It’s common knowledge that facsimiles of well known brands can be found being sold in various parts of the world; they can be found in the corners of almost any major city. In Asia, brand replicas can be found in Bangkok’s Khao San Street, Seoul’s Itaewon, Ho Chi Minh’s Ben Thanh Market. Shanghai has multiple locations.
Even celebrities can be copied. For example China’s AKB48 clone ‘AK98‘ and Japan’s ‘Bikyakujidai‘, a copy of the Korean group Girl’s Generation. Still, counterfeit goods themselves are now relatively difficult to come by in Japan, which might explain why a recent thread on Hamusoku became popular with netizens, capturing their reactions to some knock-offs of well-known brands.
From Hamusoku:
Chinese Knock-Off Goods Are The Greatessstttttt!!
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Number 2 is so bad, Steve Jobs must be crying in the afterlife. ww
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Skill Level: Copymaster
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As opposed to me coming here to laugh, the laughs came to me www
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I lost it at Jobs wwwww
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His face grosses me out.
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For a moment, I didn’t understand what was off about #3…
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Korea also enters the fray wwwww
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Obama!?
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#6 Obama Fried Chicken…?
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I laughed so hard at Obama Fried Chicken that snot shot out my nose…
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It may be true that brand name products yield high profit so some knock-offs can really be deceiving but no one would be fooled by #6 www
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That looks way too much like Heineken wwwwww For a moment I had no idea it was a fake wwwwww
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Johnny Worker www
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Ahh! ‘Tuna’ is hilarious
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I actually kinda want the Tuna shirt.
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#13 is alright in my book www
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What do I do? I want the Tuna one
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#15 Woah, a mountain of knock-offs.
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Yeah, but how is the quality?
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Dolce & Banana got me! wwwwww
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DoruBana instead of DoruGaba. w What do Chinese people themselves think about this?
[Note: Japanese often shorten long names or phrases to about 4 syllables. ‘Dolce & Gabbana’]
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What do you do with a knock-off system? Do you play copied games with it?
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Can’t they use those abilities to make something else?
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On the other hand, if you’re copied by China is gives the impression that you’ve truly arrived.
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More than half of these are gag gifts, right? w
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If they can make knock-offs of this caliber can’t they maybe they’re own quality products? wwww
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They have things like Chinese Kenpo, Drunken Boxing and Cheongsam, why are those going out of style…
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Chinese knock-offs aren’t even complete knock-offs, so I’d just throw them away.
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[Note: The system’s name translates approximately to ‘Power Pole’]
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The Power Pole has awesome powers of destruction
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Power Pole wwww I’ll let this one slide because of the name wwww
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This has got to be a joke. They are only trying to get laughs, right?
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This isn’t a ‘gag gift’. This is the quality of goods sold in China.
