For a number of months now, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been posting ghoulish social media movies celebrating the company’s ramped-up immigration raid efforts. For its newest propaganda, ICE is interesting to a youthful viewers by setting a video of arrests to the Pokémon anime theme tune.
Not solely was the clip posted to the Division of Homeland Safety’s (DHS) X/Twitter, but it surely was additionally uploaded to the official White Home TikTok account. Captioned “Gotta Catch ‘Em All,” the video goes far past utilizing the Pokémon theme as a soundtrack.
Along with splicing in pictures from the anime of Ash Ketchum throwing a Poké Ball, there are customized Pokémon playing cards that includes photographs of people who had been arrested by ICE, together with their alleged crimes, proven on the finish. As of writing, the video has racked up effectively over 30 million views on X/Twitter, with one other 3.8 million on TikTok.
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Given the brazen use of Pokémon mental property, followers are calling upon Nintendo — which owns one-third of the franchise’s copyright and trademark by way of The Pokémon Firm — to sue the US authorities for utilizing the theme tune.
This might not be the primary time DHS and the Trump administration have landed in sizzling water for utilizing unlicensed IP. In August, an ICE propaganda video was hit with a copyright takedown for utilizing JAY-Z’s 2003 tune “Public Service Announcement.”
On the time of writing, Nintendo and The Pokémon Firm have but to touch upon the White Home utilizing the Pokémon anime theme tune to advertise ICE arrests.