One thing I’ve noticed about these kinds of situations on the internet is people tend to over estimate their originality and/or how big they even are (usually not more than a blip) in the market
Had a friend do the custom clothes version of this with a cricuit and other machines to make anime clothes and they got harassed online by another team for “stealing” the idea of putting anime characters on skirts and stuff lol
I’m sure there’s a chance a Chinese manufacturer repurposed some design of at least one of these people but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were mostly just butting up against the reality that a lot of people convergently arrive at the same idea sometimes
One thing I’ve noticed about these kinds of situations on the internet is people tend to over estimate their originality and/or how big they even are (usually not more than a blip) in the market
Had a friend do the custom clothes version of this with a cricuit and other machines to make anime clothes and they got harassed online by another team for “stealing” the idea of putting anime characters on skirts and stuff lol
I’m sure there’s a chance a Chinese manufacturer repurposed some design of at least one of these people but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were mostly just butting up against the reality that a lot of people convergently arrive at the same idea sometimes