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And that’s basically it!
Said it in another thread with the same thumbnail:
If they didn't want people to lust after their mascot, they shouldn't have given her "fuck me" eyes and a sultry smile. This is the internet, they should have anticipated this.
It's big in Wales
Whales are indeed big.
Bluesky’s thriving furry community started posting their own images of her. Though The Spinoff hasn’t viewed them, it understands some were quite pornographic.
Journalism is dead
This isn't journalism, it's an ad. I hadn't heard of Kiwibank until right now.
I took the commenter's implication to be that True Journalists would have looked into the images and been able to confirm if they were, in fact, pornographic.
Maybe don't show her out on a date, then?
Jealous?
I would imagine New Zealanders should be sensitive and wise about sheep sexualisation jokes...
Obligatory Thanks Smokey
The CEO presses pause, the mascot sheep looking over the boardroom in coquettish freeze-frame. "Guys, you've gotta tell me, nobody thinks this sheep is fuckable, right? We didn't put a CM out with a sexy sheep on purpose, did we?"
The VP loosens his collar. The marketing team fidget and look around the table, anywhere to avoid the gaze of the CEO.
"Guys? It's not fuckable, right?"
A junior exec caves. "M-maybe a little bit?"
"God FUCKING damnit!"
Must be newly hired FBI.
The glorious days on which all the furries on Twitter harassed Tony the Tiger.
Kash Patel has entered the chat.
Kash is happily married
did they not learn when australia brought sheep with chlamydia to continent, and infecfted the koalas.
Yeah. Sure. But is it bringing in the bucks? I mean sheep? I mean customers?
This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner
Other Bluesky furry accounts have accused Kiwibank of censoring sexy sheep art that wasn’t even connected to Buck in any way, essentially making their work collateral damage in a war over a reputably fuckable farm animal from New Zealand.
The DMCA is out of control
Since when does the DMCA apply in Aotearoa?
The Spinoff has seen several of the takedown requests, which were issued under the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). They were sent out by Christopher Young, a partner at the prominent law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts who specialises in intellectual property law. The notice viewed by The Spinoff accuses 10 accounts, including @jestermaxxing, of having “taken Kiwibank’s distinctive Buck image and used it to make highly sexualised and inappropriate copies which infringe the Kiwibank copyright”. X appears to have complied with the complaint.
DMCA takedowns are valid regardless of what country they come from I think, and both Twitter and Bluesky are based in the US
The fallout appears to be spreading. “I want to fuck the National Bank horse,” says one account.
I'm fuckin dead
Something about beating a dead horse
Beating off one at least.