Charlie the Unicorn creator: "MultiVersus is a game by Warner Bros, a company with an annual revenue of around 40 billion. Here they are using my work, without permission, to advertise their game."

Anyone got a non-Xitter mirror of the ad?

- I tend to be in the "fuck corporations" camp, but this doesn't really look like they're stealing his work. It looks nothing like the original Charlie the Unicorn. The original Charlie was gray, while this creature is white and rainbow. This is just a reference.
  As an analogy, Borderlands 2 has a sniper rifle names The Storm, and it has the red flavor text "tut tut, looks like rain", which is a quote from Winnie the Pooh. I personally wouldn't call that exploitation. You could try to make an argument, but it's so minor and indirect that any argument wouldn't hold any water
It's been taken down on xitter now
- Very interesting. Now I even more want to see what it was.

You dumb dumb, one doesn't simply become a 40BUSD company without exploitation of labour. There is no such thing as ethic billionaires, only parasites with good PR.

That's why they're a 40 billion dollar company instead of a 39.999999999 billion dollar company.

Wait are we talking "Ah they took my freakin' kidney!" Charlie the Unicorn?

The irony is, if Adult Swim didn't try to insist on their having 100% creative control over Charlie The Unicorn when it was pitched to Adult Swim, Charlie would BE in Multiversus.

I really hope the editor who okayed this was fired. It was probably some young well intentioned guy who was just a big fan of Charlie The Unicorn and thought it'd be neat to see them in the game, but had no understanding of how copyright works. I don't blame him, he was probably new and naive, but there should have been a supervisor or someone in legal to stop and ask "Wait, do we own that?"