hey what's up guys in today's video i
wanted to talk about
joe biden t-shirts because i did a video
not too long ago talking about how we're
making some pretty easy sales uh playing
the same you know obvious political
niche and playing it both ways however
i've noticed an uptick in
community members
talking about getting biden shirts
removed now i don't want to tell you
specifically to remove
any shirts right now but i want to put
some um feedback that i've seen on your
radar assuming you may be selling some
joe biden related shirts and really um i
don't even know how to call like we just
call it the political niche uh this is
kind of uncharted territory with what uh
amazon's been doing lately so that's
what we're gonna talk about in this
video let's get started
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all right so as mentioned before uh it
wasn't that long ago i did a video
talking about how we can make
print-on-demand sales selling t-shirts
and whatever else
related to
um basically i mean i i say joe biden
but what is it really it's really just
whatever the tv is talking about all
right i don't watch a lot of tv but i
can kind of guess what the mainstream
news has been uh covering recently by
just doing niche research
on amazon like i don't even need to go
to the source i can just see what
t-shirts are selling and make a pretty
educated guess because like we always
say like out of sight out of mind you
know what is the tv not talking about i
think that's a lot more relevant than
what the tv talks about half the well
more than half the time almost
exclusively anyways the purpose of me
saying that is that when the tv talks
about something and the people that the
talking heads read their script
that's what people are thinking about
and what people are thinking about is
like step one to generating sales so a
lot of us were selling
politics joe biden what do i call it
anymore i don't even know we're selling
joe biden shirts and
a lot of them were removed lately so
first thing i thought of was is it
trademarked you know why are they
getting removed all right and i know
when i say a lot it's um
it's subjective right it's relative like
we don't what does a lot really mean you
know because there's not some graveyard
that we can just go to and see all of
the shirts that were removed and kind of
figure out why all right and i'm going
to show you some of what the community
members were saying about their removals
but first i think you know was was it
trademarked did we miss something is
there a word that's being included in
the ones that get removed
that is trademarked so i looked at uh
fjb in this case because i had somebody
message me directly saying that they had
multiple fjb
shirts removed
and when i look at the uspto website i
see three
fjb's with the live dead indicator and
two of the three
have a registered number so let's check
out those two records the first one
says that it is protected on the
following goods and services fjb
balloons sail boards trampolines archery
bows badminton rackets billiard tables
a lot of
fun activities but nothing related to
the clothing t-shirts sweatshirts etc
okay so we're good to go there
the next fjb
protected on entertainment namely live
music and concerts performed by musical
artist or musical group
and a website on a global computer
network okay good so
we're good to go here nothing related to
shirts clothing
um even by like some fringe broad
description no we're good okay so it's
not that
so then what the heck is going on now
we're just left to guess and again the
big part of me making this video is to
like just kind of inform you that uh
we've seen this before and actually i'll
wrap the video with talking about that
but let's look at what some people had
to say
and i blurred out their names but so
this was the person that sent me this
screenshot that had multiple removed
and they had uploaded to merch by amazon
um multiple shirts that were in that fjb
niche that was crushing you know it was
like an overnight success came out of
nowhere um and was the best-selling
shirt for a while
and you can see their title was fjb
pro-america ford joe biden fjb
okay now fjb we know that
i'm pretty sure f in fjb was for um it
was meant to represent the word for
f-o-r right
for joe biden pro-biden right we're
selling it to biden supporters
um
look at why they were removed it says we
are contacting you because your
submission appears to violate our
content policy and then they cite the
content policy part that says content
using profanity
to attack a group or individual
so they're saying that there was some
profanity included in the listing
however they confirmed that they didn't
have any profanity in the listing
so
what do we do here right
because there's still fjb shirts on
merch by amazon and there's still new
ones getting through yet for some reason
some people are getting theirs removed
and not just one but multiple and we
know that is like
you gotta avoid the rejections you gotta
avoid this wasn't i guess a rejection
um was it your recent design submission
um
okay maybe it was a rejection so maybe
it never got live uh i always wonder
because if they start like doing
algorithmic sweeps of live shirts and
pulling them down too that's also one
that we really need to be aware of
um but anyways so i want to put that on
your radar there's a second one here
they said be careful with your auntie
biden shirts they seem to be souring to
them
mine was funny and not hateful like i
see a lot of them and i got this nasty
reject it was an original theme with the
word sh apostrophe t in it
they have since redlined that word and i
got this rejection after about a week of
them holding it under review
um so basically it's like
the takeaway here is it may be that it
was a biden shirt that in this case
actually did have profanity whereas the
previous ones that i just showed you did
not i mean i didn't show you the actual
shirt but he confirmed that they did not
whereas this one did have the word in it
uh although look at this one right so
this one says
the one that didn't have profanity cites
the rule content using profanity to
attack a group or individual that didn't
use profanity and then the one that did
use profanity links to content that
promotes incites or glorifies hatred
violence racial sexual or religious
intolerance
or promote organizations with such views
so and the person that posts this by the
way is very active in the merch by
amazon group um i trust them when they
share um
feedback and whatnot they're very like i
said very active doing well with their
merch account so
they did this just as a public service
announcement and i wanted to kind of
pass that along to everybody on youtube
just be careful i don't know what's
going on i don't know what's changing
it's interesting that merch by amazon's
like algorithmic rejections are
mixing up the content policy violations
and not neces it doesn't seem like
they're pulling the right ones but
anyways um one last one
this person says i put an anti-biden
shirt and it's on manual review i regret
it and then someone posted in the
comments mine got rejected too it's my
best seller on t public and redbubble
guys i don't know what to tell you you
know it's a weird time to be alive right
now as we know because it wasn't that
long ago what was it less than a year
ago where
we were in the same boat we were doing
the same thing just swap out the word
biden for trump and we were making
hopefully everybody was making a lot of
sales catering to the pro-trump crowd
and the anti-trump crowd right
um but as we all remember i'm sure one
day out of the blue
pro-trump was no longer allowed right
you weren't allowed to think it you
weren't allowed to say it you weren't
allowed to sell it um we all had to kind
of go in there and uh if you had pretty
merch pro we had a little bit of an
easier time but we had to kind of bulk
delete all of our
trump shirts catering to one side but
not the other
and there was no like formal statement
or anything like that coming from the
merch by amazon team about you know only
one ideologies correct from here on out
but we all kind of took notice and we
want to protect our accounts at the end
of the day we're just trying to make
money selling t-shirts and we reacted
accordingly so i don't know if what
we're talking about right now with the
um
two sides of the biden thing if in the
future there's only gonna be one
um
one side of that that we're allowed to
cater to and sell to so just be mindful
at the end of the day protect your
accounts we're doing this because we
want to make money right uh so let's not
forget that let's not get too charged up
over the fake two-party paradigm sorry i
i can't help but call what it is um
anyways guys thank you for watching this
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