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    Senior Member Pod of Oceania Mermaid Jaffa's Avatar
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    Stolen videos to promote business

    Hey all!

    Happen to come across this during another one of my late night googling...

    If anyone knows the other merlings, please contact them to let them know this business has taken their images for their own. One mermaid I recognized is, Faith On the Bass from youtube.

    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Merm...0-1576c777a96e
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    Several of the tail photos and pictures of people swimming in them are from FinFun Mermaid Tails. I saw the Arctic Blue, Malibu Pink, Tidal Teal, etc in their photos, and the monofin is identical.
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    Hey guys! Thanks for letting me know!
    It was this video here that was taken, which makes sense as it is one of my most popular videos on instagram. Of course it was the one set of videos that I forgot to watermark! GAH!
    https://www.instagram.com/p/BPlg1mmg...faithonthebass
    I don;t know any of the other videos, although I think the orange mermaid tail (clip after mine) is from some other asian company I follow on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/putri_duyung_mermaidtail/
    I'm actually lowkey happy because theft indicates success! Anyways, I'll see if I can get it taken down. If not, no biggie.
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    I sent them a message and got a somewhat ambiguous reply.
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    I also found the original video for another one of the clips and alerted the owners of it. https://www.instagram.com/p/BOEgiwcg...ng_mermaidtail
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    some people do wholesale finfun online though, they offer it as a service (finfun) I even looked into doing it from Canada to help Canadians get them easier. Stealing the photos is bad obviously, but just pointing out it could still be a legit business who just handled it wrong.

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    Now they have fin fun images...they sure won't give up.

    BTW, if anyone sees anything like this happens again, PM me. I can hack 'em (I just overflow their servers), and make sure that people like them don't mess with merfolk ever again.
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    I didn't know that FinFun did that! Thaaaat explains all the awkward listings on ebay and all that. Although this particular one seemed to have a bunch of different tails from various other places on amazon and all that.
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    yeah its hard to know, but if someone is a re-seller they're allowed to use the images typically.

    for instance I sell linden's fins in canada. I have my own photos but sometimes use the ones from bodyglove too because they show the full specs.

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    Actually, the Fin Fun monofins are made by another Chinese company. I found them on alibaba whilst searching for something else.
    https://www.alibaba.com/product-deta...838.0.0.pvaVt0

    The one that has stolen images, their monofin is a white plastic sheet.

    Aliexpress is a hot pot of stolen images... If one had the time and know the people, you could literally shut down every one of them!
    Formerly known as ireneho

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    I private messaged Finfun about the picture theft. I'll let you guys know what they say when they reply.
    Hi! I'm Sam, aka Mermaid Tula, aka Comatose Angel.
    Hey everyone. I just opened my store on Facebook.
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    I don't think stealing any videos could be of any use to anyone. I would advise you to think about more important things for business. For example, this Coaching platform offers everything you need to make a profit in an economic downturn, such as data analysis tools to help you analyze your existing sales processes and identify where improvements can be made.

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