Imagine the balls it takes to take user-created forum names and register them as trademarks.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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Imagine the balls
Small, arrogant pig's balls
AM I THE ASSHOLE?
Yes.
Did Spez trademark "im just a little shit pig" too?
Explain Like I'm Steve "Jailbait" Huffman
Damn... Reddit is even shittier than I thought.
- RPAN (actual subreddit name is R/PAN but they messed up the word mark for the registration I think.)
They didn't mess up, it was called RPAN from the start. And that's something Reddit launched, so it makes sense they'd trademark it.
If you needed any further proof that stock prices are mostly bullshit, check out the graph for RDDT.
It's interesting and depressing to me that reddit as a corporate entity is the antithesis of what 90% of active redditors would claim themselves to be. Yet they stay there and participate anyway.
Kind of a metaphor for modern politics if you think about it. Not until people are getting drafted to fight for oil or fresh water will younger people give a shit and change a thing. "My vote doesn't matter." Vs. every single conservative person in their country showing up to vote as if their ill-gotten gains depend on it.
I think they’d have a hard time defending some but not all of those. I’m sure many of the Redditors heavily involved in those subs, including the mods, have no idea, though!
I remember when r/natureisfuckinglit was created, it's relatively new sub, there was a cool photo on r/earthporn, some dude commented "nature is fucking lit", someone else commented there should be a sub for this and the next person created the sub
Time to switch to Explain Me Like I'm Six then
One more reason I'm done with Reddit.
....Isn't.... "Explain Like I'm Five" an Office reference first?
None of these would stand up to scrutiny in court.
This.
You can try to trademark a lot of things, doesn't mean it will hold, especially if there have been prior uses (which there have been for just about all of them)
U.S. court system: "Providing a trademark for these would be an instance of gross negligence and general abuse of copyright law to provide a corporation with no genuine claim to these references carte blanche use and legal guarantee of sole ownership of them. So we're going to do that because we're functionally an engine of capital and not actually a mechanism of justice."