Thank You For Your Feedback - Don't Say Velcro

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  • Опубликовано: 20 янв 2025

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  • @kevinmcmurray1551
    @kevinmcmurray1551 6 лет назад +429

    From a lawyer with a sense of humor to other lawyers who apparently have a great sense of humor, I LOVED your videos. Having tried many, many times to train on this same issue, I believe you struck the perfect balance between serious education and fun learning. My hat's off to you all. Who cares what all the humorless people of the world say. They obviously are in need of some love. :)

    • @Rattiar
      @Rattiar 6 лет назад +12

      ^^ What she said. Fellow IP attorney, and yeah - exactly that. :) Thanks for your wonderful sense of humor on a serious issue.

    • @Nemesis302
      @Nemesis302 5 лет назад +5

      Still gonna call it velcro. And as a Texan, all sodas are cokes.

    • @Twisted_Code
      @Twisted_Code 5 лет назад +7

      @@partlyawesome I mean, from a legal perspective, it kind of is. The core question is "How do you avoid a brand becoming part of the vernacular for generic/knockoff products". Trademark law only covers so much, and you can't just censor free speech... yet, at least, and shouldn't.

    • @phillyflipper542
      @phillyflipper542 5 лет назад

      @@Rattiar AND... you wonder why you are hated....

    • @mygaffer
      @mygaffer 4 года назад +1

      It's funny but 90% of people you'll meet on the street just think velcro is a generic term for that type of fastener.

  • @jordanranson6960
    @jordanranson6960 4 года назад +64

    I honestly didn’t even know velcro was a brand or company before someone linked this. Never even HEARD the term "hook and loop" used before this either.

  • @sleepypp101
    @sleepypp101 6 лет назад +170

    we watched the first video in my Trademark Law class and I still think about it regularly. brilliant guys, just brilliant.

    • @beojack4592
      @beojack4592 5 лет назад +8

      Watched it in property. Ya its making the rounds in the law schools.

    • @boom-sh2un
      @boom-sh2un 4 года назад +2

      Better than the Copyright School video.

  • @methods20
    @methods20 6 лет назад +69

    So who would of thought a company famous for their hook & loop system would be so dope. Hats off to Velcro.

  • @DavidSRose
    @DavidSRose 4 года назад +57

    I think these two videos are among the funniest I have ever seen. Props to the entire creative team, and the corporate team with the guts and sense of humor to do this!

  • @agatto71
    @agatto71 6 лет назад +339

    You should go on tour with the attorneys from Jell-O and Kleenex.

    • @director.johnsnape
      @director.johnsnape 6 лет назад +36

      And bring a Xerox of their order, and Aspirin for those listening to this singing...

    • @theguytobeat
      @theguytobeat 6 лет назад +25

      It's too late to save aspirin.

    • @TeslaHaxz
      @TeslaHaxz 6 лет назад +16

      I think it's too late for the bandaid guys, though

    • @johnobrien2055
      @johnobrien2055 5 лет назад +6

      Check out band-aid's ads they always refer to it as band-aid brand for a reason.

    • @Catcrumbs
      @Catcrumbs 5 лет назад +1

      Nintendo should be their special guest.

  • @diannikastarr8826
    @diannikastarr8826 Год назад +17

    Just wanna say these videos did make an impact on our family at least. We use the generic name for things more often, or clarify that we do mean the brand in question when using a brand name. and when we catch each other using a name brand when we do not mean the brand, one of us usually says "this is fucking hook and loop".

    • @georgewl
      @georgewl 3 месяца назад +2

      This video really made an impact on my family, we make sure to use brand names as if they're the generic name all the time.
      Because the faster it happens, the cheaper those products get, by removing the monopoly a brand has on an idea.

    • @mitchib1440
      @mitchib1440 24 дня назад +1

      @@georgewl Calling Samsung support be like
      Samsung: "Hi, this is Samsung customer care, how can I help you today?"
      You: "Yeah I need help with my iPhone"
      Have fun with that one george. Doesn't quite work as well as it does in your head, does it? XD

  • @carolynndevine864
    @carolynndevine864 6 лет назад +172

    Loved the first video, but love this one even more. There's nothing better than being able to respond to bullshit, with a sense of humor. We need more of that in this world!!

  • @ericmarshall2991
    @ericmarshall2991 4 года назад +26

    These two are such amazing singers. Your talent has convinced me to call it hook and loop.

  • @jrhoadley
    @jrhoadley 6 лет назад +27

    This is going to get me through a lot of dark days. After I stop laughing... Cannot find adequate words to explain how much I love this. You are the hook and loop on my sanity.

    • @d3335
      @d3335 5 лет назад +1

      Damn :P

    • @ajleclerc
      @ajleclerc 3 года назад +1

      Dude, get brand name Velcro®️ for the breakdown. You deserve to have a little bit of a splurge, even when you're feeling at your lowest. Come over and we'll have a couple drinks on the linoleum
      PS. Please bring kleenex 😉

  • @dbacom
    @dbacom 4 года назад +9

    I'm a writer and wondered if I should use the word Velcro. Stumbling across this video made my day...my week...possibly my life.

    • @mrahzzz
      @mrahzzz 2 года назад +1

      That's so amazing. You had the perfect video to answer your question! These videos were _made_ for you!

  • @serpantking22
    @serpantking22 5 лет назад +15

    WHY ARE THERE NOT MORE OF THESE!!! I LOVE THESE VIDEEOS!!! And I heard you guys tried for a Super Bowl commercial!! Please oh please get one this year, the past few years they were terrible. I swear if you make more videos and get a super bowl ad not only will I always refer to it as hook and loop, I will begin correcting other people and showing them your videos. This is the deal I propose

  • @arlenka1176
    @arlenka1176 4 года назад +7

    very pleased to see fellow lawyers having a great sense of humour, heaps of creativity and singing skills. whatever you were trying to achieve with this, well done, I love it.

  • @jonathangutoff3948
    @jonathangutoff3948 Год назад +3

    Obviously, I'm very late to this, but I'd like to add that like the first one, it is fantastic. The singers are great, and the casting and costume people did a great job getting that lawyer look down pat -- as a long-time lawyer and law professor (not IP law) I know it well.
    Also, I know some German, but wasn't familiar with "Klettverschluss." I looked it up on Google Translate and sadly, but predictably, it gives "velcro fastener," as the English translation. Perhaps Google needs to hear from lawyers of the letter-writing rather than the singing variety.

  • @OldLlamaCheese
    @OldLlamaCheese 4 года назад +16

    So when are you releasing the full musical on Broadway?

  • @huyueqi
    @huyueqi 6 лет назад +12

    I will use wool and claw from now on.

  • @ebgbjo2025
    @ebgbjo2025 5 лет назад +1

    I am over 2 yrs behind but loved both of these videos so much. These two have amazing voices.

  • @alexia3552
    @alexia3552 4 года назад +4

    Making hate comments into poetic lyrics is just :chef's kiss:

  • @Chocoalatv
    @Chocoalatv 2 года назад +1

    We call it “magic tape” in Japan and I learned to say “Velcro” only after I learned that word in the States😮

  • @mrahzzz
    @mrahzzz 2 года назад +2

    10/10 to the creative team in charge of these ads. You guys nailed it (before it was popular for companies to meme? Maybe right around the same time). This is just funny content whether or not it's an ad. :)

  • @tya04
    @tya04 6 лет назад +37

    I wonder, was "Hook&Loop" always the generic name for Velcro from day one, or did the lawyers and marketers suddenly realize that they've been digging themselves into a hole by labeling their items as Velcro instead of Hook&Loop on all the packaging?

    • @joshluther3056
      @joshluther3056 5 лет назад +21

      It was originally Hook and Loop Fastener on the patent patents.google.com/patent/US3417440 (might not be the original but it's old) The velcro problem isn't the same as Clorox, Kleenex, or Band-Aid. Looking at the packaging for Band-aids they are marketed as band-aid adhesive bandages. adhesive bandages are not marketed as band-aids. Velcro has gained recognition from competitors and doesn't market their product as a hook and loop fastener (doesn't appear on much of their packaging at all) which makes their mark arguably invalid.

  • @CaioOleskovicz
    @CaioOleskovicz 6 лет назад +2

    This is INCREDIBLE! Glad I found it on RUclips!

  • @zachf5604
    @zachf5604 4 года назад +1

    It’s an odd thing for a company to do but it makes sense, gotta love the enthusiasm at the end of the day.

  • @lynnbehnke6910
    @lynnbehnke6910 4 года назад +4

    This was great! Please make more!

  • @osmium6832
    @osmium6832 6 лет назад +87

    This is strange that this just happened to have been made so recently. I was Wikipedia surfing and one of the footnotes led me to the original Don't Say Velcro video and I expected it to be some terrible rap from the 80's. The original was alright, but I found this followup video particularly funny. I couldn't help but laugh at the "Whereas in America they asked us to politely please die of genocide." Yeah, that sounds like your average RUclips comment to me. Perhaps a bit mild by some channels' standards.

    • @NxJNightHawk
      @NxJNightHawk 6 лет назад +5

      Same. My browsing went like this:
      ● Star Trek Voyager's "The Omega Directive" episode
      ● A reddit comment on omega
      ● A Star Trek page about the Vulcans inventing velcro
      ● The wikipedia article on velcro
      ● The original "don't say velcro" video
      ● and then youtube recommended me this
      How else did everyone find this video?

    • @minecraftchest1
      @minecraftchest1 3 года назад +1

      I found the video because I was watching videos by one of the founders of the Production company that created the video. I saw the behind the scenes video which linked to the original which took me to this one.

    • @Nist349
      @Nist349 5 месяцев назад

      I found the original through a Reddit comment on a post about koolaid, then found this one because RUclips recommended it to me

  • @DANCEVIC90
    @DANCEVIC90 2 года назад

    I'm dying from both videos, both are hilarious and explained very well a real brand issue.

  • @griff7887
    @griff7887 6 лет назад +3

    Recruiters at Velcro going to the turks on commisions from these brilliant videos

  • @NextStop2030
    @NextStop2030 6 лет назад +1

    Velcro Strips are great. Love using and selling them.

  • @paulborovay
    @paulborovay 6 лет назад +25

    You are my new favorite company.

  • @kukri1877
    @kukri1877 Год назад +1

    Oh I would love if there was an uncensored version of these two videos. Of the swear words mind you, not the trademarked names. :D

  • @sk8085-b
    @sk8085-b 4 года назад +25

    lmao this is even better than the first one

  • @janetteash8155
    @janetteash8155 2 года назад

    You guys are awesome. Well done !!! I just read a review on dog flying discs made by several dog toy companies and the author of the article referred to ALL of them as "Frisbees". She typed "Frisbee" over a150 times (I lost count) It was so cringe worthy that I had to stop reading the article, I just could not continue reading the word "Frisbee" used to describe everything and anything that was disc shaped. LOL

  • @joshluther3056
    @joshluther3056 5 лет назад +8

    I'm still looking for where it says "Hook and loop" on the box

    • @siccoblue2112
      @siccoblue2112 4 года назад +3

      Betcha it doesn't. Betcha this entire series is nothing but a ploy to keep their trademark in tact
      That being said, they did a great job with it, so good on them I guess. The perfect balance between humor and actually getting their point across, rare to see these days

    • @aname6104
      @aname6104 4 года назад

      Sicco Blue think it’s a joke

  • @nyssfairchild2244
    @nyssfairchild2244 Год назад

    This pair of videos made me realize how little I actually say it since the last time I used that type of fastener on a regular basis, I hadn't learned to tie my shoelaces.

  • @preston4870
    @preston4870 Год назад

    Do another one please. These are great.

  • @tmcowgirl
    @tmcowgirl 7 месяцев назад

    From all of the trademark attys of the world....THANK YOU!!!

  • @kaesitha7006
    @kaesitha7006 Год назад +1

    I'm glad that my crimes in my last life weren't odious enough for me to be reincarnated into an IP lawyer.

  • @seansanders7126
    @seansanders7126 6 лет назад

    This is the most New Hampshire sense of I’ve ever come across! Cheers to you guys from a lawyer and IP nerd!

  • @nickgrand2
    @nickgrand2 3 года назад +6

    Get this on Spotify, please!

  • @TheGirlInBlackBoots
    @TheGirlInBlackBoots 5 лет назад

    These are the best videos I have ever seen. Now my cellphone ringtone. Please make more. Hook and Loop FTW

  • @HisDisciple14
    @HisDisciple14 6 лет назад +2

    I loved your first video, and I love this one too! You should do a video of all the good comments! (FYI I make sure to buy the velcro brand of hook and loop now :))

  • @xHideousFoxx
    @xHideousFoxx Год назад

    5 years late to these videos but O MAN did they make my day!
    still calling it velcro though. ; )

  • @wizard1701a
    @wizard1701a 4 года назад

    Klettverschluss is totally easy to say ;)
    Thank you for your great videos... and this wonderfull hook and loop product.

  • @StevenMTilleyBRLA
    @StevenMTilleyBRLA 3 года назад

    I remember when my last pair of " hook & loop fasteners" shoes fell off my feet in a lake in the 1980s, Today I use shoestrings. Your trademark is a made-up word so I can get by without the word. However, thank you for giving me ideas on how to take back real word from trademark.

  • @MrMrgr33ns
    @MrMrgr33ns 5 лет назад +1

    Please make more. These videos are the best thing to happen since sliced bread😂

    • @_KrakenDev
      @_KrakenDev 2 года назад

      The two originals are enough 😌

  • @kathrynforest4368
    @kathrynforest4368 4 года назад +4

    did you get your going rate or union wages

  • @marcinkuszynski3514
    @marcinkuszynski3514 6 лет назад +9

    I love using velcro to keep all my cables neatly organized. I will need to get on Bing and google this hoop and look invetion you are talking about sounds promising replacement for velcro

  • @quelin1
    @quelin1 6 лет назад +4

    Yours is the only hook and loop for me

  • @sbosonicx
    @sbosonicx 4 года назад +2

    This is so funny and adorable!

  • @mitchib1440
    @mitchib1440 Год назад

    I loved it. I loved the first one and I loved the second one. People love to hate on everything. VELCRO(R) Brand, you got a wicked sense of humour!

  • @victoriasutton529
    @victoriasutton529 2 месяца назад

    Very funny - very entertaining. Well done!

  • @smoovlatino
    @smoovlatino 2 года назад

    This is pure gold!

  • @JinxedJoker
    @JinxedJoker 4 года назад +3

    Nah, it's friction fuzz now. It's that or Velcro; take the win.

  • @sireuchre
    @sireuchre 4 года назад +14

    I don't care what you say, I'm going to keep calling it astronaut nose scratcher mechanical friction moderator.

  • @francisrodriguez2369
    @francisrodriguez2369 3 года назад

    well done, Velcro marketing team. well done.

  • @Trickster310YT
    @Trickster310YT Год назад

    Thank you Velcro for giving us Velcro

  • @d3335
    @d3335 5 лет назад +2

    This lady has the best facial expressions :P

  • @GaiasDotter
    @GaiasDotter 3 года назад +1

    I loved this! Just found the first video and the follow up and I’m in love!
    In Sweden we call them “kardborreband” literally translates to burdock-string/tape

    • @MedK001
      @MedK001 Год назад

      I thought you were gonna say it literally translated to "cardboard band" lmao

  • @pentonhusqvarna
    @pentonhusqvarna 6 лет назад

    This is clever genius unleashed. Book marked these videos and continue to watch when I need a good laugh. I think it’s an example of one of the most creative methods of brand reinforcement and an example you can reach more people through comedy than by almost any other means, excluding the thought-provoking Budweiser Twin Towers spot and other similar examples. Very nice!

  • @ICannotBelieveIAmHere
    @ICannotBelieveIAmHere 3 года назад +4

    Those guys at Velcro really know how to hold it all together.

  • @Marco_Leporatti
    @Marco_Leporatti 6 лет назад +1

    Fantastic.. I love Velcro®

  • @ronpage1466
    @ronpage1466 6 лет назад +1

    The video is awesome! Definitely outside the box! love it.

  • @Twisted_Code
    @Twisted_Code 5 лет назад +2

    I I love that they called out some of the jackasses from the previous video, and made it rhyme.

  • @jbelian
    @jbelian 6 лет назад +6

    I am in love with your videos. My Property Law students like them, too (but I'm the one who just keep singing those choruses ... really great hooks you've got looped in there!!)

  • @MyBloodSingsForYou
    @MyBloodSingsForYou 4 года назад +1

    I didn't know anything about this until last year when they sent me a cease and desist notice because I used Velcro incorrectly in a shop listing. I laughed my ass of and learned something at the same time.
    🤣 🤣 🤣

  • @yuka3386
    @yuka3386 2 года назад

    So, how are the things now? Did the songs help to tackle the generic use?

  • @annabrannan1623
    @annabrannan1623 6 лет назад +5

    Creative and fun! Please tell me that you debuted it at the INTA Annual Meeting.

  • @sleepy_jean
    @sleepy_jean Год назад

    I have never heard it referred to as, "hook and loop" but in the navy I heard it called "hook and pile" a lot.

  • @TestECull
    @TestECull 3 года назад +2

    Just for this I'm gonna keep calling it velcro. Out of spite.

  • @sterlingfire4357
    @sterlingfire4357 5 лет назад +3

    Funny video, but I'm definitely saying Velcro forever.

  • @fb1179
    @fb1179 4 года назад +8

    Lawyers are musicians who gave up confirmed lol. P.S. Great job

  • @diazbruno11
    @diazbruno11 6 лет назад +12

    Hello from Portugal! I got you're message! I had a subject about marketing and I totally support you're cause. For me it's a brilliant marketing idea. Unfortunately in the internet it's easier to give bad comments instead of (at least) trying to get the message. For now on I will say #hookandloopforever even when I'm talking in portuguese! Congrats for the way that you respond to that kind of comment.

  • @dansv1
    @dansv1 10 месяцев назад

    Wool and claw is pretty good.

  • @pgarutti
    @pgarutti 6 лет назад +17

    Love it... it got rid of "politically correct", and passed the message across. Including the bitter comments. Never though I would appreciate a video with singing lawyers, lol... Congratulations to the producers!

  • @donaldoconner
    @donaldoconner 4 года назад +1

    Post the uncensored versions

  • @grimreaper0
    @grimreaper0 3 года назад +1

    Love the original, love the follow up. Can't wait for part 3.
    Still gonna call it Velcro though.

  • @Holtermarvin
    @Holtermarvin 6 лет назад +5

    Really like your videos but I would love to hear an „unbleep‘d“ version of it because I‘m not american and can handle swear words very well. Thank you

    • @d3335
      @d3335 5 лет назад

      This is sooo relatable XD

  • @slendermonkey7
    @slendermonkey7 Год назад

    You guys need to make a velcro musical

  • @abbytonyardor3701
    @abbytonyardor3701 2 года назад

    Phucking Awesome VELCRO!!!

  • @beaubaez3
    @beaubaez3 2 года назад +1

    After watching this I need an aspirin :)

  • @richie5935
    @richie5935 4 года назад +1

    I'm a big fan of Grippy Grass

  • @llegorburu
    @llegorburu 4 года назад +4

    Nice video, good marketing strategy to a problem, but it's wiser to ask people to put the R when is really your product and let the world use the word why fight it? is commonly used by now

  • @theshimadas618
    @theshimadas618 2 года назад

    I love this channel

  • @almostanengineer
    @almostanengineer 3 года назад

    These are Amazing, I now wanna go out and buy some Velcro, and none of that cheap Hook and Loop stuff.

  • @smaloy7801
    @smaloy7801 4 года назад

    Brilliant!

  • @General_Ito
    @General_Ito 6 лет назад +2

    +1 to Fur tape!

  • @obduliatamaralgines1371
    @obduliatamaralgines1371 5 лет назад

    y que paso con el hook y el loop que tanto nos costo aprender cuando siempre decíamos astracán y velcro

  • @galih_s_panggayuhan_79
    @galih_s_panggayuhan_79 3 года назад

    I just got this second video after watching the first one...
    Quite a creative effort...
    Check this out...
    Here in Indonesia, we rarely say V*****. Most of us don't event know it...
    We called it 'kretekan' or other names perhaps...
    Kretekan name came from the sound it makes when you remove it... The cracking sound by the local tongue...
    Cmiiw...
    However, sometimes reverse psychology had it use...
    When you forbid things people just keep doing it, meanwhile if you encourage things people hesitate...
    Good job, good luck...

  • @jacquegardner6281
    @jacquegardner6281 6 лет назад +9

    Do you mention that Velcro lies about it's product. A package that says it has 24 inches really only has 12 inches of product, 12 inches of the hook and 12 inches of the loop . 6ft. of tape is really only 3 ft. coverage. No truth in your labeling.

  • @NateofDrake
    @NateofDrake 4 года назад +1

    I love this.

  • @tianc.1055
    @tianc.1055 3 года назад +1

    Lets try ‘magic tape’ (translated from Cantonese)

  • @TwoMinuteAusten
    @TwoMinuteAusten 6 лет назад

    This is better than the first one.

  • @joekeith2819
    @joekeith2819 4 года назад +2

    I'm gonna keep saying velcro. If you all lose your trademark because I said "velcro" in conversation, we probably needed to reset the entire world to a simpler time anyway, more rules than it's worth man.

  • @juliethecyborg
    @juliethecyborg Месяц назад

    I always call it "Velcro", but only because we only use Velcro®-brand hook-and-loop fasteners in my household because they're the good stuff! 😂

  • @MacyIsInThisKitchen
    @MacyIsInThisKitchen 4 года назад +6

    Silence, brand

  • @SockyNoob
    @SockyNoob Год назад

    This is amazing

  • @QuiteDan
    @QuiteDan 3 года назад +1

    I'm starting to think these people aren't really singing, dancing lawyers.

  • @kaksspl
    @kaksspl 3 года назад

    In Poland we call them rzepy (burs) after those dry fruits with hooks. But in English? Even Google translates it to Velcro. And here's why. Hooks and loops is just so long and annoying to say. It doesn't roll of the tongue nearly as easily. And it's not like you can have only hooks or only loops so you're making one word out of three. Suggest a single, simple word that implies both parts instead crying that a single simple word is bad and everyone has to use long and annoying phrase. I suggest burs because it already works in my language. Once you see the fruit, the similarity is obvious and it works as well as Velcro in speech, maybe even better.
    Velcro shoes, bur shoes, hook and loop shoes. Just say it out loud a dozen times as fast as you can and see which one rolls of the tongue best.

  • @rickbeck5437
    @rickbeck5437 5 лет назад

    VERY GOOD ‼️

  • @peka2478
    @peka2478 9 месяцев назад

    How, in the name of God, can this have more dislikes than likes???