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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago

We reached out the admin of Itch.io's mother and made threats against her.

That's the real situation.

Funko is a corrupt, evil company.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The sad thing I cant do anything more to hurt funko as I've never bought their stupid little dolls

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

They've done enough to hurt themselves.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

I am so confused by all this. It makes me feel old.

Funko is essentialy just plastic, shitty Beanie Babies, right? They do nothing original, from what I can tell.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

At united health care we really respect all the money we extract from all your dying folks and recently we noticed that one of you died one of us. So we started a manhunt for anyone of you and now we got a rando who sort of looks the part. Thank you for the inconvenience. We will be ghosts now since you won't find any of our names online starting now...wait not, starting now!

[–] oVerde@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Come on, man.

I support reigning in corrupt oligarchs (full asset seizure, 20 years mandatory community service as a live-in junior janitor in a hospice care facility) as much as the next person, but this is stupid.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 days ago

Uh no, this was annoying but none of the companies involved deny care for sick people which increases their chance to die.

[–] kworpy@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

wait bowser is back? motherfucker never learns

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

community notes is the best thing post-musk twitter ever did and i hope the idea spreads to other platforms

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

It's a matter of time before he sacks it. Kinda surprised he hasn't already.

[–] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It’s good in theory but still doesn’t work. For political lies, someone from both parties has to approve the note and the conservative often vetoes it.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What's to say that this wasn't just a combination of stupid actions?

Someone makes a report with the wrong category. Someone takes a way over-the-top action in response to the report.

There are a lot of idiots with a lot of power who do things without thinking them through.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

combination of stupid actions

IT was certainly a combination of stupid actions. But about the time the called his mother, it got kinda personal.

[–] RedStrider@lemmy.world 191 points 1 week ago (21 children)
[–] ILikePigeons@lemmy.ml 100 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is actually just disgusting.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago

Straight outta the scummy debt collector playbook

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 179 points 1 week ago (17 children)

So, how much is Funko or their "partner" going to willingly pay Itch for their lost income? Or is there going to have to be a lawsuit?

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Itch doesn't appear interested in suing unfortunately. I want them to, not because I'm bloodthirsty, but to set precedent that this wreckless use of AI content moderation isn't OK. I can imagine Disney and Nintendo following this.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago

They really should because the law has already decided that AI isn't an independent entity, and is essentially just a computer program.

So whoever initiated the AI is ultimately responsible for its behavior, they can't claim the AI malfunctioned because they chose not to bother having any human oversight, they knew that this was always a possibility and still they took responsibility for it.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 133 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Either Funko is lying or their "brand protection partner" is lying. Also, what the fuck does Funko have to protect? The only thing they actually created was those beady little eyes they put on everyone else's IP.

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 100 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funko and their "partner" should be fined for fraud.

[–] ReCursing@lemmings.world 83 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Funko should shut down out of embarrassment. Not about this specifically, just because of their entire product line

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[–] pacology@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“We reached out to itch.io” aka we called his mom.

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