It's kind of weird that a meme that started on 4chan made it into a movie, videogames, got a bunch of merch and is now trademarked by WB as a separate character
>>152302194That'll hold im awright
What does "Big Chungus" even mean?
>Big Chungus comes from /lit/>Big Chungus is the only meme /lit/ has ever contributed to the wider internet ecosystem
>>152302194somehow, he's still around
>>152302194>is now trademarked by WB as a separate characterIs this true?If so how does shit like this even work legally? They already own Bugs Bunny, so are they legally just allowed to take the name "Big Chungus" without giving anything to the person who gave him that name?
>>152302293Yeah they added him to their mobile game.
Can we get a lawyer here
>>152302314I remember seeing that character reveal in my YouTube feed years ago.Is the game any good?
>>152302293I want to say their lawyers looked into it first but with how business runs, they got away with it because no one sued them for ownership of Big Chungus and they're assuming that's because they have legal right to it.
>>152302265> the only meme /lit/ has ever contributed to the wider internet ecosystemYou're forgetting the Oats dear brother
>>152302194I don't understand why I used to find this hilarious.
>>152302194Bugs..............lay off the carrots...
>>152302265It was me Barry comes from /co/, and The Backrooms comes from /x/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUP4butezo8
>>152302876don't get me started with /dbs/ lingo
>>152302194I always think about this videohttps://youtu.be/srTqxL_6Ysg?si=yuoiNOiQ-J-Zrc96It's really fitting actually.
>>152302265I see that /lit/ post about making references to your own unpublished novel every so oftenand don't forget /leftypol/ is a /lit/ spinoff so if you want, you can put anything they did on /lit/'s shoulders I guess
>>152302194not that weird
>>152302314>level 69
BIG CHUNGUS AMONG US
>>152302534If it wasn't a free to play gacha itd be a solid 6/10
>>152302194Not so surprising once you see how Looney Tunes's social media pages are handled. They're desperate to seem "with it" https://x.com/LooneyTunes
>>152302265Was the James Joyce brap copypasta from /lit/
>>152302293>If so how does shit like this even work legally? A trademark can have very narrow application. It is also not concerned with matters of authorship, but of granting exclusive usage (or intent to use) of imagery and words in commerce. It operates on a first come, first serve basis. WB owns it because they registered it, not because they created it.For a related example, look up how Tesla fumbled the registration of "Cybercab.">are they legally just allowed to take the name "Big Chungus" without giving anything to the person who gave him that nameWhat would they be paying him for? Coming up with a name or meme is not sufficiently substantial or creative enough for copyright protection. Even if it were, it was created in relation to a character WB owns. In other words, it's derivative art, which the original copyright owner can control.
>>152304988They've always been like that.
>>152304988I still remember when that account posted fetish art and pirated screenshots of one of the reboots
>>152302194Many such cases, Fionna and Cake being another one
>>152302876>>152302265/m/ basically memed Grease Blizzard into happening
>>152302242it's literally just a ripoff of tim and eric style humor by some retarded zoomer he though he was being clever and that nobody would noticed
>>152302293what would it matter? I'm guessing whoever made the original post has no way to actually prove it was him. pretty sure you can just copyright anything that doesn't have any copyright history, especially if it's derivative of your own work.
>>152305034the hat in time account posted cropped shadman art by mistake. these people just don't pay attention.
>>152302265What??
>>152302293Copyright law easily reaches such insane level of bullshit you'd think german philosophers wrote it, it's completely possible to end up in a deadlock where some guy on reddit doesn't own bugs bunny but owns the name and concept of "Big Chungus" because he made enough watermarked edits to count as derivative work, and if you use fat Bugs Bunny and just call him something else like "the Chonkler" you're now infringing on HIS rights so neither of you can use the character until you give him ten bucks to fuck off or he gives you a billion dollars for the IP.
>>152302265>With a car, you can go anywhere you want
>>152305537Lol, what?
>>152302314what the-
>>152302876scp as a whole came from /x/ as well>>152305672any examples of something like that holding up in court?i'm curious as this makes me think about all the tards fighting over the rights of their sonic.exe variants and that they might have a claim to it which is bonkers
>>152302194Lay off the carrots, Bugs.
>>152302194wont stop reddit from taking credit for it tho
>>152302265>Big Chungus comes from /lit/ fr?
>>152302853Now those are some porky pigs!
>>152302265I'm pretty sure the /lit/ meme and Big Chungus are two separate things that just happened to use the same screenshot.
>>152302194What if lola turned into big chungus
>>152315049would be pretty weird hahah
>>152311574Aren't carrots supposed to be GOOD for you, though?
>>152302265I've seen normies remake the niggers could be here copypasta from /lit/, presumably it got human centipeded into something else and they don't know the original
>>152316301Not for rabbits. They usually eat grass and leaves, not roots.If you put an entire carrot in front of a rabbit it will usually eat the leaves first.
>>152316629There are so many children using sharty lingo like gem, keyed, o algo, vantablack coal, who are still too ignorant to know 4chan and the sharty aren't the same website. I've seen an uptick in normies using kino too.
>>152316682I'm just imagining a big fat neckbeard towering over a gen alphoomer and berating them for their "ignorance towards imageboard culture"
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>Originally starts out as "Bugs... easy on the carrots">Lasts a few months and then completely dies out>Someone posts the same image again but this time just says "Big Chungus">It explodes all over the internet for yearsGenuinely one of the more bizarre meme lifecycles I've seen.
>>152302194You're surprised by this? A large swath of internet culture originates from 4chan, co-opted by tourists who then spread it to their communities where it gets spread even further until you end up hearing random teenage fucks on TikTok calling something "based".It's part and parcel of being on this site. You pile enough shit in one place, eventually something will grow.
Didn't they also put "Literally Me" Daffy into a game too?
>>152317206How’d you get this picture of me?
>>152302242>>152302265The word dates back to the 17th century and means mortally obese person, it's much older then you think.
>>152317186I don't know, I just thought most memes at this point originate from tik tok and twitter since most people don't use 4chin
>>152317206World of Mayhem, yes. That game has some bizarre deep cuts.
>>152317288>most people don't use 4chinAs much as regulars, no. But an unspoken rule of social media is that because 4chan conversations are generally unfiltered due to anonymity, they are considered to be the funniest and most entertaining conversations out there. Screencaps of threads get shared everywhere from Tumblr and Reddit to Facebook and X and beyond, where people can experience 4chan humor without actually coming to the site.Memes from 4chan, when they are spread to other sites, are presented as pseudo-absurdist humor because the context is almost completely lost on those who have never come here. When you see a meme spreading here, if you lurk long enough you'll get some understanding of how it started, whether it be a helpful anon outright explaining the joke or simply gleaning the meaning from repeated usage. But someone on Tumblr has none of that, so when they see a picture of Daffy Duck in a zoot suit with the caption "literally me", they laugh because it's so bizarre.
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