What keycaps do you buy in 2023? (BUDGET FRIENDLY) 

Pack all your keeps in bubble wrap and see you on the other side!! Don't sweat the schedule.

Wow, that products feature is noice. Thanks for trying it out

Hi Hipyo! Could you do a video modding and/or reviewing the onn. rgb gaming keyboard? I have the keyboard and it's my main. I would love to hear your opinion on it!

bubble sound spem, bad >:(

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same...

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Same here

If you're buying 2nd hand you're not supporting the creator anyway, if it's out of stock it makes no difference to the creator if you buy a genuine 2nd hand or a clone, they won't see the money. I agree that you shouldn't steal novelties, but you can't "own" a colour combo.

@@Nick-yy3uh agreed

Yes I just bought Olivia clones myself as I wanted the color scheme and nice thick ABS double shots. I'm not going to feel guilty because I don't want to wait for another GMK set with similar colors and qualities...

@@Nick-yy3uh agreed ×2

@@BrianMcKee Care to share which clones you got from where? Can be in DM.

I LOVE CONE (corn) LMAO

IT'S CORN!

IT HAS THE JUICE!

The first time it came up I literally thought it was an easter egg or something, slowed down the video playback to 0.25 only to find out it was just a mirrored text, def not cool.

probably a preset he used

Agreed 100%. I am not good at these effects by any means, but I think this would be easy to fix in After Effects or even Premiere

don't spend more than $42 on them.

Oh no, now you have to buy a new keyboard and switches to go with those keycaps

@@dakaringer exactly my thought process

How about DIFFERENT SETS and rotate them?!! 😱

@@dyscea r/wooooosh

Hah ❤

Plus they're beginning to discontinue their clone sets sooo

AKKOS are my go to at this point. No point in spending 100 + dollars on some damn keycaps lol

Glad you like em!

Same. I'm polish and the conversion from USD to PLN is also deadly. Not to mention availability and shipping

@@spacetrashfallingdown Just the shipping fees and taxes, we can get a new keyboard already🥲.

If only cloning companies commission the original artist. That would fix the whole debate. Would make life a much more happier place to live in but it doesn't always work that way sadly.

@@Lilyium the question is will designers even consider teaming up with cloners? I imagine that designers will be very unsupportive of the idea since it will not have the "luxury" or "privilege" of being a gmk set. And people will most likely react the same way. So what if it is an original design? It is from a cloner and it isn't GMK. I agree but it is very unlikely it will happen.

And akko only clones colorways. Why can't people understand that you can't own a colorway 😅

@@vectivuz1858 I'm really not knowledgeable on law but it seems like you can "own" colors. There's whole brouhaha with purple as used in chocolate bar packaging involving the likes of Cadbury and Mondelez. And I would imagine that you'd get in trouble for opening a coffee shop chain with dark green branding. It seems to depend on whether it can be argued that you're capitalizing on the influence of the existing brand and whether your brand can be confused for the existing one, which would affect their market. And that can definitely be said for keycap clones although they involve such small players that it's super unlikely that any legal action would ever be taken, which is how cloners continue to exist. But I don't put that much stock into law as basis for morality. A lot of people and companies have gotten away with a lot of evil things. Trump is still a free man. But I do think that these colorways have value and power. They weren't just picked at random. I think they can be considered art. It's certainly not an easy thing to do, making a visually-appealing, thematic, cohesive keycap colorway. Believe me, I've tried. There's design and intent behind it and I do think that that should be protected. And the colorway is the majority of the design appeal of a keycap set. Most of them use the same style of fonts and legending. It seems like people buy them mostly for those colors and not things like the novelties. Some sets don't even have novelties. Sets like Olivia, Nautilus, Night Runner, and the like have built up a strong reputation, appeal, and selling power in the community because of their cohesive, beautiful colorways. And it is this reputation, appeal, and selling power that the cloners exploit when they copy the colorways and even use the exact name of the set in their product listings.

​@@CaloysKeyboards To start off the examples you mentioned are with regard to "Trademarks" not "copyright" When it comes to artistic creations which I believe keycaps are, we apply copyright. This is best exemplified by your statement "capitalizing on the influence of an existing brand" That is true, many a trademark infringers motive is exactly this, make a logo/branding/mark similar to that of an existing reputable brand to create confusion or a false link between the infringers products and the reputable brand. As to the statement of a coffee shop with dark green branding, if it is just color then no. If it the proprietor made efforts to disassociate with Starbucks ( I assume that is the brand you are pertaining to) no trouble will come since it will not cause confusion. Now to the question of whether keycap designs the total combination of colorways, legends, etc. is considered "artistic" enough to warrant protection is something I cannot be sure of. To be clear, yes you are right. Not everything legal is moral neither is everything moral, legal in every country. The issue I have is that there are only so many color combinations out there that are aesthetically pleasing, there will come a point that everything has been thought of. As you said "they weren't picked at random". Plus the facts you stated regarding price, availability, different salaries in different countries with different standards of living.

Gmk keycaps are a rip-off. $100+ keycaps is way too much and you can better spend that money elsewhere. If you *really* like keyboards and it makes you happy then go for it but for an average person who just wants a good economical keyboard for working there is no reason

Last a long time? If you’re planning to use any set for a long time, it will shine, PBT/ABS regardless.

It's common knowledge that ABS will shine much faster than PBT.

I just bought some SA myself and I'm hoping it's the same thing for me. I don't normally game on PC and this is more for typing so I'm hoping they are a good fit for my current keeb and future build I'm buying.

Wait until you know about his career with NASA

A lot of akkos are clones. Akko carbon and akko laser to name 2.

@@corporealghoul Yeah for sure. But you cant really get mad at their more simple BOW/WOB sets they've been putting out lately.

Buy em and spray paint em

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Just curious, what is that company? What happened?

@@lemonpemonofficial1281 it's akko and some of their keycaps are clones

This is a great question! I'd be glad to go into depth on my experience shining keycaps more on Discord, feel free to join the Hipyo server and ping me and I can chat with you about this.

pay +100 dollars and wait months to buy bullshit abs because it's original, no thanks 😂