i know it's kinda bound to happen since they're all manufactured over there but it still makes me sad when I go on Aliexpress and see knockoff enamel pins. Like I don't usually have many qualms with knockoffs, because yknow, big company? fuck em. But when it's enamel pins from small artists, kinda sucks. especially when they have basically 0 recourse
a friend of mine (who's on here, actually!), in a previous life, designed fan patches for space missions, and got low volume runs done, had a distributor and everything
someone lifted the most popular spacex design wholesale and it got knocked off hard, it sucked.