Yeah, I just Googled news for "Fine Bros" and there's now a BBC article!
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35459805
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Somebody call VH1: "The Fine Bros" are trying to trademark "reaction videos"
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Yeah, I just Googled news for "Fine Bros" and there's now a BBC article!
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35459805
Any time you start a conversation with "Sorry you don't understand", your head is so far up your ass. Perception is everything in their industry, they should know better.
I love how every article on this subject has a screencap of them from their update video :lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0qahqv5YM
In an hour it will transfer to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq8E7CWATlk
Stats and graphs are available at:
https://tfbsubscribers.github.io/
http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/thefinebros/realtime
I'm amazed they haven't made a video saying they see everyone's point, agree they overstepped their bounds and are no longer moving forward with React World.
They need to cut their losses already.
They need to cut their losses already.
I be disappointed if every article from here on out doesn't use it.
Yeah. Obviously I agree with his view, but for all the talk of "reading up" and "understanding" he doesn't understand the distinction between trademark and copyright.
What's bad is that the Fine Bros. don't seem to get that either. They own the brand, which they can rightfully trademark, but they keep bullshitting around arrogantly about their so important format, even though it's so vague and unoriginal in concept and execution that it doesn't really hold up in any sense. Even a "kids reacting to stuff"-concept isn't distinctly theirs, really. What's theirs though, with trademarks, is if someone makes a very similar video using that name or steals their logotypes or whatever. But it's such a shallow basis overall that it's so laughable and a bit disgusting they hold it to such high esteem.
New React video already has 9k dislikes.
EDIT: -160 per minute!!!!
EDIT: -170!!!
Why give them these views?
The flood gates have opened!
A Link to the Past
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Views don't mean anything. A view by someone who watches for three seconds hurts them.
Unfortunately, the views will not stop coming. But we can get their attention by disliking every video they upload in the coming days.
This whole event is really quite something. From the first video, to the various instances showing them to be hypocrites, to their "we're sorry you all aren't smart enough to get what we're doing" update vid that pretty much made things worse to the rapidly declining subscription base and increasing amount of youtubers talking about the Fine Bros business practices...
I honestly think at this point unless they make a another video stating they aren't going through with their "React World" BS and place the blame solely on themselves, their brand is dead. I don't see this as something The Fine Bros can ignore and hope everything dies down, especially if more vids mocking them or detailing past experiences with them keep popping up.
I'm not subscribed to them but I would occasionally watch their react vids and would be entertained enough. After all this though I'm just not comfortable giving my views to them.
I honestly think at this point unless they make a another video stating they aren't going through with their "React World" BS and place the blame solely on themselves, their brand is dead. I don't see this as something The Fine Bros can ignore and hope everything dies down, especially if more vids mocking them or detailing past experiences with them keep popping up.
I'm not subscribed to them but I would occasionally watch their react vids and would be entertained enough. After all this though I'm just not comfortable giving my views to them.
After watching this I feel like they either have some really shitty lawyers or some brilliant lawyers who are just trying to fuck them for a ton of money
The huge dislike bars will also attract casual subscribers to stop and think "WTF? Why does this have so many dislikes?" and hopefully find out what's been going on.
For God's sake...
Yes it is. 96k gone today already. Well on track the 115k from yesterday.
They've already done like 12 episodes of a show called "ReactToThat" that aired on nickelodeon at the end of 2014.
Lately he has been doing these videos quite fast, he should calm down a little, but good video overall.
If they have 30 days before their trademark is solidified why publicize it and give people a chance to fight it?
I'd go dark for 30 days and then come back after the fact 'you guys had 30 days, so sorry, its 100% official in stone now' , don't blow your load with a big advance warning, if you're going to go supervillian go big or go home
I'd go dark for 30 days and then come back after the fact 'you guys had 30 days, so sorry, its 100% official in stone now' , don't blow your load with a big advance warning, if you're going to go supervillian go big or go home
They probably didn't think the public's reaction would be this negative. In their heads, everything was fine.
Their heads were so far up their own asses that they thought people woud be chomping at the bit to become a part of REACT World.
Vampirolol
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The "time capsule" bit doesn't get enough attention, it's pure gold.
They did the classic villain monologue detailing their plan.
I thought this was going to be a GradeAUnderA post, didn't realize there was an actual youtuber called I hate everything.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
this is the really hilarious part. so in their own bubble about what they do and how they do it they must have honestly thought that people would be genuinely excited to become a cog in their machine for maybe a tiny cut of some cash.
Genuinely out of touch, that.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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100 years from now, historians will look back and realize you cannot take the internet for granted, and its not something you can fool. This thread will be a time capsule historians will look at and see how we reacted to their bullshit.
ZackieChan
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Finally got around to watching this. Very good video. He misses on very obvious but important point, though. Licensing a trademark without quality control = "naked licensing" aka a great way to quickly lose your trademark rights. Terrible idea.
Also, he may be going a bit far with the racketeering point, but crim law ain't my thing.
They're very sorry. Sorry they used such big words as "trademark" and "licensing".
Next update will be for using the name Burger King to confuse the peasants.
And that reaction will be distinct from the Fine Bros format.
Racketeering was actually a pretty spot on analogy.
They're basically manipulating things so that other users have to enroll into their services (aka react world network) in order to not face negative consequences by the fine bros for doing things that fine bros considers to be "their format."
Aka, give money to us to "protect" your business, otherwise your business may get taken down (by us).
Let me be frank, if it wasn't for the Ellen picture and testimonies of other youtubers that got their reaction videos taken down by them, I wouldn't care about this.
MisterHero
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There was this girl taking this authoritative stance that Full House should be left in the past. And other kids were saying how people don't like change.New React video already has 9k dislikes.
EDIT: -160 per minute!!!!
EDIT: -170!!!
How about I keep my Fuller House and you keep making entertainment for today's generation, a.k.a. shitty reaction videos. Is that fair?
Agreed. If nothing else I'm hoping we'll stop having people post their lame videos all the time. I always thought they were lazy hacks but I didn't really care past that because I figured they might be decent people. To hear they're a bag of dicks just makes me feel better about thinking the product they make is lazy as fuck lowest common demonominator crap.
Oh man, so many things seem even more absurd now on rewatch. Just before the time capsule thing, one of them talks about how humbling their journey has been.
ultracal31
You don't get to bring friends.
If anything it's what they wanted though, we now have a time capsule of this event and came together as a community.
If anything it's what they wanted though, we now have a time capsule of this event and came together as a community.
Haha, right.
Also, earlier in the thread people were wondering why there isn't any significant defence force for them (there seems to be one every time, no matter how deluded they might be). I think one of the reasons is that nobody identifies themselves with the Fine Bros ©™. People might be fan of the channel or some of the reactors, but those two guys? Nobody knows who they are! We rarely see them and when we first see them this is the impression they give?
Poetic.Injustice
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The drop rate seems to have increased over the past day. Wonder how low it can go.
ZackieChan
Member
I'd have to look a bit closer to see if these actions could rise to the level of satisfying the element of "racketeering activity" under civil RICO laws.
Palabragrís
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VeryGooster
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Fine Bros. pulling the whole "We pay you in EXPOSURE" or whatever with that animator. Fuck that noise.
BreezyLimbo
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IHateEverythings video is great haha.
JonnyDBrit
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Using the FB's own words against them. Its oddly amusing.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I trademarked "Koreans" a couple days ago.
ultracal31
You don't get to bring friends.
Ah good old exposure dollars. Sadly it happens a lot too :/
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