Comments on: FunnyJunk threatens to sue Oatmeal creator

By: thatbob

thatbob — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:14:00 +0000

Mortimer Ichabod Marker, Esq.

By: pjk

pjk — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:10:00 +0000

personally, I’m really looking forward to thepornmeal.com

By: Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:08:00 +0000

Some of us hate MegaUpload too.

By: Malinda Perkins

Malinda Perkins — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:52:00 +0000

Matt is not interested in sueing ANYONE. He just wants to write comics.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:58:00 +0000

But they can be called douches if they keep using a site that enjoys making money from other peoples work, and when Google rankings shift them down below one of the people they rip off send a letter demanding to get paid.
They made outrageous claims and demanded money, Oatmeal backed up his claims and never demanded money.

By: bklynchris

bklynchris — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:34:00 +0000

Withnail, s’it just me or s’that you?
Can’t wait to see the photo of monies. Do you think oatmeal is thinking, ok i said 20K to bears on chemo, canz the rest be for me please?

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:47:00 +0000

“Building Better Memes”

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Cheezburger-Yutani has laser cats. You don’t have a chance.

By: eselqueso

eselqueso — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:41:00 +0000

Staying on theme here…

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:13:00 +0000

FJ is not on the Wayback Machine. Maybe the Internet Archive spiders didn’t like the taste.

By: Westfakia

Westfakia — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:06:00 +0000

Symmetrical flags are unaffected, so your total would be less than half.

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:48:00 +0000

MegaUpload didn’t feature content scraped from other sites; it featured content scraped from DVDs. There’s a difference.

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:43:00 +0000

When do we go go after the Cheezburger network?

By: asterios9

asterios9 — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:25:00 +0000

I guess I am terribly anal retentive, but I think raising a neat $20K would have said “look at this money you can’t have” better than a giant heap.

I guess it does say “people really love The Oatmeal” though.

By: alexorella

alexorella — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:21:00 +0000

Most of those links go to 404s now that they’ve started taking content down. Google will just think they have a bunch of crappy broken content.

By: robdobbs

robdobbs — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0000

I wonder if anyone has posted this particular comic on FunnyJunk.

Yep: http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3786053/Oatmeal+vs.+FJ/

By: blueelm

blueelm — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:46:00 +0000

Wow. It is 107k now. Still in 24 hours! Holy… bear love.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:52:00 +0000

I want BoingBoing to be the top site for porn!

porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn

By: SamSam

SamSam — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:45:00 +0000

Holy shit the power of Reddit: $104,779 raised.

By: joe k.

joe k. — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:16:00 +0000

I hadn’t heard of “funnyjunk” before, so I assumed “he” was some kind of white hip hop artist, like eminem… and I was also thinking why would a hip hop artist sue the Oatmeal. The pieces JUST DIDN’T FIT. So I clicked the links and wow.

That’s a lot of money! Good job, The Oatmeal!

By: Jellodyne

Jellodyne — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:03:00 +0000

Of course, by live linking all those urls on from his site to theirs, he’s raising their Google rep.

By: Matt Popke

Matt Popke — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:53:00 +0000

FunnyJunk had a reputation? This is the first I’ve heard of them. Who actually uses these crap aggregator sites? I’m consistently amazed at how different a place the internet seems to be for some people than it is for me. Makes me worry about the “filter bubble” effect more and more, especially during an election year (what if I’m wrong and Romney actually does have a chance of winning? It’s downright terrifying to think of just how wrong my perspective of the current state of the world might be).

By: Nonentity

Nonentity — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:33:00 +0000

I think it’s rather funny that a search for “oatmeal” on funnyjunk currently returns no results.. while just to the left side of the page, under “top funnyjunk”, there is one titled “Oatmeal vs. FJ”.

It would be interesting see them defend the search term blacklisting in court. I’m pretty sure “make it more difficult for artists to find infringement of their copyrights” is not an appropriate action under the DMCA.

By: flosofl

flosofl — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:31:00 +0000

And some of us hate both.

Today you learned that not all people are the same. (said in as annoyingly sarcastic voice you can imagine)

By: mccrum

mccrum — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:29:00 +0000

Ugh. No thanks. I can’t think of a worse way to ruin dinner than having lawyers involved.

By: mccrum

mccrum — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:28:00 +0000

It depends on where you stand on the matter, I suppose.

By: Theo Grace

Theo Grace — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:25:00 +0000

My understanding is that this only applies where the threatened action is legal rather than civil. (i.e. one cannot use evidence/ threat of legal prosecution to further a civil suit or extort money, however when done so in relation to a civil suit it is seen merely as a settlement)

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:21:00 +0000

Really? After a lawyer has spent six sweltering months in the pen, with no room to turn around or lie down, fed through a tube, their excretions falling through the grated floor, their sweaty bodies hosed off perhaps once a week, their tenderized flesh swelling with succulent lawyer juices…. you want the PEN?!?!?

Fire up the BBQ, we’re having lawyer steaks for dinner.

By: Darren MacLennan

Darren MacLennan — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:10:00 +0000

Jokes _are_ shame.

By: Eric09

Eric09 — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:10:00 +0000

He was hoping to raise $20,000 in 15 days, and instead raised almost $100k in 24 hours? Holy crap.

Oh, and Funnyjunk’s reputation is pretty much dead in the water at this point. Was it worth it?