Who owns dftba

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Details of death: Died of complications of heart disease in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee at the age of DFTBA is one of those acronyms that has too many letters to just flat out guess what it means and have any chance of being somewhat accurate. DFTBA means:. Don't Forget To Be Awesome. It's not always possible to be awesome all the time, so it's worth motivating others to step up their awesomeness when they most need it. DFTBA is typically used as an open-ended, positive reminder to "do your thing" — whatever that may be.

The acronym itself isn't often stuffed in another sentence as a way to save space and type something out fast. Instead, people like to use it by putting it at the end of a post or comment as a nice way to wrap up and close what they're saying.

The catchphrase serves as the motto for their fanbase of "Nerdfighters," called "Nerdfighteria. The goal was to use it as a distribution network for rising YouTube stars and artists who were looking to reach more people and build up their fanbases. Since then, the record label has expanded to become a merchandise company for YouTubers looking to sell their own branded clothing, posters, mugs, calendars, wristbands and more. The company has helped dozens of YouTubers fund their work enough to be able to do it full-time.

Example 1. Example 2. This comment includes a common statement made to encourage someone going through a tough time. But Hank, I suspect the vast majority of nerdfighters will continue to make their own DFTBA stuff, or else buy from independent creators or buy it at dftba. Anyway, I wanna say one more thing about trademarks because it totally fascinates me. If you and a lot of other people use your trademark, and it becomes weakened, it can eventually become what's called generalized.

And that is every brand's nightmare. Like aspirin used to be trademarked by the company that distributed it, Bayer. And that meant that only Bayer could call their acetylsalicylic acid Aspirin, the way that only Advil can call their ibuprofen Advil.

But because the aspirin trademark weakened over time and everyone just started calling that drug aspirin, now anyone can call their "aspirin" aspirin. The same thing happened to escalators and thermos, and it almost happened to some brands we know pretty well today, including Nintendo, which marketed the phrase "game console", so people wouldn't call all consoles Nintendos.

And to Google, which is why Google is always very careful to talk about searching even when the rest of us always talk about Googling. Hank, companies like Nintendo and Google are terrified of their trademarks becoming genericized because those trademarks define them. But our community is lucky enough to be defined not by its name or by its mottos, but by the values those words represent. And those values don't become less meaningful when they are shared, in fact, quite the contrary.

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