Funny Knock Off Brands

Updated on November 7, 2025

I swung into a dollar store for batteries and left photographing a wall of uncanny cereal mascots—proof that funny knock off brands are the universe’s way of saying “measure twice, label once.” Somewhere between the aisles, my inner coach started calling plays for the camera roll.

This batch has flea-market sparkle and mall-kiosk confidence: Wish-tier labels, AliExpress specials, and local shop curiosities that turn funny product packaging into performance art. Expect snack lookalikes, shoe almost-logos, and laundry soap with a suspiciously friendly bear. It’s the natural habitat of bootleg products and ripoff brand photos.

23 Funny Knock Off Brands & Products

Those soda “originals” with names like “Peppy” and “Dr. Zepp”? Instant classics. You saw the fonts doing parkour and the mascots smiling like they owe someone royalties. The funniest funny knock off brands were the ones that nearly stuck the landing—clean colors, close names, unhinged taglines.

The footwear aisle was a whole saga. Air-looking sneakers with extra swooshes, plus a basketball guy who clearly moonlights as a triangle. That cluster of questionable packaging around the socks? A museum exhibit in waiting. The ripoff brand photos practically caption themselves.

Snack time was chaos. Off-brand sandwich cookies that promise “Cream-ish!” and chips whose flavor is legally “festival.” Those boxes reminded you why funny product packaging works best with bold type and simple backgrounds; it reads at thumbnail speed and prints like a dream for break-room boards.

Household goods carried the comedy baton—detergent named “Springtide Adjacent,” batteries labeled “Definitely Power,” and a towel brand called “Absorb-ish.” It’s peak bootleg products energy: confident, colorful, and 12% out of bounds. Tag those under brand name oops for later deployment.

The near-misses were the most lovable: cereal heroes with copyright-safe chin angles, candy bars that swapped two letters and called it destiny, and an energy drink boasting “0% regret*” with asterisks the size of raisins. That’s textbook mall kiosk energy, and the gallery gave you a semester’s worth.

If your camera roll still has stamina after these funny knock off brands, stack these next to today’s haul: 35 Bizarre Store Sign Photos That Make Zero Sense, 40 Hilarious Packaging Fails You’ll Screenshot Twice, and 29 Dollar Tree Memes That Broke Our Brains.

Jake Parker calls plays from the snack aisle, runs a full-court press on labels, and celebrates every tidy crop like a buzzer-beater.