I was very lucky to work with @TheWeebl for 10 years on commercial projects.
Whoever made that shitty unicorn ripoff for Quorn … I can guarantee you’d have had the chance to create something great if you’d only done the decent thing first and talked to him.
Somewhere in Leeds a few peoples morning has gone from "oh wow our social stuff is getting some decent views" to "uh oh".
Just because it's on the web or a meme doesn't mean you can use it commercially. If "creative" is in your job title you should know this.
Any lawyers out there love smacking down copyright trolls? The co-peer-right-agency have copyright strikes my 10hour channel on my own work. Messaged several times without reply. Claim is entirely fraudulent and yet there will be no price to pay by them.
I was once invited to speak at McKinsey. I started by asking, “how many of you have ever started or run your own business?” No one put their hands up. I then announced the name of my presention, “Anything is easy when you don’t have to do it”.
I’ve not been invited back.
We are all the CEOs of our own lives: utterly unqualified, totally incompetent, avoiding responsibility for our terrible decisions, taking credit for the flukes that somehow worked despite our lack of skill or insight