Checked them out. Calling them metal is very generous.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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Can't you see, you're not making Christianity better, you're just making metal worse.
Publicity stunt. The home schooled red state Skeeters who are this band's fan base will flood GoFundMe with their beer money.
Conservatism. Grifting grifters grifting grifting grifters.
It’s a grift grifting grift for grifting grifting grifts.
Give send go, gofundme is for take populists gsg is pretty specifically conservative.
Being Christian in a field dominated by secular faux-Satanists is so metal that it wraps back around the other side and just becomes lame again.
To prove their point, included in the filing is an email from a person who spent $500 on top-tier tickets to a Demon Hunter concert in Albany, thinking they were purchasing admission to a KPop Demon Hunters event for their children, aged five and six.
I kind of get it. It's not like the movie has nothing to do with music.
Imagine spending $500 on something and not, idk looking at the fucking promo picture. Also, Demon Hunter is objectively better than Huntr/x.
I still can't get over the fact that this shit-tier band even tries to sell $500 tickets!
Also, Demon Hunter is objectively better than Hunter/x
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Christian Metal band
I respect your opinion, but I doubt its accuracy.
This seems like a stretch. The MOVIE had a similar name to the BAND. Remember in 2013 when a movie came out literally called "Rush"? Geddy Lee didn't take Ron Howard to court. Trademarks do not transcend all trades/media. Nintendo has a line of Demon Hunter games. D&D has a class Demon Hunter.
Using search results as the basis is borderline nonsense. Apply that logic to say, a disaster. "Ever since the town of Metallica exploded our search results are down, so we're taking them to court!" Nonsense. How about science? "Since it was announced comet KMFDM, a name derived using some standard naming convention, was announced to be slamming into earth next year, our search results are way down!". TRADEmark, not OWNTHEWORDSmark.
The KPop band is called HUNTR/X. If they had been called Demon Hunters then yeah, probably a case.
obligatory upvote for mentioning Rush, i.e. greatest F1 movie ever made
If you read the article, it’s NOT about the movie at all.
It’s about the fact that Netflix and AEG are running live concerts under the event name “Kpop Demon Hunters”. NOT the band HUNTR/X.
And the actual band Demon Hunter has evidence that people bought tickets to their show thinking it was the Netflix live show, then requested refunds because of the confusion
So… yeah they do have a case. The live shows are running under the name Demon Hunters, directly confusing people with the actual band Demon Hunter. Especially parents that aren’t really familiar with either, but just want to buy tickets for their kids. Which they say they have direct evidence of people buying tickets then requesting refunds because they were confused about the name.
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Sometimes you can just issue a lawsuit and collect on the nuisance value alone. Sort of a get-rich-quick secret of the pharaohs. If you have a lawyer in pocket and your time is less valuable than their money, filing in a friendly court with a plausible case can be worth five or six figures easy. The defense attorneys will cost more than that anyway.
For the next-level shit, go check out how the Westboro Baptist Church makes money. They effectively thrive on lawsuits by being as annoying as possible and then filing claims against anyone who takes a swing at them.
mogged? is that what mogged means? i thought it involved the butt.
Oddly enough it was originally a millennial slang term from the aughts
The fuck were we meaning back then?
It's a shortened version of AMOG (alpha male of group) from pickup artist communities, which unfortunately I think has filtered through to the youths of today via shitbag redpill influencers.
It certainly can
If it doesn't, I don't want to speak your dialect
To prove their point, included in the filing is an email from a person who spent $500 on top-tier tickets to a Demon Hunter concert in Albany, thinking they were purchasing admission to a KPop Demon Hunters event for their children, aged five and six. "Is their[sic] anyway to refund me or get me a credit or something[?]" the person wrote. "If I dont get it refunded I will not be able to purchase tickets to the actual ‘K pop demon hunters show’."
Okay first... That's ridiculous that this parent paid $500 for tickets for their kids.
Second, rough.
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They actually have a decent case here.
They've been a band with a trademarked name for 25 years. Netflix used that same name as part if the movie title. The band can show measurable harm to their trademarked brand, by citing Google search results for Demon Hunter.
I can't imagine Netflix would change the name of the movie, but paying the band for the damage to their trademark, and compensation for having to rebrand and trademark a new band name is a reasonable cost of success for Netflix.
In short, it isn't very Oniony
Sort of reminds me of when Apple moved into music, and Apple (music publisher) started dragging out documents that said they couldn't do that.
Money won that case, and will win this one. Netflix could just pay them to go away, but honestly this case in 2 days has probably got more people hearing about Demon Hunter (the band) than 25 years of touring ever did...
They’ve been a band with a trademarked name for 25 years.
They trademarked "Demon Hunters" in 2022....
Their case is shit, its frankly a miracle they were even able to trademark "Demon Hunters" because it's so generic. I see this going nowhere.
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The thing they have to fight though is that when you register for a trademark, it doesnt apply to every sector. Apple cannot for example and sue farm conglomerates for using the word apple on their actual apples. They do not hold the trademark in terms of produce.
For example, Nintendo lost a trademark to a supermarket in I think costa rica named "Super Mario" (it was a supermarket owned by a guy named mario), because Nintendo did not own the trademark rights to supermarkets(however they held one for food products branded it, so the same supermarket could not name their home branded products super mario)
Its a matter if the band holds the trademark for movies, as the band in the show itself is not called Demon Hunters (its Hunter/x)
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