offensive in any way until you pointed it out.
Bro wth?
@@7TheS7arvingAn1mat6r what
If there was one bootleg that should've been talked about, it would be the vast majority of LEGO bootlegs. Mainly the one I would've focused on would be Lepin, a Chinese bootleg that copied actual sets, got raided, and their boss thrown in jail.
Lego bootlegs are awesome, considering how much Lego price gouges for their plastic bricks.
🗿
There's another pretty prominent one called "Mega Bloks".
@@toamatoro570 mega bloks is its own thing not a bootleg, they have their own designs and figures
@@toamatoro570mega bloks is pretty distinctive from lego. They got a lot of high dollar licenses like Halo and Call Of Duty. Their minifigures are nowhere close, and they have some different blocks too. Wouldn't really call them a knockoff because they dont try to trick you into thinking they're lego. Look at their Halo sets, its pretty obvious it is not Lego
The "Autobots" film itself not only got you a secondhand embarrassment, but also getting mocked by Chinese media itself
If Chinese Media are mocking a Chinese Rip-Off, that's how you know the people responsible for this thing screwed up big time. 😂
16:24 I have never heard anyone explain the plot of Spongebob and sound so serious at the same time
Gawd damn I love Bootlegs. The Sonic Obama backpack is 10/10
The Frog and Toad “Fuck the Police” shirt is peak
The idea of the gator logo infringing on Buck’ees is so stupid like it’s barely similar I hate how stringent some companies get with copywrite and it can definitely go to far
Yeah, honestly even with the similarities it’s different enough. I would never look at that other logo, and think about Buckees at all
Apparently the lawyers of Choke Canyon were barred from being able to show their evidence to the judge. Seems like Bucees paid off the court.
He should've included that one story that happened in the UK, it took place in 2017 I believe, but an app on the google play store appeared. It was a "call Blaze and the Monster Machines' app, and some parents downloaded it for their kids. They thought they'd be calling Blaze, but the app was much more evil then that. The call would instead come from someone named Slappy, and Slappy would proceed to say he'd stab you with a knife. Yeah, I feel bad for the kids that had to hear that, thankfully, a lot of parents reported the app and it got removed.
They done stole the Goosebumps prank phone call app and slapped a monster truck on it
am i supposed to know who or what "blaze" is?
@@SilentOnionjust know its a truck character on nick jr
dude there are thousands of disney princess bootleg pregnancy games on girlgame websites its absolutely insane and there's a whole rabbit whole of disgusting feet doctors and dentistry and just the princesses being filthy and weird
Jontron did one of them for his Disney bootleg video.
Two words
'Child Predators'
They didn't stop because Disney didn't care enough to threaten legal action. If everybody is breaking the law, and nobody is enforcing the law, is it really a law? Those kinds of games really should be stopped, for those apps reaching app stores really is the video-game equivalent of Elsagate.
They also make bootleg Barbie, Minions, Peppa Pig, Dora the Explorer, My Little Pony, and PAW Patrol games.
I like seeing horrible knockoffs and parodies. One of my favorite is when they tried making a knockoff Crash Bandicoot, creating what is known as Fake Crash. And has been a part of the franchise ever since.
They thought it was so bad they added him to the games to literally make him a joke
I love it
Some of the funniest shit I've ever seen has been bootleg merch or theme park statues of Pokemon, Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spider Man, Batman, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Simpsons, He-Man, Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, & Super Mario Brothers.
@@LikaLaruku or like those children rides in some shopping centres (as an example)
They adopted a knock off into their actual universe? That's pretty genius.
@@TroboTicTacfaxx
11:45 SHIT WENT FROM 0 TO 100 REAL QUICK
My local dollar store is always a veritable treasure trove of goofy knock-off products. It's always fun to just browse and see what you turn up.
A few things I’ve seen: Hogu Boos cologne. Pocketmon plushies. Sorny Funstation.
@@Psyopcyclops Oh, yeah. The stuff you come across is just stupid funny.
I liked the Barbie style dolls that had real Barbie heads and a one piece cheap plastic body. I bought them for younger girls that will trash all toys rapidly.
@@sydneyfairbairn3773 He-Man figures with Barbie heads. Those are awesome.
I love local bootleg souvenir stores in tourist towns. I once saw a shirt that had mario characters dressed up as the avengers with the text “super aveng bros” on it. Genuinely great shirt that i wish i could have bought.
14:10 that "The Killers" shirt is actually hilarious. I wouldn't wear it, but I almost fell outta my chair laughing when it popped on the screen.
I honestly dont understand why Nickelodeon hasn't opened up a chain of Chuckie-Cheese like places that are SpongeBob themed. They have to knowvv they would make sooo much money lolg
Steven Hillenburg, he said "there will never be a real life krabby patty and similar."
Steven's vision for the series was just a be a fun and even educational series for children and the last thing he wanted was for nickelodeon to turn it into a corporate cash cow. As fun as that might be Steven wanted this series to remain small and humble and Nick has already ruined this plenty
@@catholiccontriversyhe also didn't want more SpongeBob movies after the first but now that he's dead Nickelodeon can do whatever they want with the franchise
@@catholiccontriversy bruh the real life krabby patty is a cheeseburger
@@bloopblopglip if you want a painted krabby patty go in los Vegas and find sugar factory.
LMAO it's crazy how the Rusty Krab even kept Mr.Krab's financial attitude with them with how expensive that menu was 😂😂😂, just like in the show... Truly accurate 💀
I've been on RUclips since around 2010 and have gone through many phases of channels I like. Your channel is the first time in years that I've been hooked for days. Love the content, love the style. Thank you for all your work and long days!
Do i have interest in bootlegs? No. Am i excited to see a new Wavy. Yes.
Exactly
I love bootleg stuff. It’s funny seeing what people come up with. I just bought a bootleg Pepe the frog pikachu
Same I got interest in then as well
@@CEOofWasraelpepekachu
I'm interested in a Wavy bootleg RUclipsr
I tend to go to youtube for background noise while I play video games and I gotta say you make terrible background noise because you make your videos so damn interesting lol, keep up the great work!!!
13:13 I could have not said it better myself. Keep up the good work bud!
The reason the mullet was placed on the redesigned Mexican "buk-iis" is because there is a famous singer nicknamed "el buki", from that same state of Michoacán where the store was, who famously has rocked a mullet since birth
How can they claim that the Rusty Crab did 6 million in damages to paramount? What is their evidence?
Check the judge's bank account and you'll see
They can’t, that’s the thing. Our “laws” and “justice” system are fucked
You don’t mess with IP. Stealing the IP itself was damaging.
@@AL-lh2ht sure it was. free advertising is so harmful!
@@AL-lh2ht"stealing"
That person who said "This video game will ruin Frozen and scar you for life" is so fragile. The amount of weird flash games I played as a kid is staggering and they never affected me in the slightest.
Love your videos. You create content for people like me that are too strange for normal interests but too normal for strange interests. Always hits the spot.
Aww the Rusty Krab restaurant was adorable, but should’ve done her homework. Shame they couldn’t make a deal with her b/c I would’ve definitely take my family to visit!
I am pretty sure the owners knew exactly what they were doing. The restaurant was owned by Pixi Universal, an LLC (limited liability company), so that woman and her partner(s, there was atleast one, who was also shown in this video) only lost the money they already invested into this LLC. They probably made quite some money from this.
Corporations don't make deals, they have zero interest in working with others. They only care about maximizing profits even if there are no profits to be had, just theoretical possible future-profits. They prefer to stop others from benefiting over _maybe_ losing a tiny fraction of a penny of money in the future. They hate the idea of someone else making money from their own thing even though they'll happily steal from others left and right. Disney is the biggest and most blatant offender.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodoThey definitely doubt they made anywhere close to what they owe in the lawsuit. It was a single location open for a few weeks and hardly anyone heard of it before it shut down.
@@Regu269 It was open for multiple years (five-ish) and they even sold tickets. And as I wrote, it was an LLC, so they owe nothing, the LLC does. The LLC goes bust and that's it, everybody who is owed money gets nothing.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo it was open for about 1 year while covid restrictions were in place. And individual can still be held liable for the damages of an llc
The fact that 7 GRAND DAD is not include in the list of illegal bootlegs that broke the Internet is a real crime.
Fleenstones
God the menu on the Rusty Krab is HEAVILY on point with the Spongebob brand and so on the nose with Mr. Krabs's character. I love it haha.
Props to the Rusty Krab though for making it seem like Mr. Krabs legit owns the damn place with the ridiculous prices and all of that.
Gotta get that true experience
I feel like many people would feel a mixture of outraged and impressed. I know I would have.
I'm your 200th liker here & bye.
As much as I hate modern SpongeBob, it was pretty impressive for the Rusty Krab but I’m sure we can all learn this lesson that I like to tell other people:
NICKELODEON, PARAMOUNT AND VIACOM
FUCK THEM
They could have made the menu a prop to parody Mr Krabs' menu
bro your keeps ad might be the most effective anti-ad of all time
Makes me realize that if you want to protest a company buy the bootlegs instead
It’s what is queers and trans allies do with Harry Potter stuff lol
i definitely don’t believe that Obama Fried Chicken was rooted in any racial stereotype or prejudice. i honestly think it was a wholesome yet morally gray mix of knowing that KFC was american and that obama was the american president, alongside admiration for obama
Agreed
Yeah, that was a case most likely. As one thing that is important to remember, the rest of the world are not obsessed with races so much, and racist stereotypes that US produces are mostly US exclusive.
Here in Paraguay we have Mickey food products, with the logo including Mickey Mouse's face. It seems it was registered before Disney was copyrighted here, so the inevitable lawsuit ended in nothing.
"The imagination of bootleggers is endless."
Wait.....that doesn't seem right.
It doesn't, but if they can come up with all this stuff, why can't they come up with their own ideas 🤣🤣
@@kerensa7349 because bootlegs are more profitable.
It these bootlegs werent bootlegs they wouldn't have appeared in this video.
The paradox of limits fostering innovation. When you are free to do whatever you want, you can't decide. When you have to make a bootleg version of something the original design constrains you and you come up with ways to make it different within those constraints.
@@kerensa7349 Because in a way, they're like hilarious profitable fanfiction.
on the 'nazi-chic' topic, I went to Japan in 2014 and there was a visual kei band my friend and I went to see because we'd been given free tickets at a gig the previous night, and the band were wearing Nazi inspired outfits and tried very hard to get us to Nazi salute (we stood out being the only foreigners there) to the music and all the fans were doing it... we're both british and it was very uncomfortable 😬 there were quite a few visual kei bands who used nazi theming in their stage costumes in the past, not sure how much it's used now-a-days, but it was explained to me by some japanese fans that japan didnt teach much about world war two because japan had been on the nazi's side and they didn't want to teach it now because it made them look bad. i guess the same way many countries sweep their past atrocities under the rug (like here in the UK when I was in school and did history through GCSE we weren't taught anything about our colonization and attempts at it across most of the world, it was mostly romans invasion of the UK and then world war 2)
the visual kei scene was so rife with the nazi stuff it's crazy. it's hard being a fan of niche 90s bands and being like "this band is really good but please don't look up photoshoots of them bc they've worn nazi uniforms for shock value". very unfortunate part of the scene
No wonder not many Japanese know about Nanjing
So what exactly do they like about the Nazis though? Is it just the visuals of it, like the uniform?
@@Sunshineattacks3I guess it’s an aesthetic kind of like Sanrio is popular in the West as well. They like the imagery but don’t do the research behind it. The nazis did a lot of research in how to make the best propaganda and the most compelling imagery and uniforms after all
@@Sunshineattacks3 I guess it's mainly the visuals and that it's somewhat of a taboo topic, but (for Japan atleast) a somewhat safe one. I mean, Hugo Boss has always been a good designer...
I’m really happy the Obama fried chicken guy had no clue about the stereotype he brought up. It means the world is slowly changing and moving away from those ancient ways of thought
damn, people back then were really OBSESSED with obama 😭😭😭
Kid: "Mom, I want to watch Cars!"
Mom: "We have cars at home."
Cars at home: 29:25
Using hitler as your knockoff kfc mascot is like using pol pot to advertise your taco shop.
The flash-style Bluey is too funny.
I remember being a kid long before youtube and watching animation like that all the time.
Yeah it's like the edgy parodies except It's money based using trendy topics instead of fans making funny stuff for free, also edgy for clicks and deception, not for humor like the old good stuff.
I like how he seriously explains the Krusty Krab's backstory in detail.
Bro's a Spongebob fan like us. He's passionate about it.
*sees ofc* "ok thats pretty unfortunate" *sees hfc pop up next* "HOLY SHI-"
KFC China's ad is somehow even funnier than OFC existing
Disney is evil af but, you get paid if you are the first to report one of those bootlegs
Paramount is also evil too due to the company suing over SpongeBob related stuff.
@@denny11506 idk bro that can be debated
Wish they'd paid me for a huge list of Elsagate video URLs I mailed them back in the day.
@@LikaLaruku not the first one, and only counts once per channel owner, if you report a channel that's owned by someone who owns other 5 channels it counts as 1
This is something I don't think other companies would do.
New favorite channel, love the diverse, informative, funny and insane (both wild insane, but also heartwarming insane) content! You rock, thanks for the entertainment :)
6 million dollars is ridiculous, did the owner of the Rusty Crab even make that much money off of it? I think Paramount should've just bought it from her and expanded on it instead.
Or, they could have simply asked Paramount for a licensing agreement. Or took the cease and desist, when Paramount sent it to them as an easy out. They didn't do either of that, so I don't see where this is Paramount's fault. Paramount had no other choice but to sue them and the damages are normally calculated using the estimated value of the IP that was infringed upon.
I can't edit my previous comment, so here is another one: I am pretty sure the owners didn't lose much from this and Paramount is never going to get much of the money they are owed. The restaurant was owned by Pixi Universal, LLC, a limited liability company. That was also the company Paramount sued. With an LLC the owners are only liable with the money they invested in said company, not with their private funds. And with the LLC probably not even owning the building the restaurant was in I doubt there were many funds Paramount could seize.
Bro she was stealing I'm sure she has way more then 6mill
5:00 WTF, how is that justified? The two logos aren't similar at all and I don't know how they ever won that lawsuit. Concepts aren't copyrightable. Shame on you for defending the clear abuse of IP to bully a competitor.
Despite my dislike of watching many kids shows, my kinderkids from my intern class were abashed to find out I'd never seen Bluey and so I spent an afternoon watching the little dogs with them lol
It's crazy to me that more clean gas stations don't open up. That's all we want. A clean pooper, maybe some decent food goods and a safe feeling environment. If I could afford it, I would do the same.
It's a bloody gas station. I go there to pump gas. If I want to go shopping, I go to the supermarket. If I want food I go to a restaurant.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodoshould be no reason why you can't do both. Like a phone case, I want it to hold my phone AND my cards. Yknow. Just gotta have it all in one place
@@ShortSpark756 No. If I want to buy gas, I want to be in and out of there in no time and don't want to wait for someone to pay for their week's shopping.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodoWho in the flying fuck actually pays for gas with cash these days? O_o If all you need is gas, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO INSIDE DUMBASS! 🤦😑
I remember many years ago seeing a product called Microshaft Windblows. It was a CD-Rom in a box that looked a lot like Windows 95.
That was a spoof
That was a joke parody program making fun of Microsoft.
There is a small Polish grocery store in my town called Lasuch that uses a Smurf with a surfboard as their mascot. You can even see the Smurf if you look up screenshots of the shop. They have gotten away with it for 4-5 years so far. There is also a window cleanining service that uses Gaston Lagaffe (a French comic book character) as their mascot, though i don't know how long they have been around for. I see their work truck pretty regularly though.
6:00 FYI
The mexican bootleg buckees is playing with the name of a popular mexican singer known as "el bucky"
This singer is known for his trademark mullet hairstyle.
So theyre ripping off :
1) buckees
2)el bucky
3) dale from disney's chip &dale
Stuff like this is why i love mexican culture.
Also, there a popular meme called
"imagine being born in switzerland and missing out on stuff like this"
Where people use that caption to showcase random weird mexican stuff just like this.
Seeing a Buc ees bootleg is something I never thought I'd witness in my whole life.
There's a wallpaper version of the Michaelsoft Binbows sign. Once, i spent all my time in a Best Buy changing the walpapers of their Windows machines to it. Funny stuff.
im surprised that 'The Copycats' episode from TAWOG didnt make the list, considering it was kinda big...
for the few that don't know: some animators in China wanted to advertise some product via a cartoon, but they copied TAWOG characters to do so (tweaked obv, but kept the same premise)... CN caught wind of it & iirc put out a C&D, but China didnt follow through... So TAWOG took it in their own hands & released a few episodes specifically targeting them, basically saying "oh you like to copy? copy this then bitch" (TAWOG made an episode referencing the TSM, self explanatory)
i have no fuckin clue what happened to those animators now
It seems like they’re already animating on Balala the fairies now.
I get that TAWOG is The Amazing World of Gumball and CN is Cartoon Network, but what's TSM?
Caught my wife watching bluey while our baby played with his toys uninterested in the TV 😅
my niece loves bluey, ate broccoli cuz of bluey and was bluey for halloween therefore I fuck with bluey. no bluey disrespect will ever be tolerated
lol I’m 24 with no kids and I watch it 😂
@@cybertalkwithdevin I was not hating
@@Zero-Subs I know I was adding on to the bluey is cool discourse lol
19:37 Oof. Yeah, VIACOM gives nightmares to Disney or Nintendo in terms of copyright infringement.
There's nothing worse than imitation Krab
Quite a surimi experience
Underrated comment.
28:00 If this music sounds familiar, that’s because it’s from Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006).
I can listen to or watch Wavy or M Critikal tell stories anytime. Two of the best as far as I'm concerned.
I think this deserves a part 2 I wanna hear more bootleg stories
Me too!
I think it's hilarious when parents complain on social media about how people can turn kid shows into twisted nightmares. It really drives home that 1) parents aren't smart enough to discern or research that any kid show that pops up on a random RUclips channel isn't the real thing, 2) they act like they haven't been on internet long enough to realize that the internet is still the wild west, or 3) they truly don't want to spend time with their own kids
Hell yeah! "Buk-ii's Super Mercado" made my day 😂
*Until I saw the revamped "Mini Super Buk-ii's" - NOW my day is complete ❤
21:14 the reason why Paramount doesn't want to open a Real Life Krusty Krab is bc Steven Hillenburg didn't want to bc it would ruin the magic of spongebob and the Krabby Patty especially if the food comes out not being so good. But yet again Paramount might actually do it since they already stomped on his Legacy.
14:12 The Killers 💀 I still prefer the version of the band that wrote Mr. Brightside
32:19 As a Bluey fan myself, I thought you’re talking about the more recent Bluey clone “Chip Chilla” which appeared last month.
That show is terrible!
Bad parenting bc they let their kid just go anywhere
Let’s break our kids’ toys to show them that leaving those toys lying everywhere is a bad idea! Also, kids can learn about dinosaurs from that creepy old neighbor, he’s probably a paleontologist.
15:48 the kfc logo looks like he has a big ass head & a little stick figure body.
@5:52, a mullet? I see a new law suit from Disney on the horizon. Its clearly Dale from Chip 'n' Dale, with a black nose.
In "Born a Crime" by Trevor Noah, he mentions a fad of naming kids "Hitler" in Johannesburg back in the 80's, 90's, amongst those who knew nothing about the dictator aside from him being a "strong, powerful leader." One time he was doing a dance performance and his classmate Hitler started busting it out on the dance floor, and the crowd chanted "go Hitler! Go Hitler!" At the dance, which took place at a Jewish school. Trevor said he learned some lessons that day.
I’m surprised that “The Autobots” creators didn’t get lawsuits from the creators of the transformers franchise since “autobots” also refers to characters like bumblebee and optimus prime.
5:25 No fucking similarity! If be pissed if I was the Choke Canyon owner.
5:26 GUMMYGOO
wavy, you bring me laughter even after a rough breakup, thanks my friend