Tag: digital ownership

This satirical two-part meme criticizes Sony's practices around digital media ownership. On the left, Crunchyroll-Hime, the official mascot of Sony-owned streaming service Crunchyroll, is drawn with a smug, gleeful, mocking expression, jumping while holding a media device and making a peace sign with one hand, paired with text mocking consumers that reads "RIP bozo! You don't own jack shit, you never will, and you will be happy!". On the right, a large crowd of crying, distressed Wojak meme characters representing consumers are shown, with the lead figure screaming in frustration, accompanied by text reading "NOOOO!!! OUR FILMS, OUR GAMES, OUR OWN PURCHASES! GIVE US BACK WHAT WE PAID FOR!!!". The meme references common consumer complaints that Sony delists and removes access to previously purchased digital games, films and anime content from its platforms, leading to permanent loss of content users paid for and harming long-term media preservation efforts.

Sony is the ultimate enemy of media preservation

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This is a two-panel edited meme using footage from the *Tom and Jerry* animated series. The top panel displays text printed on an open book page that reads "If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing", a logical argument responding to the common modern situation where paid digital game copies are not permanently owned by buyers, as they can be delisted, locked behind accounts, or revoked at any time by platforms or game developers. The bottom panel shows an extremely angry, overheated, red-faced Tom Cat with smoke rising from his head, labeled "Game developers", holding the same book and reacting with unbridled rage to the argument in the text. The meme mocks the perceived hypocrisy of game developers who refuse to give buyers permanent ownership of purchased games while also condemning piracy of those same games as theft.

Tis a Pirate's Life for Me

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This is a single-panel meme using a still from the 1990 Martin Scorsese crime film Goodfellas, featuring the famous scene where Ray Liotta's character Henry Hill laughs hysterically. Overlaid text at the top reads 'HOW SONY REACTS', while text at the bottom reads 'WHEN YOU THOUGHT BUYING A DIGITAL COPY MEANT THAT YOU OWNED IT'. The joke criticizes the digital media sales model, where consumers who pay for digital content only receive a revocable license to access the content rather than permanent ownership, meaning platforms like Sony can remove content from user libraries at any time.

How Sony reacts when you think you own a digital copy

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This is a single-panel reaction meme. The top of the image features text explaining the scenario: the poster feels smug whenever someone mocks physical media to praise digital "ownership", right before a company removes access to content users already paid for with no explanation. Below the text sits a popular 3D blue cartoon emoji with puffed cheeks, a hand held over its mouth, and a smug expression as it holds back gloating laughter. The joke relies on common consumer frustration with digital media platforms revoking access to purchased content, making the supposed "ownership" of digital goods meaningless, and validating people who prefer to own permanent physical copies of media. The text contains a minor typo, using "than" instead of the intended "then".

Smug Reaction When People Mock Physical Media Then Paid Digital Content Gets Purged

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A meme titled 'The Scariest Things on Earth' featuring a vertical list of traditionally feared items with corresponding icons: 'THE DARK' (black blob), 'CLOWNS' (Joker from DC Comics), 'SHARKS' (open shark mouth), 'SERIAL KILLERS' (Jason Voorhees mask), 'DEATH' (human skull). The final, humorously exaggerated entry is 'NOT OWNING THE GAMES YOU PURCHASED' in green, equating digital ownership frustration to other fears.

The Scariest Things on Earth (Gaming Twist)

A meme titled 'The Scariest T…