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I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

"She blocked me!" It's not surprising if you wrote that she was acting unreasonably, that Mr. Puzzles is not like RGB, and other such nonsense.

Here's a childish analogy: you're being bullied in school, you decide to contact the parents of the people who bullied you, but they remain silent, even though one of them simply said that bullying is bad, which obviously didn't help you. So you contact the principal of the school, and he decides to help you,but because of the principal's ferocity, other students, out of fear of getting under hot hand, began blaming you, saying things like, "You could have just ignored those who bullied you! Now we'll all be held accountable because of you." You decide to cut off all ties with those who told you this, which is obvious; no one wants to hear how they deserved the bullying and that it's their fault.

I hope this analogy was clear, and maybe even familiar to some.

Regarding plagiarism, I've seen many people say there's no such, that the details in the RGB's design are too obvious to call Puzzles plagiarism. But let's think about it: If someone copies Luna as cat from Sailor Moon, would that be plagiarism? Yes, of course, but the design is obvious! It's just a black cat with a crescent moon on its forehead—anyone could have come up with that. Yeah, sure, but that wouldn't make it any less plagiarism, right? So your certainty that there's no plagiarism is a question of the character's popularity: If Mod would create RGB later than Puzzles,yall would go crazy and try to cancel her,but because she created him over ten years ago and she is still not that popular,that's not really your problem,huh?

Now, Mod is acting correctly. If SMG4 doesn't respond to her, they'll respond to J4A, a company that is a network of lawyers specializing in copyright as i know.

Do you really think that acting legally is "unprofessional"? That instead of continuing to pointlessly knock on doors that won't open for a small creator, she turned to those who open up such doors legally is "stupid" and "too far"?

Most of you are simply afraid that the show will be canceled because of this, or that the cat will be turned into a dog, but Mod has already said more than once that she does not want the show to be canceled, and has suggested the most minor changes to the design of Puzzles.

At the moment, the parties NEED a conversation to reach a compromise and resolve the situation.

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Thank you to everyone who has been sending such kind messages, I promise I really do read them all, even if I can't reply, but while these messages are wonderful (and really. I mean it. just the nicest and most heartfelt things I've ever seen) the sad fact is they don't change my situation. But you can change it. You can help me.

If you know my situation, if you want to help me, please write to Glitch Productions. They are the only people who can, and I believe, might, be able and willing to save me. SMG4 has ignored me, even through a legal letter. I have no hope that they will do otherwise, but Glitch are a different case and I think they just genuinely don't know I exist. I have sent them a message, to no reply, but more messages means more of a chance they will notice. IF you are on twitter please message that way, I closed my account there years ago, and please be polite: I am not asking for hate, even if I've received it.

1) TIMELINE RGB was created long before, over a decade before Mr. Puzzles first debuted. (*RGB's first appearance may have been 2011, was a little iffy on that)

2) UNDENIABLY UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE The number of traits, some uniquely specific to and representative of RGB's design, that are copied in Mr. Puzzles design are too many to be chalked up to 'just a coincidence'

Especially when you look at the designs of all of the other TV head characters out there - I collected as many as I could find (though I'm sure there's more) and none of them come even close to sharing the number of similarities that these two do.

3) TV MODEL AND DESIGN CHOICES While looking up references for older TVs, I found that for the exact TV they're based on (small retro box TV with knobs in the upper right of the TV and an antenna) most of the references didn't have a vent on the side of them like RGB and Mr. Puzzles do.

I looked up 4 different reference terms, and still had to scroll a while before I found one that matched exactly (above collection just a general sample/example of types of TVs I found). Unless my browsers are wigging out, either the pictures that would come up for these kinds of TVs were different in 2023, or this exact combination of features are just not very common for this style of TV. If that's the case, it may be a bit strange to design a character with those features together.

Here's where that distinction is important: Mr. Puzzles as a character doesn't have much of a reason to go with this design over other styles of similar TVs. But RGB does. The vents on the sides of RGB's head aren't just an aesthetic choice - they're included as a legitimately integral part of the story-line (Negative RGB). The same can be said for a number of other choices Modmad has made, down to individual items of clothing, that show just how much thought and intention and consideration went into every aspect of RGB's design.

Which makes it that much more frustrating to see him get plagiarized in such a careless manner by people who don't even seem to put much care into their own character (common criticism I've read that SMG4 fans have had about Mr. Puzzles and his 'arc').

4) OTHER PEOPLE, EVEN THOSE WHO HADN'T HEARD ABOUT THE SITUATION FROM MOD, NOTICED This has been noted by fans of both series since Mr. Puzzles first came out.