I thought stuff like “Explain Like I’m Five” and “AMA” was proprietary to the community, or at least the Reddit community, not Reddit as a company.
I checked and I found at least those subreddit forum names were registered as trademarks.
- TODAY I LEARNED (TIL)
- SHOWERTHOUGHTS
- EXPLAIN LIKE I’M FIVE
- NOSLEEP
- AM I THE ASSHOLE?
- IAMA
- RPAN (actual subreddit name is R/PAN but they messed up the word mark for the registration I think.)
- ASK REDDIT (makes sense since this includes Reddit’s name.)
- NATURE IS FUCKING LIT (I thought you couldn’t register word marks with swearing but I guess I’m wrong. Must be only for offensive terms then…)
- ASK ME ANYTHING (yes somehow this “generic term” is a trademark now…")
- AMA
- ELI5
Also they have some trademark registration applications for WALLSTREETBETS that have not been finalized yet.
Damn… Reddit is even shittier than I thought.
AM I THE ASSHOLE?
Yes.
Did Spez trademark “im just a little shit pig” too?
Explain Like I’m Steve “Jailbait” Huffman
Imagine the balls it takes to take user-created forum names and register them as trademarks.
Imagine the balls
Small, arrogant pig’s balls
One more reason I’m done with Reddit.
Time to switch to Explain Me Like I’m Six then
…Isn’t… “Explain Like I’m Five” an Office reference first?
None of these would stand up to scrutiny in court.
This.
You can try to trademark a lot of things, doesn’t mean it will hold, especially if there have been prior uses (which there have been for just about all of them)
