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In October 2025, Rossmann began uploading green-screen videos in the style of silhouette interviews, which are used by news broadcasts to keep an interviewee's identity anonymous, but can be used rhetorically outside of news broadcasts to visually represent an anonymous party; in this case, the anonymous party is the collection of editors for Consumer Rights Wiki and members of, or subscribers to, the FULU Foundation.<ref name="first Rossmann silhouette">{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y | title=Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH! | date=9 Oct 2025}}</ref> These videos consist of Rossmann depicted as a featureless silhouette, speaking about a specific company's malpractice, and occasionally holding up a large paperclip against the background, visually representing the vast number of "Clippy" users online.

On 9 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded his first silhouette video, an annunciatory reaction to recent decisions from the company Synology. The video, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH!]", begins by dedicating the announcement to restoring consumer rights and the rights of ownership. The core of the video refers to the company formerly [[Synology_requiring_proprietary-branded_drives_to_be_used_with_its_NAS|requiring users to use only Synology hard drives in their network-attached storage units], a policy enforced by DRM. Synology reversed their decision, but Rossmann points out that it is not enough to simply undo the action; the company has to indicate plainly to its customers that they will not engage in further anti-consumer practices in the future. The video ends with a call to action for members of the Clippy movement, declaring that the fight for consumer rights had moved into a new era, in which companies reverse the detrimental actions which had previously characterized their policies toward their own customers:

On 9 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded his first silhouette video, an annunciatory reaction to recent decisions from the company Synology. The video, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH!]", begins by dedicating the announcement to restoring consumer rights and the rights of ownership. The core of the video refers to the company formerly [[Synology_requiring_proprietary-branded_drives_to_be_used_with_its_NAS|requiring users to use only Synology hard drives in their network-attached storage units]], a policy enforced by DRM. Synology reversed their decision, but Rossmann points out that it is not enough to simply undo the action; the company has to indicate plainly to its customers that they will not engage in further anti-consumer practices in the future. The video ends with a call to action for members of the Clippy movement, declaring that the fight for consumer rights had moved into a new era, in which companies reverse the detrimental actions which had previously characterized their policies toward their own customers:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y&t=163s Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH! 2:43]

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 In October 2025, Rossmann began uploading green-screen videos in the style of silhouette interviews, which are used by news broadcasts to keep an interviewee's identity anonymous, but can be used rhetorically outside of news broadcasts to visually represent an anonymous party; in this case, the anonymous party is the collection of editors for Consumer Rights Wiki and members of, or subscribers to, the FULU Foundation.<ref name="first Rossmann silhouette">{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y | title=Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH! | date=9 Oct 2025}}</ref> These videos consist of Rossmann depicted as a featureless silhouette, speaking about a specific company's malpractice, and occasionally holding up a large paperclip against the background, visually representing the vast number of "Clippy" users online.
-On 9 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded his first silhouette video, an annunciatory reaction to recent decisions from the company Synology. The video, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH!]", begins by dedicating the announcement to restoring consumer rights and the rights of ownership. The core of the video refers to the company formerly [[Synology_requiring_proprietary-branded_drives_to_be_used_with_its_NAS|requiring users to use only Synology hard drives in their network-attached storage units], a policy enforced by DRM. Synology reversed their decision, but Rossmann points out that it is not enough to simply undo the action; the company has to indicate plainly to its customers that they will not engage in further anti-consumer practices in the future. The video ends with a call to action for members of the Clippy movement, declaring that the fight for consumer rights had moved into a new era, in which companies reverse the detrimental actions which had previously characterized their policies toward their own customers:
+On 9 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded his first silhouette video, an annunciatory reaction to recent decisions from the company Synology. The video, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH!]", begins by dedicating the announcement to restoring consumer rights and the rights of ownership. The core of the video refers to the company formerly [[Synology_requiring_proprietary-branded_drives_to_be_used_with_its_NAS|requiring users to use only Synology hard drives in their network-attached storage units]], a policy enforced by DRM. Synology reversed their decision, but Rossmann points out that it is not enough to simply undo the action; the company has to indicate plainly to its customers that they will not engage in further anti-consumer practices in the future. The video ends with a call to action for members of the Clippy movement, declaring that the fight for consumer rights had moved into a new era, in which companies reverse the detrimental actions which had previously characterized their policies toward their own customers:
 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y&t=163s Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH! 2:43]