Comments by "Grubby bum" (@grubbybum3614) on "StudioFOW \"Subverse\" Has Forced Me To Retain A Lawyer Over My Trademark Of The Same Name" video.

And he's absolutely wrong that "Subverse" is a made up word, likening it to "Coca Cola". Yes, Subverse is an obsolete word, but it's not unique like Coca Cola (which never existed before that company).
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He keeps saying it's "made up" and "original". It doesn't matter if he intended it to mean sub culture + universe, he never twisted the name/word into something original.
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@davesworld7961 . It sucks that this popular porn game is challenging Tim's Subverse channel. But, any google search over the past few years would have shown that "Subverse" isn't a unique name.
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I agree that Subverse isn't a good brand name. It sounds like "deception", or "revolution" in terms of synonyms.
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@Dashblack09 . He can choose to fight. Is it worth kicking the hornets nest which is "porn gaming", though? It's up to Tim whether he wants all those enemies.
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@bluemeriadoc . And the alternative? Pissing off the gaming community? If Tim thinks people try to sabotage him now, wait until you start a war with the Steam community.
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@ElAndresRodriguez . If you're as big as those companies, it's fine. But for smaller companies, choosing a "dictionary name" will see your brand drown to competitors.
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thestrongbad . Dude, no. This is a good lesson for any new business. Want to call yourself Duck? That'd be stupid. DuckDuckGo is 100% unique, and they're not competing against all the other "duck" brands out there. Protip: choose a unique name.
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@ElAndresRodriguez . Decades? No way. Apple was in Time magazine almost immediately. Besides, even if it did take decades, those are two extremely cherry-picked examples of successful brands... There's hundreds of "Tom's hardwares", "flower powers" or other normal names that haven't succeced.
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@ElAndresRodriguez . Btw, I know first hand. Chose a unique brand name for my business and done quite well. Not going to DOX myself, but let's say I chose the name "Technic" for my business, which I changed to "TeQniQ". So it became completley original.
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He REALLY should delete the other 2 channels, and have all content under "Tim Pool". I know he has all those channels to make it appear he has more subscribers, but it's just confusing.
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@yor9783 . True, he shouldn't call it "Tim Pool", but "Subverse" isn't any better either. Look at successful companies: Coca Cola, Google, Boeing... They're unique names, that didn't come straight out of a dictionary.
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@LachskoenigIV . Subversive...
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