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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1935 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 9, 2025

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Reading this immediately after reading the discussion of Dom Toretto’s Charger in Tinker Tuesday was trippy.

I had very important questions about the Reunification Wars of the Fast and Furious universe.

Well, it all started in 2078, when a rights dispute within Catholic Studios (formerly Universal, prior to their formal registration as a religion for tax avoidance purposes, with the name chosen in hopes of leveraging support from low-information-voters) resulted in both the LA and New York branches claiming control of the organization. William Pope of the LA office claimed the CEO position, while Dean Pope (no relation) of the New York office contesting the claim. Public disapproval for the whole mess resulted in a grassroots "Anti-Pope" movement, and a sudden outpouring of unauthorized, AI-generated bootleg sequels to many of Catholic Studios' popular media properties, particularly the Fast And Furious franchise. By the time the corporate succession crisis was concluded, then-CEO Charles Avignon learned that due to fine print in the copyright statutes IP rights could be voided unless a property maintained "sufficient narrative cohesion between its most popular iterations", otherwise reverting to the status of uncopyrightable "folklore". Many of the fan-made Fast And Furious films had been fashioned with these factors in mind, leaving Avignon with few options but to attack the fan consensus directly by both releasing new films and attempting to scrub the fan-content from the internet through any means, fair or foul. Thus began the information war over the Reunification of the Fast and Furious universe...

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