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Cease and Desist Letter 1
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The Cease and Desist controversy was an event of SML's history. It made the full transition to the Human puppet era, due to legal reasons from Nintendo.

Events

On February 11, 2021, the channel was renamed to "SML" due to Logan receiving a cease and desist letter from Nintendo, thus forcing Logan to rename all of his channels to remove any mention of the company's popular characters. The letter also forbade Logan to also use the plush versions, which also meant that Logan has to switch to the human puppets from now on, though the channel URL still contains the name "SuperMarioLogan." Due to the URL still containing the channel’s old name and trademark name from Nintendo, it is possible that the original SML channel, and along with all of the other SML-affiliated channels, including the old second channel, are going to be deleted sometime in the future by Logan at Nintendo’s request. All new videos that are not remakes are now being uploaded into the fourth channel. The Human Puppet videos on that channel, except "The Human Potion!" and "Jeffy’s New Dad!" because they still contain the plushes, will be reuploaded onto the fourth channel, while all of the other videos containing the plushes on the older channels, including this one, will be deleted, and at Logan’s choice, will be remade and uploaded onto the new channel. Favourites of yours should be downloaded to your computer/mobile device in your spare time or else they may be lost forever.

The channels were originally going to be deleted on June 1st and then on June 30th, but as of then, the channels were still up and there had been no word since then. This has caused most people to believe that Logan lied about the channels being deleted, and some believe that he even faked the cease and desist letter to push away from using the plushies and promote the human puppets further. A user by the name of KoopalingKitty Productions talked about the situation in a video, and she claimed that the cease and desist letter looks fake. Eventually, Logan finally did close the original SML channel on July 8th, most likely proving that the letter was real. Prior to this, there was much speculation as to whether or not the letter was real, or a fake sent by one of Logan's haters.

After the cease-and-desist, multiple characters had to be renamed because they still resembled their Nintendo counterparts too much:

In addition, the Blue M&Ms Officer became a human puppet, possibly as a preemptive measure in case Mars sends a C&D, as well. The fate of other IP-based characters such as Shrek and Woody is currently unknown.

Trivia

  • This is the main reason why Logan has to use the human puppets.
  • Logan has made a few texts about that he was not going to use the plushies anymore, and he is making new thumbnails for the third channel.
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