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Fine Bros Drama
« on: February 01, 2016, 09:22:25 pm »
Branching off the discussion in the Funny Pics Thread.

The Fine Bros on YouTube wanted to trademark the "React" video format that they're famous for ("Teens React to Nintendo!", etc). Needless to say, people are pissed.

http://digg.com/2016/fine-bros-react-world-licensing

They're losing loads of subscribers, but given the 14 million they started with (or was it higher?), there hasn't been much of a dent so far. There's some good "react reaction" videos coming out on YouTube now as people rage about it.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRYnOPJiTaA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRYnOPJiTaA</a>
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2016, 11:30:57 pm »
They've actually lost about 2% of their subscribers.
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2016, 02:13:34 am »
I was under the impression that they only wanted to trademark the WORD reaction when used to refer to reaction videos and most of this scandal is an overreaction or misinterpretation.
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2016, 02:24:37 am »
Kinda. You see, trademarks are really broad.
This guy explains it better than I could, and I'm on mobile, so have a link. http://ryanmorrisonlaw.com/attorneys-react-the-fine-bros-react-trademark
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2016, 04:01:13 pm »
I also heard that they targeted Ellen DeGeneres for a segment she did on her show of showing kids an old cellphone and filming their reaction.  I don't know how similar it was to their "format", however.

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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2016, 04:36:08 pm »
She's done these kind of segments for years. It's similar in that kids and an old phone are involved, but DeGeneres is on camera with them, and interacts a lot by messing with their little kid minds. Fine Bros format has the hosts off camera and a lot less interaction with the subjects.

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Re: Fine Bros Drama
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2016, 07:12:49 pm »
But the damage is still done.

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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2016, 05:22:22 pm »
I'm surprised by the attempted sincerity in that statement. Still, plenty of videos and channels were taken down in the process, so GG guys.
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2016, 06:14:24 pm »
I'm surprised by the attempted sincerity in that statement. Still, plenty of videos and channels were taken down in the process, so GG guys.

Is that GG or "GG"?

I'm worried the answer is "Yes".
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2016, 12:05:51 am »
"Good game." I'm not about to bring that crap here.
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2016, 12:14:07 am »
To differenat the two, I declare that "Good Game" should be "gg" and ThingThatIWon'tMention is "GG".

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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2016, 12:23:29 am »
Aye!
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2016, 03:39:49 pm »
I'm just sitting here enjoying the sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
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Re: Fine Bros Drama
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2016, 03:46:34 pm »
To differenat the two, I declare that "Good Game" should be "gg" and ThingThatIWon'tMention is "GG".

Ironbite-all in favor?

Too complicated and it will also cause confusion since this rule would only apply here.
No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were:
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Aww, you guys rock. :)  I feel the love... and the pitchforks and torches.  Tingly!