Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Jools Lebron
At this point, you either already know about the “very demure, very mindful” meme that originated on TikTok, or you have neither the interest nor the capacity to understand. It is simply A Thing, a viral catchphrase that may become as ubiquitous in the 2020s as “eyebrows on fleek” was in the 2010s. And that is why every tabloid in America is running a story about a dispute over an application to register “Very Demure… Very Mindful…” as a trademark.
The headlines go like this:
Trademarks Are Very Demure, Very Mindful (TMZ)
TikToker Jools Lebron Sobs Over Trademark Filing in Deleted TikTok (also TMZ)
Who is Jefferson Bates and when did he trademark Jools Lebron’s very mindful very demure TikTok trend? (The Sun)
Newest internet villain?…
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