So, after AOL launched their cartoon Pr*ncess Natasha, I started scrubbing the word Princess off my site lest I give some 10 year old ideas which she needs to get on her own much later in life, but damn if it’s not a pain in my royal butt to get that word off my site after using it for years and years and years. It was nice to see that even with all their press the first few weeks after they launched, MY site still came up at the first on Google. I’ve changed all the graphics, I rewrote some stuff. I changed Princess to Miss, but damn if it’s not still hiding all over the place and yup, still came up in the top ten on google. Funny. I guess I have better things to do then search my site for the word Princess and hadn’t even thought about it in ages. So today I got the call from AOL’s lawyer asking me to change my search terms. You know. Change my marketing that I’ve worked so hard on the last couple years. Snip the Princess. I guess I should have asked if another royal title was available.

Took them much longer then I thought it would.

Actually, I sorta thought I removed it all. What ever. So here I am once again sitting home scrubbing my site. I’ve asked them to reinburse me for my time (or the AOL stock I bought in 2000), but we’ll see. They are big and I have already done most of it. I’m sure thats where they cease to care about Princess Blacksheep. As I’ve stated before, it’s not a point I want to argue. There are kids involved. I’m sure I could refuse to change it until they paid me, but then who would be the asshole.

The whole situation really sucks. I can’t market myself on line as Pr*ncess Natasha anymore – which means I need to chance all my ads and banners and such. Really, what bugs me more then losing my title – which I’m sure you ALL know is a title in Name Only, you will still worship my like the goddess I am! What really bugs me is my title being bullied away from me by big business that were too busy to do a quick search to see what else was out there and perhaps change their character slightly before they launched it. I know that’s not always possible, the web is a bit place, but still. Isn’t that part of basic R&D?

Anyway, if anyone needs me, I’ll be in the back of the bus with the rest of the adult sites. The next person to call me Princess or Princessa doesn’t get smacked. And yes sandra, I mean you too.

I will post again once I hear back from them.