I had lived in Japan and can speak pretty good Japanese. I can say that this is just straight up wrong. LOL where does one even get this info

Notice there’s no “sorry” in the translation

yup. someone is lying here

There are lots of finger-pointing here. Funko said the takedown was done by their partner, BrandShield. BrandShield said it was a URL-specific (or is it subdomain?) takedown, not the whole domain. The registrar, Iwantmyname, responded said takedown by taking down the WHOLE domain.

I think Funko shouldn’t have trusted AI to do legal-related stuff. BrandShield is a stupid idea born from the AI-hype. It’s stupid and shouldn’t have existed. Iwantmyname is just as incompetent if not more–they haven’t even released any public statement about this. Their customer support are also slow to response apparently.

Itch.io should move domain registrar. Funko should stop using BrandShield, it only damages their brand more.

Also what’s up with Funko calling someone’s mom lol. that’s stupid

I also think that this is why AI won’t replace our jobs. I’ve seen many instances where technologies replaces jobs, but this ain’t it

Funko: “Yo mama so fat”

Has Funko, BrandShield, and the registrar released any statements yet?

This is unprofessionalism on MANY many parts

the domain registrar never responded, what a fucking joke. time to switch

What the fuck, I assumed that this issue is resolved by now but turns out itch.io is still can’t be accessed

Can someone explain? How does Funko have such ability?

Chinese soup spoon > european soup spoon

The USDefaultism is already strong back in reddit, but sadly it seems to be worse on Lemmy. Tired of seeing folks from US acting like they’re the main characters, kinda puts me off using this platform

Same for me. It pretty much ruined my life. I don’t know how to cure this.

Trailers for the games I have played:

• Skyrim
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild

haven’t played

• Death Stranding
• Death Stranding 2
• Fallout 4

This Jerma985’s bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPqYvll6XD0

how can you be a fan of “Hawk Tuah”? It’s the unfunniest meme like ever

Slightly relevant:

ya got me right there

Could this be the start of a nouveau French Revolution?

What could be?

You didn’t post any links or context

Bait used to be believable

I was surprised that my Japanese online friend couldn’t differentiate sit and shit… sorry