The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
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Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
#2Y'see, this is why The Oatmeal guy is a comic genius. He understands that while
"drawing of your mom seducing a bear"
is funny,
"drawing of your mom seducing a kodiak bear"
is hilarious.
Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
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#4Mirror of The Oatmeal's post (annotated letter from the lawyer), since the site is down or slow right now:
http://rorr.im/reddit.com/r/funny/comments/uwp0d/8d937aaedad...
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They really didn't like it the last time that The Oatmeal talked about funnyjunk (and was highly linked to, commented about and other google-juice-accumulating indicators), or at least that's what the lawyer's letter indicates. Why should this time be any different?
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#6Is there any chance that FunnyJunk has played the Oatmeal for promotional purposes here?
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#7Ironically The Oatmeal is down. Presumably because so many people want to give him money that they've DDOSed his website.
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#8FunnyJunk is apparently responding quietly on their site, as just searching for the word 'oatmeal' results in no search results (that wasn't the case when this blog post went up). According to people I know that use the site, you cannot add comments with the word 'oatmeal', either. They also deleted every single linked image he exhaustively listed.
I have a hard time resolving litigation like this with the fact that the truth can change in minutes, as Web sites are fairly easy to edit. It's just scary.
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#10Is there any chance that FunnyJunk has played the Oatmeal for promotional purposes here?
I'm guessing not. This isn't exactly the kind of publicity they need.