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I've never heard of GYWO before. Now I looked into it. Some good stuff.
I've never heard of GYWO before. Now I looked into it. Some good stuff.
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Shark biters.
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maybe he's secretly jealous that his cartoon isn't a short on Adult Swim.....?
ugh, this is like the new Basking Robbins commercial where the little clay characters are doing a \"peanut butter jelly\" like dance and song, very annoying to see corporations take something that was popular because it was fun and cheesy and try to commercialize it.
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@jscott73: That commercial has actually had an opposite effect on me than the ad agency probably desired. Before I ever saw that horrible commercial, I had a neutral/borderline-positive opinion of Baskin-Robbins. Now I absolutely refuse to spend my money there, because that ad annoys me so much. Even if it sticks in my head (like every good ad ditty should), it's just going to remind me of how much I hate that ad.
@joshua70448: agreed, I told my wife the exact same thing the first time I saw the ad, we only go there occasionally to begin with but with two small kids we probably go more then others, now we will go elsewhere.
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@YOXIM: That's so rude. How about, instead of being sassy, you go and help Anathema punch that commercial? Seriously, be a freind. ;)
@futuresuperbowlMVPJayCutler: i have the exact same desire, perhaps we should organize a giant internets face punch for that commercial...it is much deserved and would help us all feel a little bit better about ourselves
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Jamba Juice employees are paid that much?
Sign my ass up!
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Thank you for this.
The shitheads who work in Silicon Valley routinely party up here on the weekends, generously throw blow around and then steal ideas from anyone/everyone they party with. Sometimes it's so blatant I'm surprised they have the cojones to show their faces again.
And if someone actually approaches with a licensing deal (and it does happen sometimes) put on your parka coz it's free snow cones in Hell.
Happy Monday,
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Wow, that comic made me want to stay the hell away from Jamba Juice.
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It really pisses me off when corporations steal ideas/materials from artists, or even sample their music.
@Skankingmike: @Skankingmike: @Saboth:
Guys. It's public domain. Anyone can use it. And that they added word bubbles (as GYWO creator notes, with humor) is not exactly an impossible leap even without having seen GYWO.
WHY would a yuppie juice company want to bite the style of a really profanity-ridden Web comic? C'mon now.
\"The clip art is public domain, of course, anyone can do anything with it … but check out the word balloons! JAMBA JUICE TOTALLY BIT MY GYWO WORD BALLOON STYLE! Rounded-edge text box with single line pointing to mouth? I developed that in 2001 using Quark XPress 4!!\"
So... the author is complaining that someone used clip art and rounded circles to create a comic? Am I missing something? That style doesn't sound terribly original to start with...
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@Skankingmike: You can't copyright sarcasm, no matter how signature it is.
About all he can do is, well, organize a Day of Prayer that Jamba will see the light and realize what they've done is legally defensible but morally questionable.
@jscott73: Even worse is that they tried to ripoff a similar chain by the name of \"Baskin Robbins\"
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Anyone else irritated that the comic image can't be enlarged so that it can be read?
Auuugh
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Dear every company and advertising agency ever,
Please be original. Ripped-off ads rarely make me laugh. Most of the time it makes me become even more sick of you.
By the way, has anyone actually seen an ad like this... that worked?
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While the ad's clearly a ripoff of GYWO, any outrage I might feel on Rees' behalf is mitigated by the fact that the \"add your own dialogue to clip art\" schtick was already venerable alt-weekly/'zine/blog fodder by the time Rees got to it. In a way, I kinda feel worse for the poor anonymous schmuck who originally drew the clip art -- who, I assume, hasn't seen a dime from GYWO -- than for Rees himself.
yeah. I already liked GYWO but he doesn't really have a case, it's public domain buddy. If he wanted nobody else to be able to use his characters then he should have CREATED HIS OWN CHARACTERS.
What's amusing is that this posting is generating all sorts of anti-corporate outrage here and elsewhere in the blogosphere, when in fact if you read the original post (which, I realize, few people do) it's pretty much all tongue-in-cheek.
But hey, it's fun to get all worked up and stick it to the Man, dude.
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To quote the eminent scholar Bill Hicks:
\"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing.\"
[note: It's much better in context and I don't know how this site will handle such a high concentration of blistering 'f*ck']
Have no idea why anyone'd pay $5 for 500-calorie liquid packed with 100 grams of sugar.
You eat your fruit whole like a man, not sip through a straw like a sissy piece of fruit.
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if not for their new slogan, \"Our New Plagiarizing Technique Is Unstoppable\".
love, love, LOVE mnftiu.
I love all the flip-flopping on intellectual property.
When you do something it's fine, but when a company does something, ZOMG SOMEBODY SUE THEM!!!!
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un-funny comic gets made into an equally lame advertisment.
nothing to see here.
This is not a question about the ownership of the clip art, it is an issue of brand identity -- Jamba Juice is mimicking David Rees' comic strips in an attempt to associate itself with Mr. Rees' reputation. His charity work (particularly with the issue of unexploded landmines in Afghanistan) probably carries just enough weight with consumers that Jamba Juice feels they can attract in order to make this sleazy and disingenuous ploy on their part seem worthwhile to them.
It seems appropriate for Mr. Rees to point out in public, as vocally as he can, that he does not endorse and is not affiliated with Jamba Juice.
Hi Everyone,The clip art images in question were created by Tom Tierney and are in the public domain. Rees, Jamba and countless other folks have used them throughout the years. I think Rees is upset over the ads which involve the two main characters of his gywo comic, the same two cubicle drones appear in some of the jamba marketing --- the ad campaign also uses other Tierney images which do not appear in Rees's work. When Rees started writing about it on his blog he was upset that Jamba supposedly used comic bubbles that he claims to have invented, soon afterward he mentioned he was afraid people would think that he created the comics for Jamba and would be considered a sell-out. Instead of contacting jamba corporate to let them know that the ad agency they hired might have blundered and that he was upset, he chose to get people riled up and angry; over the last few days i have read some really hateful things directed at Jamba...outrage, they are vile bastards, despicable was the headline of one blog which covered the issue, corporate thieves, scumbags etc... I don't think he ever took this thing that seriously, he was having too much fun with his nationwide boycott and national day of prayer to save jambas' souls...and getting way too much attention --- interviews, blog coverage, mentions of support from celebrities figures etc. He encouraged all the knee-jerk reactions and characterizations. verdict: david rees ego fail
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\"four guys who work at an ad agency but are secretly lobsters\"
CRAB PEOPLE! :o
@Sonicslasher: Walk like crab! Talk like people!