Here's my hot take: I don't approve of what Mass Medical has done, but I just wouldn't buy his seeds, and for me it ends there. Taking and renaming cuts isn't cool but everything these days is hype marketing, it's really on the customer to sort it out treat it with caution, like EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY. Also, I seriously doubt the genetics are trash, I just saw a post the other day hyping up Moby Grape as the best of the new Pug stuff. I'm sure they aren't all winners but come on, there is probably a reason that Gromer wanted to breed with Putang, if it was shit he wouldn't have touched it.
In reality, I think the community has a lot of toxicity, which makes me appreciate the real ones that much more, and I don't sweat the posers. You can see it with the ever divisive Gromer IMO. Like, yeah the dude is grumpy, but people get SO butthurt about it on Insta, and then he gets people sending him death threats, so to be honest, I get why the guy is just sick of it, and why he is so antagonistic. The whole world of legal cannabis is full of dudes just trashing eachother (your glass is shit, your seeds are shit, your marketing is shit, your quartz insert is shit, your attitude is shit). I messaged Gromer once, and he was rude to me, so I said "lol my bad" and he instantly changed his tone and was kind. It's almost like you get what you give in this life... Thug pug dropped $80 packs of fire for years, you could've made a small fortune off him if you wanted to. Hate the game, not the player.
Even worse, this hater bullshit is constant on instagram, and it reminds me of rap beefs, where little growers try to get notoriety by trashing the competition (since, you know, you can't actually smell or smoke what they are slinging unless you pay for it, wait three months, and know what you're doing).
The worst one I saw recently was where a grower who I've followed and respect started trashing another grower just for using the same strain name and the same logo for his pack (it was Terp Bomb, and the logo was a little bomb with eyes from Mario, and let's be real, it was probably unintentional). It's such a generic name, and such a generic image, the whole idea that he'd be up in arms over it is crazy to me, and then he was posting pictures of the guy, calling him a pedophile because of how he looked, saying IT WAS MY STRAIN. Talk about an ego trip, oof... he deleted the post a day later because I'm sure he realized it was showing people who he really was. Hasn't said a word about it since. I saw his true colors though, and def won't support him anymore...
So many growers have put out so many generic genetics with names like CAKE POP or REESEZ or CINNA CRUNCH that it's asinine to me that anyone thinks they own anything more than delusion. I guess that's what happens when you're trying to sell people a $200 pack of seeds that is supposedly going to taste like something from The Cheesecake Factory. If it's certified fire and rappers are namedropping it then yeah, congrats, you created a strain, otherwise stay humble and more importantly stay in your lane lol.
Not trying to hate on anyone here, and I get where you guys are coming from, but come on, saying that people should jump him and break his fingers? That's not right.