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Cathy Outlet

Shoutout to NBC Universal and for banning my version of the poster, despite having policies stating that parodies fall under fair use. I'm pretty sure not a single human being was involved in issuing the takedown and evaluating my counter claim.

A parody of the Jaws poster, drawn digitally by me, featuring a big shovelnose catfish facing upwards in place of the shark. The red text at the top of the poster reads "BARBELS", in a similar font to the original. The fish has three sets of barbels, two of which are pointing upwards towards the surface. There is no swimming lady in this version of the poster.
#SundayFishSketch#Mastoart#FishArt
Jan 29, 2023, 06:25 PM·Public
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Cathy Outlet

Here's another variation of my poster. This version pokes fun at the ridiculous headlines involving giant, dachshund-eating that occasionally pop up in regional newspapers. Barteln is the German word for barbels.

This is the same parody of the Jaws poster as described in my previous post, only this time the "Barbels" has been replaced with "Barteln", still in the style of the Jaws font. A swimming dachshund has been photoshopped onto the image where the swimming lady would have been in the original Jaws poster. It looks like the catfish is about to come up and swallow it.
#CreativeToots#FishArt
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Cathy Outlet

Here are some screenshots of the aforementioned whacky headlines (crudely translated by me):

1. Is the monster catfish of Lüdelsen responsible for the death of a dog?

2. How many more innocent Dachshunds must die? (from Mönchengladbach)

3. Giant Catfish eats Dog (from Seina)

4. 2.5-Meter-Catfish even eats Swans (somewhere in Bavaria)

It’s almost like some kind of modern-day folklore…

Screenshot of an German news site featuring an article with a healine that roughly translaltes to: "Is the monster catfish of Lüdelsen responsible for the death of a dog?" The page features a picture of someone holding a giant wels catfish.
Screenshot of an online article from the Spiegel, titled "How many more innocent Dachshunds must die?" There is a small red text above the title that reads "Killer-Catfish Kuno".
A screenshot from the page of the "Kronen Zeitung", featuring a headline that roughly translates to "Giant Catfish eats Dog", with a picture of a big wels catfish sticking its mouth out of the water to eat pellets.
A screenshot from yet another German news page featuring the headline "2.5-Meter-Catfish even eats Swans", along with a picture of a big wels catfish sticking its upper body out of the water.
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Cathy Outlet

...this genre of headlines was so prevalent it attracted its own meta-commentary:

1. What the hell is going on with catfish?

2. Giant Catfish swallows Dachshund in the Weser – did it really happen or is it Fake News?

There's even a song dedicated to "Killer-Catfish Kuno", a quasi-mythical dachshund-eating catfish responsible for a lot of headlines in the early 2000s:

youtube.com/watch?v=MprNN3Ajeqs

Screenshot of a German VICE article featuring a headline that can be translated to "What the hell is going on with catfish?", along with a picture of a wels catfish underwater.
Another screenshot featuring a headline stating "Giant Catfish swallows Dachshund in the Weser – did it really happen or is it Fake News?" (originally in German). The page features a photo of a wels with a hook in its mouth being pulled out of the water, and a photo of a dachshund puppy photoshopped into a red circle is superimposed onto it.
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Kathy Murdoch :pastille_lemon:

@CatharticOutlet Ugh that sucks! It's the lightest possible parody too, does Universal just take down every fish looking upwards underwater? 😠

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Cathy Outlet

@kapellosaur I think it’s a fully automated system based on image recognition, so anything with a similar layout and colors will be flagged. I’m probably not the only one who was affected. I contested it, at which point the claim should’ve been reviewed by a human, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t as I got a generic, seemingly automated response letting me know my use of Jaws was not authorized by NBC. :welp:

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