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I tried the other day to go to the original site for the guys running the "Fake Mask" online store (used to be www.fakemask.com). Couldn't get through on Firefox. Couldn't get through on Chrome. Finally googled them, and found an article (on a Law Enforcement website) that discusses their success and how they had finally found a cancel-proof home on TikTok:
“We’re done with cancel culture, but now that we’ve found a way that people cannot cancel, and we’ve been able to do this extremely profitably, we’re winning. Finally.
“So we’ve been fighting this battle against being cancelled for months and months and months, and we just got a stronghold.”
Not so fast, fellas--the cancel-culture is ev.......vry..........where.............
So--posting thread to see if one of you expert news-hounds can FIND them ANYWHERE on the web, or (if you ordered from them) if you might have some other means of contact.
www.lawenforcementtoday.com
Screenshots: TikTok
In spite of death threats, veteran-owned ‘fake mask’ company takes on cancel culture, wins big
Posted by: Lizzy Murica|April 9, 2021 |Categories Featured, Law and Legal, News
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OHIO – While offering a mask for Americans looking for a breathable alternative to mainstream face masks, an Ohio company is also taking on cancel culture – and winning.
At Fake Mask USA, shoppers can find two versions of earloop face masks, The Incognito Fake Mask, and The Offensively Fake Mask.
The Incognito version features dark mesh fabric to cover the nose and mouth. The description reads:
“Guess what? Cloth masks don’t do anything. Neither does this masterpiece. But at least you can breathe now.
“The Fake Face Mask is the most breathable, comfortable face covering on the market! This version provides incredible breathability while still giving the illusion that it is a real mask.
“Great for ultra Karen environments such as airplanes, banks, PTA meetings, etc.”
The Offensively Fake version features lighter, nearly invisible mesh covering the nose and mouth. Its description reads:
“This masterpiece is 99.99% breathable and 100% guaranteed to piss people off!
“The Offensively Fake Face Mask takes breathability to a whole new level – it’s almost like there’s nothing there at all!
A gaiter version is also available, and in addition, the company offers other items such as T-shirts and window clings.
The website indicates that the purpose of the masks is to take on oppressive governmental policies and allow freedom for the wearer.
In its “About Us” section, the site explains:
“Your mayor is not your king. Your governor is not your king. If you were the subject to a king, you would smite him as our forefathers did 200 some years ago.
“The Fake Face Mask is the sword of the oppressed.
“Free yourself from suffocation and reclaim your oxygen.”
The page continues:
“But really, we’re just a few dudes from Ohio on a mission to destroy cancel culture and help people breathe better.”
We at Law Enforcement Today were able to land an exclusive interview with one of those “dudes from Ohio,” a co-founder of the company.
Due to death threats, this entrepreneur prefers to keep his name out of the spotlight.
The company owner told us that the founders of Fake Mask USA are Marine Corps veterans who achieved extensive, successful entrepreneurial experience with Internet business ventures during the last six years.
He added:
“We knew a thing or two about making Internet listings and websites, and so we tried selling [the masks], and next thing you know, we couldn’t make them fast enough.”
They were able to find a good manufacturer fairly easily, as companies had been quickly set up to make cloth masks in the face of an N95 shortage and high demand for alternative facewear.
Our source continued:
“We took one of those companies that had already been set up to manufacture masks and we said, we need you to make one slightly obnoxious change.
“The next day we had a thousand of them already, because the guy was just ready, he was already set up to pump something like this out.”
And “pumping out” was necessary, as sales quickly skyrocketed. The company was set up in December of 2020, and by March 5, they reported sales of 75,000 masks.
By March 17, they had sold over 100,000, and as of now, they have sold approximately 115,000 masks.
As the owners indicated on their “About Us” page, quoted above, they are about more than facial freedom. They are taking a stand against cancel culture as well.
The co-owner explained:
“We ourselves have been cancelled countless times. We can’t advertise our brand on billboards, we can’t advertise it on television ads.”
In addition, Paypal refuses to do business with them.
Also, two website hosting platforms have shut them down “because they did not agree with [their] product,” and Facebook has shut down three different pages for the same reason.
Refusing to be silenced, the owners have implemented successful ways to get around cancellation.
Our source noted:
“We’re done with cancel culture, but now that we’ve found a way that people cannot cancel, and we’ve been able to do this extremely profitably, we’re winning. Finally.
“So we’ve been fighting this battle against being cancelled for months and months and months, and we just got a stronghold.”
They moved their social media presence to TikTok “because it’s less regulated,” and created humorous, tongue-in-cheek videos about their product. TikTok is reporting nearly six million views of their videos.
They also implemented widespread advertising via airplane banners, since billboards and television were off-limits.
Their first foray into airplane advertising was in the city of Columbus in March. The company hired five airplanes to fly over the city with banners that displayed their website link in addition to phrases such as:
“Your governor is a trashball,”
“Cancel Deez Nutz,” and
“Your mayor is a trashball.”
Our source told us:
“We’re flying all these airplanes around, and even with no event, and no context as to why they were flying at all, it was just a massive success.”
After receiving praise and requests from Cleveland residents for the airplane banners, the next stop for the airplane advertising was Cleveland, during the Cleveland Indians’ season opener on April 5.
The Cleveland Indians are continuing to distance themselves from, or in other words, cancel, “American Indian” symbolism and the Chief Wahoo logo. The team recently announced a ban on fan dress that includes “headdresses and face paint styled in a way that references or appropriates American Indian cultures and traditions.”
The co-founder told us:
“[T]he people of Cleveland reached out to us and were just like, we saw what you did in Columbus, that was really funny, can you cook something up, like maybe can you cook up some Chief Wahoo stuff for us?”
And cook it up, they did, with banners again saying “cancel Deez Nutz” and calling the governor a trashball, as well as “Chief Wahoo did your mom.”
The co-owner notes that after sifting through Facebook and Twitter responses to the banners, “there was a lot of chatter about it, which is how we know it was working.”
He added:
“Really what makes the sale at the end of the day is documenting the publicity stuff that we do to get around the cancel culture and then posting it to some sort of social media like TikTok, and if it’s an entertaining enough video, and people support our message enough, they will find out who we are and go to the website to make a purchase.
“So they want to see planes flying over their city.”
The popularity of Fake Mask USA and its messaging is not only evident in the social media feedback and the massive sales, but also in customers’ willingness to do a little extra to support the venture.
The co-owner told us:
“We’ve been entrepreneurs for six years, but this company has been alive for 4-5 months.
“I have never seen the kind of love from the customers for Fake Mask USA, like this, ever before. It’s unbelievable, the amount of support that we have.”
He added:
“So there’s an option on the back end of our website where you can buy us a beer. They’re speaking with their money.
“They’re buying us $50 worth of beer a day, it’s like we don’t even know what to do with all the beers, because we do actually go buy beers from local breweries with it, and it’s just getting to the point where we don’t even know what to do with all the beer that the customers buy.”
He went on to say:
“So those are customers speaking with their money, but we also got an influx of love emails. They’ll hit the contact us form, just saying I love what you’re doing and I want to support you somehow, what’s the best way?”
The co-owner continued:
“Or, holy cow, you guys, I am forced to wear a mask at my job, and I work outside in the Metro parks, and I have to wear a mask all day outside, but I don’t know how I could do it if I didn’t have a breathable mask.”
Our entrepreneur source projects that “we are on track to probably do $3 to 4 million in revenue by the end of 2021.”
Not all the response has been favorable, as one might expect.
Our source noted:
“It has been extremely polarizing….
“I do have to do things like keep my name off of publications because of death threats….
“Just the most heinous things you could ever imagine come out of some people’s mouths.”
One commenter emailed:
“Hey pieces of sh*t I will make sure you a**holes are dead. I hope if any of you have children, that you all get covid and f***ing rot in hell.
“And then I hope your dead daughters f***ing body gets raped in front of you as you gasp for air. F***ing pieces of sh*t.”
Another wrote:
“I truly pray someone takes all you f***ers out.”
Another said:
“You’re truly a c***sucking scum f*** and I hope you get covid and infect your erlderly (sic) parents and they die and then you die.”
After sharing these threats to “cancel” his family members physically, the co-founder said:
“Like, geez, man, I get it, you don’t like us, but, you want to promote murdering? Promote rape over it? You know what I mean?
“It’s just, which one of these is the lesser of two evils, right? The guy that’s making a mockery of it or the one that’s trying to murder entire families?”
Vicious attacks and threats have not slowed the company down, however.
Our source noted:
“I think one thing I can say for certain is that if you want to be a success, you can’t walk in the middle any more.”
As for the future, the company plans to roll with their momentum and continue facing cancel culture head-on.
The co-owner stated:
“Aside from the masks, like I said, we’re going to take the leverage that we have as a successful company that’s selling breathable masks, and we are going to turn all of those guns and aim them at the cancel culture pandemic.
“T-shirts that are against cancel culture, jewelry against cancel culture, bottle openers against cancel culture, it’s just never going to end. We need to be able to fuel the message.
“If we’re going to continue flying banners across the country, which we are absolutely going to do, we’ve taken over Columbus, we’ve taken over Cleveland…”
He added:
“As long as we have the support of the American people, we are going to keep doubling down and you won’t be able to look outside without one of our planes flying overhead.”
Fake Mask USA’s co-founder has the following message for the American people:
“If you are fed up with cancel culture, and you support me and my American company, we will continue. We will wage a war on cancel culture like the American people have never seen.”
—
“We’re done with cancel culture, but now that we’ve found a way that people cannot cancel, and we’ve been able to do this extremely profitably, we’re winning. Finally.
“So we’ve been fighting this battle against being cancelled for months and months and months, and we just got a stronghold.”
Not so fast, fellas--the cancel-culture is ev.......vry..........where.............
So--posting thread to see if one of you expert news-hounds can FIND them ANYWHERE on the web, or (if you ordered from them) if you might have some other means of contact.
In spite of death threats, veteran-owned 'fake mask' company takes on cancel culture, wins big
While offering a face-freeing breathable mask for Americans, an Ohio company is also taking on cancel culture - and winning.
www.lawenforcementtoday.com
Screenshots: TikTok
In spite of death threats, veteran-owned ‘fake mask’ company takes on cancel culture, wins big
Posted by: Lizzy Murica|April 9, 2021 |Categories Featured, Law and Legal, News
Share:
OHIO – While offering a mask for Americans looking for a breathable alternative to mainstream face masks, an Ohio company is also taking on cancel culture – and winning.
At Fake Mask USA, shoppers can find two versions of earloop face masks, The Incognito Fake Mask, and The Offensively Fake Mask.
The Incognito version features dark mesh fabric to cover the nose and mouth. The description reads:
“Guess what? Cloth masks don’t do anything. Neither does this masterpiece. But at least you can breathe now.
“The Fake Face Mask is the most breathable, comfortable face covering on the market! This version provides incredible breathability while still giving the illusion that it is a real mask.
“Great for ultra Karen environments such as airplanes, banks, PTA meetings, etc.”
The Offensively Fake version features lighter, nearly invisible mesh covering the nose and mouth. Its description reads:
“This masterpiece is 99.99% breathable and 100% guaranteed to piss people off!
“The Offensively Fake Face Mask takes breathability to a whole new level – it’s almost like there’s nothing there at all!
A gaiter version is also available, and in addition, the company offers other items such as T-shirts and window clings.
Please help out the good people at #FakeMaskUSA. It’s the only mask I’ve ever worn to go into a store. Their claim: “it’s just as worthless as any other mask for a virus- but it gets you in stores) – as you can imagine, the Ohio-based company is cancelled left and right. Help- pic.twitter.com/Ux5jeZwlV8
— (@LynnFynn3) March 27, 2021
The website indicates that the purpose of the masks is to take on oppressive governmental policies and allow freedom for the wearer.
In its “About Us” section, the site explains:
“Your mayor is not your king. Your governor is not your king. If you were the subject to a king, you would smite him as our forefathers did 200 some years ago.
“The Fake Face Mask is the sword of the oppressed.
“Free yourself from suffocation and reclaim your oxygen.”
The page continues:
“But really, we’re just a few dudes from Ohio on a mission to destroy cancel culture and help people breathe better.”
We at Law Enforcement Today were able to land an exclusive interview with one of those “dudes from Ohio,” a co-founder of the company.
Due to death threats, this entrepreneur prefers to keep his name out of the spotlight.
The company owner told us that the founders of Fake Mask USA are Marine Corps veterans who achieved extensive, successful entrepreneurial experience with Internet business ventures during the last six years.
He added:
“We knew a thing or two about making Internet listings and websites, and so we tried selling [the masks], and next thing you know, we couldn’t make them fast enough.”
They were able to find a good manufacturer fairly easily, as companies had been quickly set up to make cloth masks in the face of an N95 shortage and high demand for alternative facewear.
Our source continued:
“We took one of those companies that had already been set up to manufacture masks and we said, we need you to make one slightly obnoxious change.
“The next day we had a thousand of them already, because the guy was just ready, he was already set up to pump something like this out.”
And “pumping out” was necessary, as sales quickly skyrocketed. The company was set up in December of 2020, and by March 5, they reported sales of 75,000 masks.
By March 17, they had sold over 100,000, and as of now, they have sold approximately 115,000 masks.
As the owners indicated on their “About Us” page, quoted above, they are about more than facial freedom. They are taking a stand against cancel culture as well.
The co-owner explained:
“We ourselves have been cancelled countless times. We can’t advertise our brand on billboards, we can’t advertise it on television ads.”
In addition, Paypal refuses to do business with them.
Also, two website hosting platforms have shut them down “because they did not agree with [their] product,” and Facebook has shut down three different pages for the same reason.
Refusing to be silenced, the owners have implemented successful ways to get around cancellation.
Our source noted:
“We’re done with cancel culture, but now that we’ve found a way that people cannot cancel, and we’ve been able to do this extremely profitably, we’re winning. Finally.
“So we’ve been fighting this battle against being cancelled for months and months and months, and we just got a stronghold.”
They moved their social media presence to TikTok “because it’s less regulated,” and created humorous, tongue-in-cheek videos about their product. TikTok is reporting nearly six million views of their videos.
They also implemented widespread advertising via airplane banners, since billboards and television were off-limits.
Their first foray into airplane advertising was in the city of Columbus in March. The company hired five airplanes to fly over the city with banners that displayed their website link in addition to phrases such as:
“Your governor is a trashball,”
“Cancel Deez Nutz,” and
“Your mayor is a trashball.”
Our source told us:
“We’re flying all these airplanes around, and even with no event, and no context as to why they were flying at all, it was just a massive success.”
After receiving praise and requests from Cleveland residents for the airplane banners, the next stop for the airplane advertising was Cleveland, during the Cleveland Indians’ season opener on April 5.
The Cleveland Indians are continuing to distance themselves from, or in other words, cancel, “American Indian” symbolism and the Chief Wahoo logo. The team recently announced a ban on fan dress that includes “headdresses and face paint styled in a way that references or appropriates American Indian cultures and traditions.”
The co-founder told us:
“[T]he people of Cleveland reached out to us and were just like, we saw what you did in Columbus, that was really funny, can you cook something up, like maybe can you cook up some Chief Wahoo stuff for us?”
And cook it up, they did, with banners again saying “cancel Deez Nutz” and calling the governor a trashball, as well as “Chief Wahoo did your mom.”
The co-owner notes that after sifting through Facebook and Twitter responses to the banners, “there was a lot of chatter about it, which is how we know it was working.”
He added:
“Really what makes the sale at the end of the day is documenting the publicity stuff that we do to get around the cancel culture and then posting it to some sort of social media like TikTok, and if it’s an entertaining enough video, and people support our message enough, they will find out who we are and go to the website to make a purchase.
“So they want to see planes flying over their city.”
The popularity of Fake Mask USA and its messaging is not only evident in the social media feedback and the massive sales, but also in customers’ willingness to do a little extra to support the venture.
The co-owner told us:
“We’ve been entrepreneurs for six years, but this company has been alive for 4-5 months.
“I have never seen the kind of love from the customers for Fake Mask USA, like this, ever before. It’s unbelievable, the amount of support that we have.”
He added:
“So there’s an option on the back end of our website where you can buy us a beer. They’re speaking with their money.
“They’re buying us $50 worth of beer a day, it’s like we don’t even know what to do with all the beers, because we do actually go buy beers from local breweries with it, and it’s just getting to the point where we don’t even know what to do with all the beer that the customers buy.”
He went on to say:
“So those are customers speaking with their money, but we also got an influx of love emails. They’ll hit the contact us form, just saying I love what you’re doing and I want to support you somehow, what’s the best way?”
The co-owner continued:
“Or, holy cow, you guys, I am forced to wear a mask at my job, and I work outside in the Metro parks, and I have to wear a mask all day outside, but I don’t know how I could do it if I didn’t have a breathable mask.”
Our entrepreneur source projects that “we are on track to probably do $3 to 4 million in revenue by the end of 2021.”
Not all the response has been favorable, as one might expect.
Our source noted:
“It has been extremely polarizing….
“I do have to do things like keep my name off of publications because of death threats….
“Just the most heinous things you could ever imagine come out of some people’s mouths.”
One commenter emailed:
“Hey pieces of sh*t I will make sure you a**holes are dead. I hope if any of you have children, that you all get covid and f***ing rot in hell.
“And then I hope your dead daughters f***ing body gets raped in front of you as you gasp for air. F***ing pieces of sh*t.”
Another wrote:
“I truly pray someone takes all you f***ers out.”
Another said:
“You’re truly a c***sucking scum f*** and I hope you get covid and infect your erlderly (sic) parents and they die and then you die.”
After sharing these threats to “cancel” his family members physically, the co-founder said:
“Like, geez, man, I get it, you don’t like us, but, you want to promote murdering? Promote rape over it? You know what I mean?
“It’s just, which one of these is the lesser of two evils, right? The guy that’s making a mockery of it or the one that’s trying to murder entire families?”
Vicious attacks and threats have not slowed the company down, however.
Our source noted:
“I think one thing I can say for certain is that if you want to be a success, you can’t walk in the middle any more.”
As for the future, the company plans to roll with their momentum and continue facing cancel culture head-on.
The co-owner stated:
“Aside from the masks, like I said, we’re going to take the leverage that we have as a successful company that’s selling breathable masks, and we are going to turn all of those guns and aim them at the cancel culture pandemic.
“T-shirts that are against cancel culture, jewelry against cancel culture, bottle openers against cancel culture, it’s just never going to end. We need to be able to fuel the message.
“If we’re going to continue flying banners across the country, which we are absolutely going to do, we’ve taken over Columbus, we’ve taken over Cleveland…”
He added:
“As long as we have the support of the American people, we are going to keep doubling down and you won’t be able to look outside without one of our planes flying overhead.”
Fake Mask USA’s co-founder has the following message for the American people:
“If you are fed up with cancel culture, and you support me and my American company, we will continue. We will wage a war on cancel culture like the American people have never seen.”
—
