#genericization

Casually contributing to ruining brand names by saying stuff like "Yeah, you can google it on StartPage." "I use PhotoPea to photoshop things." Get genericized, idiot.

I'm all for trademark infringement. Any wad of toilet paper is a kleenex. Any adhesive strip thats stops bleeding is a bandaid. I love popping bubblewrap and eating popsicles and cleaning my ears with q-tips, but the one brand I never call by name is "post-it note." Post-it note? What are you, a cop? Buddy, that's a sticky note. Nobody calls them post-its, that's just dumb! All permanent markers are sharpies, all packing material is styrofoam, all search engines are google, I use white-out and jetskis and scotch tape and saran wrap and velcro and tupperware, but I will be deep in the cold, cold ground before I start calling them post-it notes.

Random headcanon for a Touhou character who's technically decanonized twice over: Ruukoto is mass-produced, so like Yumemi just gave Reimu the alternate-dimension-future equivalent of a roomba. Also, "Ruukoto" 1. isn't actually her individual personal name, it's a brand name, and 2. it's not even her brand name, it's a genericized trademark like "xerox" or "band-aid" where people started using it as a common word independent of the brand to the point that they brand-owners couldn't maintain it as a trademark only they could use, like with "apple" or "windows" except coming from the other direction. "Ruukoto" is just what people in Yumemi's home dimension call nuclear-powered robot maids, regardless of manufacturer.

i love genericization of brands i love big fuckoff companies losin money cause their shit is no longer proprietary i love google & photoshop as verbs i love tellin corporations to Fuck Off