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Posted by Sushipunk on Jun-13-2012 00:58:

The Oatmeal vs. Funnyjunk

The back story on this is that, about a year ago, Matthew Inman (AKA The Oatmeal) found that the Funnyjunk site had taken a bunch of his comics and re-hosted them on their own site without credits, and were making money off the ads etc. There was a bit of back-and-forth, but eventually he just said "fuck it" and ignored it.

A year later, the Funnyjunk site is suing him for defamation, to the tune of $20,000.

His response, aside from being fucking hilarious is that he will:

a) Raise $20,000 in donations
b) Take a photo of that raised money, and
c) Mail that photo to them, along with the following picture of "your mom seducing this Kodiak bear"

In one day he's raised over $117,000. He'll be donating it to the National Wildlife Federation, and the American Cancer Society.

CLICKY >>Read The Oatmeal's response here<<

CLICKY >>A separate article with some responses from Funnyjunk's lawyer<<

So epic

Posted by tubularbills on Jun-13-2012 01:05:

WOW

Posted by Lira on Jun-13-2012 01:12:

Awesome

Posted by kadomony on Jun-13-2012 01:16:

quote:
"I'm completely unfamiliar really with this style of responding to a legal threat � I've never really seen it before," Carreon explains. "I don't like seeing anyone referring to my mother as a sexual deviant," he added, referencing the drawing Inman posted.

Posted by Lira on Jun-13-2012 01:40:

Here's the link to the article Kad quoted: Cartoonist turns lawsuit threat into $100K charity fundraiser.

Simply awesome

Posted by Guest on Jun-13-2012 01:40:

This is brilliant

Posted by Sushipunk on Jun-13-2012 01:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
Here's the link to the article Kad quoted: Cartoonist turns lawsuit threat into $100K charity fundraiser.

Simply awesome

That's in the OP already, under The Oatmeal's response link

Posted by Intellekshual on Jun-13-2012 01:44:

Outstanding.

Posted by 6meets9 on Jun-13-2012 01:52:

LOL

Posted by Sushipunk on Jun-13-2012 02:42:

It's up over $132,000 now. LMAO.

Posted by Lira on Jun-13-2012 03:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Sushipunk
That's in the OP already, under The Oatmeal's response link

Oh. Silly me

Posted by TheTrinity on Jun-13-2012 07:07:

i am speechless

im just going to

quote:
Originally posted by Charlie Sheen
WINNING !!

Posted by TheTrinity on Jun-13-2012 07:31:

I cant stop laughing my ass off.

quote:

When I reached out to FunnyJunk's lawyer, Charles Carreon, to discuss the situation, he explained that he'd removed his contact information from his website due to the large number of people who'd contacted him after Inman's blog post went online.
"I really did not expect that he would marshal an army of people who would besiege my website and send me a string of obscene emails," he says.

Posted by Frenkieee on Jun-14-2012 19:56:

Inman is a fucking genius.

Posted by Sushipunk on Jun-14-2012 22:22:

Raised over $165,000 so far.

Posted by Lira on Jul-10-2012 02:40:

Posted by Sushipunk on Jul-10-2012 02:45:

I was about to bump this too

Here's the link to the write-up on his site:

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/charity_money

So much win

Posted by FuzzQi on Jul-10-2012 08:36:

Posted by Acton on Jul-10-2012 10:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Sushipunk
I was about to bump this too

Here's the link to the write-up on his site:

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/charity_money

So much win

Brilliant

Posted by Sushipunk on Jul-10-2012 11:35:

He's definitely the 2nd coolest person on the internet.

The coolest is David Thorne

Posted by Swamper on Jul-10-2012 12:36:

lol

Posted by Lira on Jul-10-2012 16:03:

quote:
Originally posted by Sushipunk
He's definitely the 2nd coolest person on the internet.

The coolest is David Thorne

Philantropy > Douchebaggery... so Inman totally wins

Posted by Frenkieee on Jul-10-2012 18:48:

I bet the fact that Thorne is Australian puts him in first place.