Flashgitz Appreciation Thread - Two retards animating retards for retards

[ShitLurker]

House of a Thousand Furries​

New Furry Crusades video is out. Still based as ever, Tom and Don send the Black Templars to murder Bluey and her family, who are the idols that the Furry Fandom lusts after.

Here's the media version of the video link above. (Archive)

Hilarious. Also shows how much GW getting litigious about any sort of fanmade content was a bluff that too many were to eager to embrace.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

House of a Thousand Furries​

New Furry Crusades video is out. Still based as ever, Tom and Don send the Black Templars to murder Bluey and her family, who are the idols that the Furry Fandom lusts after.

Here's the media version of the video link above. (Archive)

Thanks for that. Couldn't get the media version to work on my end, for some reason.

 

[JesusChristDenton]

Also shows how much GW getting litigious about any sort of fanmade content was a bluff that too many were to eager to embrace.

To this day I will never forgive Bruva Alfabusa for lying about why he stopped TTS.

 

[Romeo]

Hilarious. Also shows how much GW getting litigious about any sort of fanmade content was a bluff that too many were to eager to embrace.

At this point, I wonder how many IPs Flashgitz will violate in their Furry Crusades, but literally and legally. If GW does decide to take them down, it's canon that furries, Sonic, and Bluey are canon to Warhammer 40k.

To this day I will never forgive Bruva Alfabusa for lying about why he stopped TTS.

Context? I always thought Bruva was scared for a takedown notice from GW and hence why he stopped TTS, but apparently, GW never sent a takedown notice in the first place?

 

[JesusChristDenton]

Context? I always thought Bruva was scared for a takedown notice from GW and hence why he stopped TTS, but apparently, GW never sent a takedown notice in the first place?

IIRC it was mentioned in some kind of podcast by someone close to Bruva (either ThunderPsyker or Karl) that Bruva just didn't feel like continuing TTS and he wanted to use the GW takedown drama as an excuse to stop working on it.

 

[mindlessobserver]

House of a Thousand Furries​

New Furry Crusades video is out. Still based as ever, Tom and Don send the Black Templars to murder Bluey and her family, who are the idols that the Furry Fandom lusts after.

Here's the media version of the video link above. (Archive)

This is the crossover I didn't even know I needed in my life. I watched it three times and laughed every time. For a minute I was worried the Black Templar wouldn't do his duty to the Emperor. I should whip myself for my lack of faith in his Angels.

At least at the end Bluey and her family taught the Battle Brother to not judge a book by its cover. Failing to properly identify your enemies could lead to you being surprised by their abilities and tactics.

 

[Pedophobe]

Good episode, the handled the source material well. The joke at the end was predictable but does actually leave open the possibility of a sequel with a bit of retconning.

Make sure you watch it with subtitles on.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Just noticed the children's drawing of the emper....I mean SPACE KING!!!! On the wall in the background.

This vox recording hits hard brothers. Let us rejoice however in knowing that despite her horrid mutation, the little girl dog thing still held faith in the Master of Mankind, and her soul has been liberated from her twisted flesh and into the fiery embrace of the Emperor.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I liked the Bluey intro gag.

 

[Romeo]

House of a Thousand Furries​

New Furry Crusades video is out. Still based as ever, Tom and Don send the Black Templars to murder Bluey and her family, who are the idols that the Furry Fandom lusts after.

Here's the media version of the video link above. (Archive)

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From Kiwi Farms​	From the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRIA3a4Jc8U​

The Furry Crusades video on Bluey got taken down for copyright. Most likely from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation who broadcasts Bluey or the animators behind Bluey instead of Games Workshop, since the latter hasn't gone after Flashgitz's Furry Crusades series.


Knowing this video will trigger some of the IP owners, I managed to archive the video on GhostArchive before the video got deleted.​

 

[ChampFantana]

I really hope we get more Space King in the future. I don't know if GW has tried to kill it or not though.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

Man, looking at the tweet replies to their announcement it got taken down, there are a lot of asshurt Furries and Bluey fans out there.

 

[Dynamite Bean]

I am by no means a flashgitz fan but the amount of seething over that bluey parody is gold and means he's doing something right
same shit reminds me of bronies and how much malding they did over parodies and animations that kill characters
also really gross to see how many people will simp for corpos abusing copyright when it's someone they don't like

 

[JesusChristDenton]

same shit reminds me of bronies and how much malding they did over parodies and animations that kill characters

Considering how Bluey is MLP:FIM 2.0, this shouldn't come as a surprise.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

IIRC it was mentioned in some kind of podcast by someone close to Bruva (either ThunderPsyker or Karl) that Bruva just didn't feel like continuing TTS and he wanted to use the GW takedown drama as an excuse to stop working on it.

Do you have a sauce on this? As much as I miss TTS, Alfabusa's stated reasoning was pretty solid. He had a kid on the way, and he couldn't afford to roll the dice on having his livelihood held hostage to an infamously litigious company who had just declared exterminatus on him. Which is also why he went with World of Darkness. He had a positive relationship with Paradox from when they hired him to do a Stellaris video, and they have much less retarded licensing terms on fan works.

I'm not saying Alfabusa COULDN'T have lied, but this sounds like somebody's uncle who works at Nintendo came to them in a dream and told them the clickbait-compliant REAL REASON™ that TTS ended.

 

[JesusChristDenton]

Do you have a sauce on this? As much as I miss TTS, Alfabusa's stated reasoning was pretty solid. He had a kid on the way, and he couldn't afford to roll the dice on having his livelihood held hostage to an infamously litigious company who had just declared exterminatus on him. Which is also why he went with World of Darkness. He had a positive relationship with Paradox from when they hired him to do a Stellaris video, and they have much less retarded licensing terms on fan works.

I'm not saying Alfabusa COULDN'T have lied, but this sounds like somebody's uncle who works at Nintendo came to them in a dream and told them the clickbait-compliant REAL REASON™ that TTS ended.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find much evidence other than hearsay and "dude trust me", but I suppose you're right.

 

[Male Idiot]

Their Disney Star Wars one is great.

Lucas: That's not French, its retard! He is speaking retard!

 

[Romeo]

Correction​

So I misspoke about the Bluey Furry Crusades video getting taken down for a claimed copyright violation as it was in actuality taken down for claimed trademark infringement.

From Flashgitz's tweet: https://twitter.com/FlashgitzAnims/status/1805253288331198477​

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The image from Flashgitz's tweet on the takedown confirms this, and reveals that the animators of Bluey, Ludo Studio (not the Australian Broadcast Corporation / ABC), took the video for trademark infringement fearing that the parody could damage the Bluey brand.

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Some lunacy​

People in this thread have already mentioned that furries and Bluey fans took the opportunity to seethe, but I want to introduce ya'll of the mental gymnastics they use by either stating that this video is not a "parody," which can be summed as they didn't laugh, or that parodies are not covered by trademark infringement.

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Bluey fans and furries even managed to put up added context to Flashgitz's tweet regarding parody not part of trademark protection.

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Lawsperging Autism​

I'm no lawyer, but I can already see the problem of this 'context' is that it relies on a Wikipedia article that doesn't include the fuller picture. Parody is included as an exception to trademark infringement in accordance to the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006.

‘‘(3) EXCLUSIONS.—The following shall not be actionable as dilution by blurring or dilution by tarnishment under this subsection: ‘‘(A) Any fair use, including a nominative or descriptive fair use, or facilitation of such fair use, of a famous mark by another person other than as a designation of source for the person’s own goods or services, including use in connection with— ‘‘(i) advertising or promotion that permits consumers to compare goods or services; or ‘‘(ii) identifying and parodying, criticizing, or commenting upon the famous mark owner or the goods or services of the famous mark owner. ‘‘(B) All forms of news reporting and news commentary. ‘‘(C) Any noncommercial use of a mark.​

Source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ312/pdf/PLAW-109publ312.pdf (Archive)

This is confirmed by a law firm on this:

The federal Lanham Act gives us the test for determining trademark infringement. Trademark infringement occurs when one entity uses a mark so similar to another entity’s trademark that consumers would be confused, mistaken or otherwise deceived.

However, the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 gives an exception to trademark infringement in the form of parody. Under that law, the fair use of parody might not constitute trademark infringement under certain circumstances. However, a parody cannot dilute a famous trademark’s reputation.

Source: https://www.conwellbusinesslaw.com/blog/2023/05/supreme-court-hears-parody-and-trademark-infringement-case/#:~:text=Trademark infringement occurs when one entity uses a,to trademark infringement in the form of parody. (Archive)

And what is trademark dilution? From the Wikipedia article itself (Archive):

Trademark dilution is a trademark law concept giving the owner of a famous trademark standing to forbid others from using that mark in a way that would lessen its uniqueness. In most cases, trademark dilution involves an unauthorized use of another's trademark on products that do not compete with, and have little connection with, those of the trademark owner. For example, a famous trademark used by one company to refer to hair care products might be diluted if another company began using a similar mark to refer to breakfast cereals or spark plugs.

Yes, Tom and Don (Flashgitz) are definitely putting the Bluey brand on a bunch of shirts and sex toys to attract people to buy them, that's for sure.

In this case, Flashgitz can legally dispute this as parody is an exception to trademark infringement, and come out on top in accordance to U.S. law. However, Ludo Studio may attempt to drag such a case out in case it does become a court case to run Flashgitz into debt. Tagging the Farms' legal expert @Useful_Mistake for confirmation.

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Also, it is to note that Flashgitz came from the Newgrounds generation of edgy animators in the early stages of YouTube that have parodied many trademarked works, for example, Sonic, Dragon Ball Z, and Overwatch. Ah yes, such commentary on such works.

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[Useful_Mistake]

Parody is included as an exception to trademark infringement in accordance to the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006.

Tagging the Farms' legal expert @Useful_Mistake for cconfirmation.

I don't know the context of how it was used, but indeed parody can be an exception to trademark infringement (though not in cases where logos are copied or nearly copied in order to cause brand confusion). Jack Daniel's Props. v. VIP Prods., 143 S. Ct. 1578, 216 L. Ed. 2d 161 (2023) deals with the standards used in determination, exceptions, and so on.

 

[Romeo]

I don't know the context of how it was used, but indeed parody can be an exception to trademark infringement (though not in cases where logos are copied or nearly copied in order to cause brand confusion). Jack Daniel's Props. v. VIP Prods., 143 S. Ct. 1578, 216 L. Ed. 2d 161 (2023) deals with the standards used in determination, exceptions, and so on.

Here's the archive of the video taken down for trademark infringement: https://www.ghostarchive.org/varchive/vRIA3a4Jc8U