2019 Infringement Incident

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On October 25, 2019, during the middle of Shaddai K. Wright's middle school years, Juicy Melon's franchise, Tom Gibson, was infringed. The incident resulted in a video being made that deliberately mocked and stole the rights of the characters.

Content
The video included some strong language and mentions scenarios of innuendo. It also spilled out private information about the creator.

The animation includes the characters simply drawn as plain circles and rectangles and was animated like a storyboard would with the exception of some minor motion tweens. However, when Tom is sad at any point, a photoshopped image is used from the 2015 image used in Tom's infobox. The changes include two blue strokes coming down Tom's eyes to suggest crying and a poorly flipped mouth from happy to sad.

Video Details
The video starts with Tom's dad (wrongly colored black), screaming at Tom for sleeping in late and berates him because he'll be late for school. Tom then sadly apologizes whispering "Okay. I'm sorry, daddy." The scene cuts to a photoshopped school bus with the caption "f**king bus noises" as the bus starts skidding. Tom then arrives at school and slowly approaches Emily, here wrongly depicted as Wright's "short-lived" crush, and then yells out her name, but with the surname pronounced in a distasteful manner. Emily then sternly replies "What the f**k do you want, Tum Gibby???". Tom then whispers with a heart floating "I like you. Go. On. A date.  With ME." She then replies "NoooOOOOO, what the f**k???" Tom then turns red and starts screaming with distortion. A man then voices over "YouTube.com". Bryan Arencibia's character, SuperFireKitty, then appears on screen with a troll face photoshopped to him. Tom then unintelligibly screams at him. SuperFireKitty then gets offended for "threatening to sue him". He then remarks that he'll "snitch" to his parents about the offense, plus his obsession with Emily. Back at home, Tom's dad mentions Tom's name, then his creator's name. He then complains about what he did and "infinitely grounds" Tom and forces him to his room. Tom then runs off crying.

People Involved
The people involved included people from Wright's school, including his then-friend, Bryan Arencibia, who got involved with the animation.

Controlling Events
Wright then reported the case to his school. However, they saw nothing wrong and dismissed his claim. Wright then reports that they accused him for getting involved. Wright recalls the incident later on in 2020 and replies "That, THAT, was a friggin' lie. I made a little draft to Wikipedia four years ago, before I even knew Riviera (his middle school).  All they did was spam my page with nasty comments and filthy content.  So you tell me, how in the actual hell, did I get involved?" After Wright got tired of lame excuses for administration not taking action, it resulted in shouting from the administration and Wright and forcefully silenced him from making anymore claims. However, he demanded that the people responsible be sent in. This claim was accepted and everyone involved, except one from Missouri, discussed the issue.

Aftermath
The debate resulted in the video being taken down by the uploader himself, and also resulted in Arencibia's firing from Juicy Melon. The administration then suggested that the franchise be completely scrapped, which left Wright to go into a depressed state for almost a year. He then rejected the suggestion as he didn't want one "idiotic" situation to demolish the fate of his future. Since then, he has restarted "Tom Gibson" with fresh new details.

Because Arencibia got fired, he continues to constantly harass and make fun of the company. After a few weeks, it began to lose impact as Wright slowly began to ignore the taunting and abuse. Since then, all the characters' featured went from simple shapes, to fully designed and complicated works. The characters and the franchise is currently being registered at the copyright office. Wright then decided to make a video titled "Evolution of My Character" explaining the whole situation in a nutshell, however, the video only lasted one minute due to time restrictions from the distributor, Dani-Mation. He plans to re-explain the events in an episode for an untitled upcoming slice-of-life series.