Not sure if this belongs in the general cringe thread or on its own but here we are.
It seems this year's starting off on a fun note with some shit going down between Rearz, AwwSoCute and the rest of the ABDL™ community. I'm not sure on the full timeline here so I'm just writing things down in the order that I found them in and this is a super abridged version.
Earlier tonight, posts were showing up on Tumblr, Reddit, etc, stating that Rearz had filed to trademark the term "ABDL" back in October. After people found this out and the news spread, Rearz posted a statement on their website(image 1). The way I understand their post, it sounds like they're saying they did this to help advertise and sell on mainstream platforms as the acronym "ABDL" was apparently banned. If they could show that they held a trademark on the acronym, it could be used in advertising and product listings. They're saying that they don't have any malicious ideas about suing other companies that use "ABDL" anywhere on their sites and Rearz is a medical supply company turned sex shop so I'm not sure what the fuck they're actually going to do with the trademark but people are drawing a lot of parallels with the Fine Bros. situation a couple years back.
Yesterday, AwwSoCute posted a warm "happy new year" message on their Instagram (Image 2)with an indication that they were going to sue Rearz and LittleForBig and potentially 15 other companies or people in a class action lawsuit in regards to some copyright issue. Ironically the picture they use for this post includes a picture of the castle from DisneyLand.
There are some other details that I'm missing because I don't understand them that well like some other company had filed a trademark even earlier for "The ABDL Shop" which was granted and Rearz is trying to compare their filing to that somehow.
I might just be sperging about this a bit but does anyone else find this dumpster fire of a new year entertaining?