0:00 thank you [Music] all right I gotta I got a pretty uh I got a good one here okay all right let me uh let me just show you this real quick wait what damn this will pull down homework huh I know this what's going on these are just here Parcels take a look at both of these for me pass them around is that at the your studio wow they look same place they look like um Saved by the Bell also who copies your ████ love the design so uh yeah after you've all seen that I'll tell you a little bit are we gonna show the audience yeah you're gonna you have an up okay boy this is your studio or somebody like for sure coughing it
0:53 what you're looking at uh one of those is the studio that me and smack built and the other one interesting is a place in the UK called Selfie Factory that's like one of those like Mall places that just you can kids can go in there take selfies and they just one for one just ripped the entire design how is that even possible all right let's take these guys to court wow I'm surprised that this was in the UK yeah so I thought they respected art I want to know how smack found this or how you felt apparently it's been around for a while but like it's not so it's a different kind of Studio like our studio is very like uh it's more bespoke it's like people will book to like do these
1:44 very specific shoots like what we have here um and theirs is more of like a place that you can just kind of like walk in you pay like an entrance fee and then you just shoot a bunch of fun stuff it's like a photo booth yeah like Glendale got like that um and then we didn't even know that they had done that and then uh somebody just sent it to smack and was like hey is this your guy's place like what wait what's it called all the way out there yeah so then um so smack hit them up and was like yo what the hell what is this and then um they responded with like dumb ████ they were like a representative from them or maybe the owner I don't remember who it was was like oh yeah um I know how you feel because we've had people copy us before we did it and um and like yeah if you would um I think
2:35 what we did was we just saw it somewhere and we like I don't know if they maybe I just Commissioned I feel like what they did was they just saw it and commissioned a contractor to just copy it yeah uh and then uh they were just basically saying if you like we can take it down change the set or we can put a plaque that says that it's yours oh did you choose the black that's a good I would choose both of those are ████ oh no I thought the Pug was kind of dude come on it honors you all right you can't really I mean it's one of those things that the plaque where it's it's just at least from my point of view it's purely an Ethics issue because like out here we have a really good network of Studios that we all try to be very original and different and we all just try to find
3:25 the pockets that things aren't offered it's like oh no one has this let's make this like there's a good like let's make a gene wall yeah there's a good half a dozen of us that are always trying to like Supply the creative Community with stuff they don't have um I think the best offer would have been like I'll give you X percentage royalties the common sense offer is like hey you guys made money off it yeah cut us a check yeah yeah that's it like it's like I don't give a ████ about a plaque in your name no I don't that but how big is the player yeah and is it gold it's mahogany wood oh interesting it was laughable but uh unless they make a gold statue of me with a throbbing boner I am not going to take that with your Instagram tag yeah it's like an Oscar like award it has to throw up it can't just sit there so the really funny thing about this is that like these were all
4:17 like like they did everything that we did but they don't even know the reason why we did certain things some of this stuff was problem solving like we had made this like checkered corner right here so small because we didn't want people stepping on it because it's hard to like repaint it so we're like let's make it in the corner they did that same thing for no reason and then like all of these because it looks cool the multiple phones and triangles like we were just like oh that'd be kind of cool and they just literally and this box thing was like an extra box thing that I had that I thought it'd be fun to just put it there I actually bought it off of Machine Gun Kelly's music video so he was standing on it before it's like all these things that are pieced from like different times they just look at it and they just go oh and then I think they said that it was on Pinterest ████ which is which I think is ████ because you can't there's no photo on
5:07 Pinterest or anywhere of the entire place like it's always going to be cut into uh too close so they had to go on your website or something they had to go to our actual listing and they had to look through it and collect enough data for a contractor to like make it exactly like that so when if you do that then you rightfully know that you can credit the person because our name is right there so how much would it take for you to be like yeah you could use it I I think if this if they really were like decent people and they were just like Hey we're gonna cut you what it's worth then it wouldn't it would just be worth whatever percentage they're bringing so you'll take a percentage well not percentage of what I mean I would I would think it's appropriate to be like we make x amount yeah sunsets yeah your set is this much of our property oh then this is what how
5:57 long have they been in business it's freaking Brits uh it's for a few years I think but it was after you it's like at the O2 Arena or something yeah but then yeah oh it's not the O2 Arena yeah it's like somewhere in that shopping area or something really you know what I think I think you guys copied to say by the Bell Diner they come at you and take your ████ house Max yeah yeah you guys love the max huh it's funny because they just had a pop-up like a couple years ago yeah you went to that it was really good that's how I copied it oh you were inspired weren't you no I just I just thought I just thought it reminded me of like uh like we thought it reminded us of like you know the Old Trapper Keepers yeah like 90s like 90s like binder but then what's your inspiration the technique of cutting these shapes and doing all these things and the they got the same shelves it's like it's so one-to-one like paid
6:48 by numbers that were like why couldn't you have changed the colors yeah the background there's like lime green there's just so many different and they have a lot of great sets so I'm like you it's not beyond your skill to just go all right change that to a blue what if all the other great sets are just a collection of other photos honestly it it could it could very well be um because out here like in LA it's it's a pretty big thing at least out here if you're copying a direct competitor yeah like it doesn't really happen very often so is there like a photo booth Mafia or something I think that like breaks their legs no you want to ████ take our Trapper Keeper idea ████ it's just because out here we're a community so it's like if so and so is copying then everybody's gonna go dude bro what are you doing like yeah do you have like a Facebook group or something oh we have a Discord small Network that we what what
7:38 our network does is it not it's not uh it's not usually just to have different designs it's mainly to keep problematic uh photographers or people from renting our places yeah so like if somebody comes in and then they just do a ████ show then we tell everyone else in the network don't they don't yeah that's the main thing but then also like we're all we're also really good with like sharing ideas and like being like Oh nobody has this you should do that like it's it's a really cool thing so it's weird when some corporate random thing from another place like visits LA and just jacks everything and takes it to another place and doesn't see the art in like oh like people tried really hard out here to like have something different so what's your message to what's the name of this photo studio selfie Factory hey check it out if you're in the UK check it out we got a great one-to-one replica
8:29 but they've been like because because smack like posted about it on her Tick Tock and then like a bunch of people saw it and they were like I think they were like commenting on their page being like ████ you guys yeah but then I think they just delete everything and block people so they're not really like they're not fast enough to it really they're just trying dirty lines I said it yesterday bro get your own material yeah they're just mad they lost the ████ they're so pissed about it they can't get over it I mean it's if I would be like if I didn't predict this type of thing would happen and I thought it would happen a lot sooner to everybody I but you just don't know when it hasn't happened out here yet where some corporate minded people who are not artists Go and Jack everything and then they just go what do you do about it that doesn't happen out here yet but of course it would happen overseas like what can you do have you ever thought about having a room that's just Anthony Lee's head in a bunch of different
9:19 shapes and sizes that would have been good I think we can have one here surprise it's like denying 911. supporting 911. a 911 did it really happen yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah like that yeah he makes me he's like yeah I don't know if Anthony would sign off to something like that I don't think we I think we just saw a picture you just have to adjust it by a few things and you'll be you know I think you should be grateful for all this free publicity I think that uh that just boggles my mind it's like there's so many places to have changed the idea enough to make it their own but they clearly have the mentality
10:09 of like what are they gonna do about it let's just copy it exactly yeah you know which is the thing that you know as a creative you are gonna run into that and there's gonna be a lot of times where you can't do anything about it you just said this is what it is they literally uh were just like yeah they were just like hey I mean that's all they offered was either a black or they'll change the set they're like we'll give you one free shoot say both two three hours but it ████ that doesn't make any but then if you huge location that people know you're in the UK in that one oh ████ that's cool I think you should consider the plaque dude oh really plaques aren't cheap by the way yeah you get a nice one a nice bronze one like a couple hundred value of the plaque might be more than what they would give me percentage-wise and then make sure that every client that comes in through the doors takes a picture
11:00 with it you guys actually you know what though that'd be really funny because think about the guy who runs that place is like ████ dude I have to get a plaque like it's kind of Patrol what if it's a plaque that you choose I'd rather just change the scent actually and you're like ████ walk by the plaque and it's a gold statue of me with a throbbing boner yeah give him dimensions and it says start Asian hate yeah at the very bottom we support Asian hey and it's me doing a Superman pose it's a funny thing about like like these things are totally like gonna happen but it just sucks that like there's nothing more small business than this like we have something so little and then these people fly over and then just Jack stuff
11:50 hey this is this is what we do all the JK people watching you guys have to go to the selfie Factory page and then just write make the plaque no dude Ryan no no dude that's a lot I spoke about this with my girlfriend we would like the plaque and then you're like and then you're like my name by the way is Nazi war leader 69 420. oh my God that's so funny dude you cited Dash War leader you could call me Nazi this is a Nazi war leader exclusive and then have that save them like eight options and they're all bad
12:40 thank you foreign
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