Explainer and introduction video, who is Pickleball ARTwear? (Rachael Chatoor, pickleball parody creator for PicKleTEL records)

 Here is a little last minute shot of the products before I closed my store. I still have the designs for all of these so they can enter the market place again when I decide I have the right ducks in a row. :)  (Or if someone wants to buy them) Also....more about everything here:  Pickleball ARTwear explainer site

Karen who hosts Pretty Pickleballers (women who love pickleball) asked me to do a live video intro for their small biz Saturday. I don’t know that I can do it live, between all my parody videos and the art, and the book… so I made this video for them and I’m sharing it here because it does explain all my madness! 🤭👍🏻😅❤️. Thanks for being here. Rachael Chatoor of Pickleball ARTwear #pickleball #pickletel #pickleballartwear

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As you may have been following I have had my own history with a  company. 
You see I recently noticed their new website and rebrand included my own older brand name: 

Pickleball Artwear.

Understand that back in 2020-21 when I started this art journey I googled the crap out of the words Pickleball Artwear and it was nowhere and it has been nowhere besides me since then except and  until these people showed up and began using it. 

I also wrote to them before posting publicly, and let them know they were using my brand name and that while I had just closed my own shopify store I was still using it and had published books and clothing with that brand name on it, and still was doing so.  

In a really small space such as pickleball and seeing as they had gone all the way through Nationals introducing their brand while not using my name but just their own, I thought they could easily pivot and change it back up, I mean it's a small pickleball world and clearly I've been using it, so why not? 

But no. My comments got deleted or ignored and eventually, the point just blatantly missed. 

Somehow my reply got turned into a reel on my own Instagram page and it turned out so perfectly with the image that it was attached itself to, I left it up. The power of the response was just stunning to me. 

How can anyone be unsure of the problem here? 

This is a small, small business. I am a small time artist, I've done nothing but support other small biz and women and try to make people smile and laugh with art and music. 

Even if they didn't know, once they did... they ghosted me and just kept going or said the above, that they don't see the problem. 



My thoughts are simple really and inspired my latest t-shirt design and meme. (you can get this image on a shirt, without the words)  See design here

People who are with me, I appreciate you, see you and I love you. 
The world starts to heal when we speak up about wrongs we see, rather than ignore them. 

I'll be happy to take every bit of my ugly opinion down as soon as they stop being facts (and/or using my name). 

Rachael