The Illegal Bootlegs That Broke The Internet

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The Rusty Krab wasn't overpriced, it was "lore accurate"

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

"It was using Hitler to further its chicken selling goals" Right there is a sentence I didn't expect to hear tonight.

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😂

Bucees suing that gator BBQ place is like if the apple sued the pineapple.

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.

11:39 The cut from Obama KFC to Hitler KFC might be the funniest editing I've ever seen

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'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.

The alligator logo one is awful😂 How did they even think it was copying them. They're not even looking in the same direction

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.

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 💀

Bootlegs are such an interesting topic to me in the marketing world, seeing how they're such massive middle fingers towards copyright laws.

The Rusty Krab was too on the nose to be parody. Damned shame because it was pretty clearly a labor of love.

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.

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.

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.

Disney takes the whole "rules for thee but not for me" to a whole new level.

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