On the other hand, if they put this on a mass-produced T-shirt and they didn't get permission from whatever schmuck "owns" it that is possibly the funniest fucking thing they could have done
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in reply to @CERESUltra's post:
The image of the bored ape has already stayed in the culture like five times as long as its original context, in 50 years teenagers are going to be getting tattooed with apes to try to look exotic or subversive. 200 and people are going to be ascribing them magical powers, again
in reply to @DeCosterMakesThings's post:
i want this to be a case where they don't "own" it
but my gut tells me that they bought it and at the very least wanted to write it off as a business expense
I'm pretty sure there are a few apes that are, like, actually registered trademarks owned by the creators of the NFT that they lease out through more traditional avenues. The owners of the BAYC brand are capitalists who crave legitimacy and want to do actual collaborations with with established brands.
For every tech bro who's got a SICK idea for a crypto themed burger barn and is willing to put up with blockchain bullshit there's gotta be at least one Anheuser-Busch marketing exec who's gonna tell them to go fuck themselves if they won't sign a standard contract. So my guess is that these apes are actually trademarked like normal brand mascots, in the way that a lot of DAOs are actually legally LLCs with owners rather than actually decentralized voting blocks. For all their talk of decentralization these guys just want to make money, and that's going to take precedent.
