I was wondering if you’ve though of a counter attack through dilution? Seriously. Print t-shirts and sell them. Embrace it to the point where you take the power away from those who would use it against you. I’d buy that t-shirt and I’m not even in to boobies. You need to register that image as your trademark. Then get as many of the “we don’t get paid until you get paid” lawyers hounding the porn companies that use it in ads. This video was a great step in owning it, but I would say OWN it. Own it in big, sky writing letters. Every time someone posts it in a comment, post your own immediately after as a link to your t-shirt sales site.
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What about copyright on the original Cthulhu shirt?
I don’t know, IANAL. Could it fall under parody? Blur it out enough to avoid infringement? Partner with the t-shirt company that made it? Waaiiittt a minute… YES! @Veronica, have you thought about partnering with that t-shirt company to make your t-shirts? Imagine how many of the original Cthulhu shirts they could sell! LOL If they aren’t into it I’d just make a shirt of a still of that GIF, but photoshop the Cthulhu shirt to be the GIF still, on down until it was unreadable.
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Haha! Hadn’t thought of that. I do know the guys who made the shirt (J!NX), but not sure how their feelings on that would be 
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That’s what I plan to do with this video! Also, I’ve played some fun games with SEO in the past: http://www.buzzfeed.com/veronicabelmont/veronica-belmont-cleavage-1n4
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I do not understand the meme. I’m not even sure what she was referring to as lifelike.
She looks like she had a good sense of humor. I hope the meme experience didn’t force her to stop horsing around.
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I agree. You go first!
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^ My point exactly.
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She jiggled to make it look like the Cthulhu on the t-shirt was moving. I think she was being ironic when she said “it’s so lifelike”. The meme itself doesn’t really have a meaning to the original subject.
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With or without the meme, articles and talks are going to help perpetuate it. But maybe she feels it can’t get worse so doesn’t care.
To paraphrase: whatever you post on the internet will never die. So here’s a recent, though in no way similar, comparison.
An old classmate and FB friend was watching Jeopardy on 13 November when it was interrupted by news reports of the atrocities in Paris. She promptly posted her outrage that her favorite show was preempted by the news coverage.
I’m just guessing (hoping) she regrets having made that post now. And I expect it may haunt her for a while.
Veronica Ann Belmont - Destroyer of Trolls.
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Perfect
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Why, after all, non-news channels do this? Wouldn’t a scrolling ticker at the very bottom of the screen be sufficient? Shouldn’t we have the right to not be force-fed news from several timezones away when we don’t want them?
Likewise, I have never heard of it before today.
Weird. I’ve known of you for years but the TV shows you were on were at a time when I did not have cable. I only know you from various Geek and Sundry-esque things.
Saw you at the Vaginal fantasy talk at DragonCon in 2012.
Anyway, all that to say that you’re much cooler than a silly gif. I know you already know that. Just sayin’… 
I think it was P.T. Barnum who said there’s no bad publicity.
In today’s world oversaturated with stimuli from all sides, becoming hyper-visible even for a short while is a great asset. Many advertisers try becoming viral, and vast majority of them fail miserably.
If you get such successful, reach this holy grail of PR, even if accidentally, can you leverage it, profit from it? Could be a good theme for a coffee, cake, and brainstorming session with some media and public relations students from a nearby university…
A success in monetizing the meme will in addition make your supporters happier and your detractors angrier, a double-positive rider on the outcome.
It seems like an asset because people tend to be egotistical, so they assume that they are more of a person if people know about them. The problem is that people waste most of their brain power on models which guestimate:
- What do they think of me?
- What do I think of them?
- What do they think I think of them?
- Ad Infinitum
Playing into this process makes it only more difficult for people to have real-world goals and apply themselves.
Not really, because the notion of “personal gain” is predicated upon social interactions not being based upon reason.
Two sets of emotional problems for the price of one could be seen as merely compounding the failure.
She was foolish to allow herself to be photographed like that and paid dearly.
I can’t fault the employer. As they stated, they have a zero tolerance for quite a few things; none of which were unreasonable to ask to refrain from.
