Jun 22, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min · 10 segments
Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay were lucky enough to get an ARC of That One Time with the Lemon Drop by Alex LaBruyere. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 (non-con elements) A lot has…
So
let's first talk about the entire saga of a content creator attempting to trademark the phrase hot girls read.
Which, if you've been on the internet at all in the last decade or so, is a pretty ubiquitous phrase that is more than a little presumptuous to attempt to trademark.
Like,
what do you mean? The problem is that the trademarking offices or whatever, they're like, okay, fine.
Here you go.
You get the trademark.
They do have a period where they open it up for comments.
They do.
So there's a period where it's pending and you can file.
So I was looking into a lot of the trademarking stuff.
Because you don't want to get...
You don't want to use somebody's trademark, get it taken down, whatever.
Right.
So you can file a, like, protest to the trademark.
But the fact that, like, the trademarking offices, there's no...
There's nobody that does any kind of like.
There's like no due diligence.
Checking.
Yeah.
Anything at all.
So like despite the fact that you might think that somebody that's going like approve maybe is like I've heard that before from a lot of people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So
let's first talk about the entire saga of a content creator attempting to trademark the phrase hot girls read.
Which, if you've been on the internet at all in the last decade or so, is a pretty ubiquitous phrase that is more than a little presumptuous to attempt to trademark.
Like,
what do you mean? The problem is that the trademarking offices or whatever, they're like, okay, fine.
Here you go.
You get the trademark.
They do have a period where they open it up for comments.
They do.
So there's a period where it's pending and you can file.
So I was looking into a lot of the trademarking stuff.
Because you don't want to get...
You don't want to use somebody's trademark, get it taken down, whatever.
Right.
So you can file a, like, protest to the trademark.
But the fact that, like, the trademarking offices, there's no...
There's nobody that does any kind of like.
There's like no due diligence.
Checking.
Yeah.
Anything at all.
So like despite the fact that you might think that somebody that's going like approve maybe is like I've heard that before from a lot of people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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