Xue Qiandai returned to the villa.
A delicious aroma wafted from the kitchen; Jian Yan was still preparing tomorrow's lovingly made bento boxes. "Dai Dai, would you like some?"
Xue Qiandai rubbed her stomach; she was actually a little hungry, but women have to be tough on themselves, otherwise how can they have a perfect figure? "No, I'm going back to my room. Goodnight, Jian."
Xue Qiandai took out her notebook and started posting on Weibo, Tianya, Douban, and Tieba.
She shared the entire creation process of the emoji, including the earliest hand-drawn illustrations and text, Jian Yan's AI design, the release date of "Life is Like Summer Flowers" and all of them, and compared them with Si Wen's design.
Unexpectedly, the post caused a huge uproar online.
Single-mindedly focused on making big money: These days, knockoffs are everywhere. When will we be able to give genuine creative design a pure and clean environment?
The richest woman in the universe: The counterfeit is so much more expensive than the real thing, and people still buy it. I've never seen anything like it.
This is quite a thought: Does anyone else think the knock-off looks better? Mainly because I don't like the coffee cup.
Four-dimensional mythical beast Pikachu: Don't get it? This emoji first appeared in Beijing's CBD, originally a T-shirt from a coffee shop, oh, Guangniang Coffee.
UP Sister: @Four-Dimensional Divine Beast Pikachu, please provide your address. I'm an office worker in the CBD, and I'm always sleepy, relying on coffee to keep me going.
Qiuqiu's Love Diary: Supporting original content, I'm preparing to place another order. Wow, I've discovered these T-shirts are addictive, I can't choose one, I want to buy one of each to rotate.
Starry Sky i: The awareness of intellectual property protection in China is too weak, and the support for original works is too small. Look at those e-commerce websites; plagiarism is rampant. It makes me want to immigrate.
Walking towards the light: @StarrySeai, move if you want, no one's stopping you. Faced with this situation, have you ever thought about what you've done for innovation and creativity?
Half an hour later, Siwen Design, using its official Weibo account, posted photos of their registered trademarks and reposted Xue Qiandai's post: "Who copied whom, you can see for yourselves."
Anti-counterfeiting Squad: @Consumer Association @Yuanzhouzi, what do you think? Who is the genuine product and who is the pirated one? Everyone has their own opinion.
Lola runs fast: I'll just move a stool and eat melon seeds.
Meowing Watermelon: Aren't you all sleeping? This is a recipe for sudden death!
Wangwang is a dog: The hardships of being an adult, the hardships of starting a business, the hardships of being poor. As a fellow designer, I speak for originality.
Opinions online are divided, but the overall tone is positive, with people offering encouragement and support to FarEasTone's design.
As for the two e-commerce stores, they mutually support each other's traffic. Among them, "Life Like Summer Flowers" sold several hundred T-shirts in one night because of its more affordable pricing, and many people bought seven different styles to collect.
Xue Qiandai checked the time; it was already past two o'clock. She should go to sleep, or she'd be in for a world of trouble tomorrow. She went to the bathroom and noticed Jian Yan's light was still on. She knocked on the door. "Come in."
Jian Yan was designing new autumn clothes. On the computer screen were hand-drawn designs, still in a minimalist style, but with some small details. Jian Yan, with dark circles under her eyes and yawning, explained, "If the new designs don't come out soon, the factory won't have enough time to make them, and our autumn harvest will be wasted again."
"Are they all women's clothes?" Xue Qiandai asked. She remembered that Huo Meiren had said he would keep a set of the new styles.
Jian Yan slapped her lips, "Yeah, I never thought about making men's clothing. You know it's easier to make money off women."
Impulsive consumption, emotional consumption, and sentimental consumption.
The copywriting also included phrases like, "I hope you read more books than you buy clothes," "There are many ways to praise a woman; we choose to sew with care, stitch by stitch," and "Changing your life is too difficult; it's better to change your clothes."
Actually, they hadn't been back from their visit to the animal wholesale market for long, and the two of them had been working non-stop, but they always felt that there wasn't enough time and there were too many things to do.
"Don't stay up too late. For this batch of autumn clothes, you design the women's styles and I'll design the men's styles. We're sure to make a name for ourselves."
"What did you do in the room? Our little shop suddenly got a lot more orders."
Jian Yan asked curiously. She was focused on design and hadn't been paying attention to online trends.
Xue Qiandai smiled, "Just make sure the manufacturer ships the goods on time. As for the plagiarism issue, I should get a final solution by tomorrow, barring any unforeseen circumstances. Goodnight."
The two girls went to sleep.
I went to work as usual the next day.
At noon, Jian Yan went out to deliver takeout and lunchboxes. Xue Qiandai waited at the coffee shop, and then Guo Fei arrived.
The conversation took place under the sycamore trees outside the coffee shop.
"How's your new autumn collection coming along? The autumn collections are all available in the malls now," Guo Fei said with a smile.
Unexpectedly, she started the conversation this way. Xue Qiandai truthfully replied, "The design is still in the design stage."
“Then you’d better hurry up,” Guo Fei said directly, getting straight to the point. “I accept all your conditions, except for one thing.”
The conditions are that Chaoku removes all emoji-themed T-shirts, apologizes to Xue Qiandai and Jian Yan, and makes it public online.
Xue Qiandai glanced at the top designer and asked, "Oh, what point do you disagree with?"
“A public apology online is not acceptable. I can give you a private apology right now. No matter what, plagiarism is wrong. But…” Guo Fei paused, then continued, “Ms. Xue, I won’t bring up the trademark issue, but think about it, how much plagiarism exists in our environment? Can you fight all the counterfeits? Not to mention the rampant knockoffs on e-commerce platforms, don’t you yourself go to wholesale markets to buy those knockoffs? You buy styles at very low prices, less than a hundred or a thousand yuan worth of the original, and then you create something new. From this perspective, aren’t you also making huge profits from knockoffs?”
Before Guo Fei could finish speaking, she took a step forward, looking directly into Xue Qiandai's eyes: "Take myself as an example. If you search online, you'll see how many designs are similar to Guo Fei's. If I had to expose every single one of them, I wouldn't be able to do anything else. But so what if others copy me? Guo Fei is still Guo Fei, the unique Guo Fei. Faced with counterfeits, the only thing we can do is run fast and lead the trend. Fashion's life is really short, fleeting. One or a few hit products don't mean much, but achieving 'always being imitated, never surpassed' is difficult. This is my blessing to you all, and also my own motivation."
Whether you like it or not, Guo Fei is Guo Fei.
She's right. It's too difficult to change such a situation on one's own.
Xue Qiandai took a deep breath, suppressing the resentment in her heart. "Sister Fei, I have received your opinion. For your sake, this matter will end here. However, this also reminds me that protecting our rights and fighting piracy are things we must do on our path of independent design. I will not allow others to pirate or copy my ideas. Believe me, although it will be difficult, I will do it and firmly walk down this path."
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