Guy Who Made "Left Shark" Costumes Is Now Being Sued By Katy Perry's Lawyers And This Story Officially Sucks
(CNN)The “Left Shark,” as seen dancing awkwardly behind Katy Perry during Sunday night’s Super Bowl, became nothing short of an overnight phenomenon, spinning off memes for days afterward on social media. Like any phenomenon, of course there are creative people who might be interested in turning it into a business idea. Enter Fernando Sosa, who 3-D prints politically themed sculptures (a number of which are “not safe for work”) and sells them online. This time he went decidedly apolitical, creating and printing a Left Shark figure, which he put up for sale for $24.99, shortly after the Super Bowl.
On Wednesday, the Orlando resident heard from Perry’s lawyers. “Our client [Perry] recently has learned that you have been involved in the manufacture, sale, marketing and distribution of merchandise featuring a shark sculpture which embodies and uses the [Super Bowl halftime show], and that you have displayed this product on your website, in connection with such sale and distribution,” the letter read. The letter from the law offices of Greenberg Traurig demanded that Shapeways.com, the website where Sosa sells his sculptures, cease and desist selling the product, and that he turn over any products he had in his possession.
You know that movie Human Centipede where they sew one person’s face to another person’s asshole and then do it again for ever and ever so that people are just constantly shitting down each other’s throat for the rest of time?
That’s exactly what this entire thing is. That’s exactly how 2015 works. Katy Perry has a halftime show, creates some stupid 5 second meme that was funny for a day, at most, then the internet and the buzzfeeds of the world eat it, and poop it down our throats.
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Then some young guy comes along and says, ooh, I want to make a buck, Ill take this shark meme, eat it, and poop out a shark costume that everyone else can have shoved down their throat. Then it gets back to Katy Perry and she gets her lawyers who come and shit down everyone’s throat and rain on the whole parade. End Scene.
Full Disclosure, when I started this analogy in my head it made sense and then I typed it out it sort of didn’t, especially the part about the lawyers pooping down everyones throat, but it’s Friday and I don’t feel like re-writing the entire blog so the final thought is this. Human Centipedes are the worst thing ever. The fact that a 5 second meme got made into a real life costume and that real life costume then got a cease and desist from real life lawyers is also the worst thing ever. See the connection? End blog.