Publicity stunt. The home schooled red state Skeeters who are this band's fan base will flood GoFundMe with their beer money.
Conservatism. Grifting grifters grifting grifting grifters.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
358 points (98.1% liked)
Not The Onion
22285 readers
1138 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Give send go, gofundme is for take populists gsg is pretty specifically conservative.
Being Christian in a field dominated by secular faux-Satanists is so metal that it wraps back around the other side and just becomes lame again.
To prove their point, included in the filing is an email from a person who spent $500 on top-tier tickets to a Demon Hunter concert in Albany, thinking they were purchasing admission to a KPop Demon Hunters event for their children, aged five and six.
I kind of get it. It's not like the movie has nothing to do with music.
mogged? is that what mogged means? i thought it involved the butt.
It certainly can
If it doesn't, I don't want to speak your dialect
This seems like a stretch. The MOVIE had a similar name to the BAND. Remember in 2013 when a movie came out literally called "Rush"? Geddy Lee didn't take Ron Howard to court. Trademarks do not transcend all trades/media. Nintendo has a line of Demon Hunter games. D&D has a class Demon Hunter.
Using search results as the basis is borderline nonsense. Apply that logic to say, a disaster. "Ever since the town of Metallica exploded our search results are down, so we're taking them to court!" Nonsense. How about science? "Since it was announced comet KMFDM, a name derived using some standard naming convention, was announced to be slamming into earth next year, our search results are way down!". TRADEmark, not OWNTHEWORDSmark.
The KPop band is called HUNTR/X. If they had been called Demon Hunters then yeah, probably a case.
If you read the article, it’s NOT about the movie at all.
It’s about the fact that Netflix and AEG are running live concerts under the event name “Kpop Demon Hunters”. NOT the band HUNTR/X.
And the actual band Demon Hunter has evidence that people bought tickets to their show thinking it was the Netflix live show, then requested refunds because of the confusion
So… yeah they do have a case. The live shows are running under the name Demon Hunters, directly confusing people with the actual band Demon Hunter. Especially parents that aren’t really familiar with either, but just want to buy tickets for their kids. Which they say they have direct evidence of people buying tickets then requesting refunds because they were confused about the name.
load more comments
(4 replies)
Sometimes you can just issue a lawsuit and collect on the nuisance value alone. Sort of a get-rich-quick secret of the pharaohs. If you have a lawyer in pocket and your time is less valuable than their money, filing in a friendly court with a plausible case can be worth five or six figures easy. The defense attorneys will cost more than that anyway.
For the next-level shit, go check out how the Westboro Baptist Church makes money. They effectively thrive on lawsuits by being as annoying as possible and then filing claims against anyone who takes a swing at them.
Won’t someone please think of the white, Christian men?
The most persecuted of all.
Christian metal? For good reason too. Lame crap.
Based on what I know of trademark law they have a case. Also, they have sue to protect their trade mark they can loose it.
They have a bit of a case, but not really because "demon hunter" is a generic term that predates their band by hundreds of years (LOL).
Trademark is not copyright or patent. Copyright and patents exist to protect the rights of a creator. Trademarks are more about provenance. It protects brands, but also protects consumers of those brands by preventing confusion.
Trademarks are pretty specific. Dr Pepper's trademark on sugary drinks isn't infringed by a company selling black pepper because nobody will confuse the products.
Wal-Mart can sell sodas that are similar to popular drinks like Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper, but they call them something like "Mountain Lightning" and "Dr Thunder". They're clearly meant to be similar products, but they're also clearly not the name-brand stuff. But Walmart can't start selling a knockoff low-calorie soda and call it "Low-Cal Dr Pepper" because it may mislead customers into thinking it's related to Dr Pepper.
And that's essentially what's being claimed here. The band has a trademark on Demon Hunters that specifically covers a band named Demon Hunters selling tickets for live music events. And while there's going to be some understandable confusion given the popularity of the film, the band alleges that the concerts related to the film should be marketed differently. This is especially true when the band from the film already has a different established name.
The commercialization of Christianity this band takes part in upsets me, but they may also be in the right here. They don't want their fans buying tickets to a K-Pop show instead of theirs, and K-Pop fans will also be pretty upset when they buy tickets and go to a show only to get preached at.
Cool, the word "Queen" is generic so I should be able to start a band named that, no problem.
Turns out that 'generic term' is contextual, and in fact many generic terms are trademark protected especially in the musical group area.
What doesn't help your argument is that it seems Netflix ran the concerts under "kpop Demon Hunter" not "Demon Hunter"
Also it doesn't help that there are 65 entries of bands with "Queen" in their name in the metal genre alone.
https://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=Queen&type=band_name
load more comments
(2 replies)
To prove their point, included in the filing is an email from a person who spent $500 on top-tier tickets to a Demon Hunter concert in Albany, thinking they were purchasing admission to a KPop Demon Hunters event for their children, aged five and six. "Is their[sic] anyway to refund me or get me a credit or something[?]" the person wrote. "If I dont get it refunded I will not be able to purchase tickets to the actual ‘K pop demon hunters show’."
Okay first... That's ridiculous that this parent paid $500 for tickets for their kids.
Second, rough.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Why sue? Just flip their desks and throw them out of the building. /s
view more: next ›