Inman shot back at FunnyJunk's users —"when puberty started last year it was a really tough and confusing time for you. Sorry in advance if it makes things worse, but I'm a little drunk. Discussion of the controversy has sprawled across Facebook and into sites like Reddit , where lively debates have broken out, but at least some of Inman's content has been removed.
Funnyjunk pulled all uploads involving the words "The Oatmeal"—though as Inman noted in a followup blog post , "This means that all the content which was properly attributed got wiped out and all the comics that have no mention of me are still there, which is basically my entire website.
Inman posted a list of the remaining comics on FunnyJunk. But the most interesting conversation may have been the one taking place on FunnyJunk itself. Another added, "personally i couldnt care less about whether fj [FunnyJunk] is hated by everyone. Others called for FunnyJunk uploaders to become more creative. The digital advocacy group Public Knowledge sees the entire controversy as a Viacom v.
YouTube battle in miniature. Inman doesn't really agree; he notes that his entire comics are usually copied, while much of the material on sites like YouTube was clips. Still, similarities certainly exist. Content owners have long complained that the DMCA requires them to do too much work policing their own content, especially when other users can simply upload more clips as old ones are taken down.
But the difference here is the smaller scale of the dispute, and the general lack of lawyers. These kinds of small skirmishes will help to create a set of social norms around content production and use on the Internet—which may be just as important as IP laws and court cases when it comes to shaping people's behavior.
Goliath or Goliath vs. Goliath affairs. By the same token, many entirely legitimate online services face legal uncertainty. Posts can be thumbed up or down by registered users and the top voted content is featured on the front page.
An image macro generator allows users to caption uploaded images and a comic creator provides a user interface for creating rage comics. The main section of FunnyJunk is considered "work safe", but there is an entire "NSFW" section accessible to registered users. The commenting system includes a mechanic called "rolling", which allows users to display randomly selected numbers, images and user names.
Several wordfilters have been implemented in the commenting system. The words "thumb" and "penis" becoming highlighted and capitalized and the word "Admin" has been changed to a variety of different words including "sadmin", "badmin", "Princess Celestia", "man in the mirror", and "the most beautiful man in the world.
From May 13th to June 12th, , FunnyJunk received over 19,, pageviews, 56, logged in users and 90, comments. According to a post on online news site WebUpon [15] , on Feburary 28th, , users from the image board 4chan led a raid against FunnyJunk in which the site was repeatedly spammed with images, but was considered a failure by the FunnyJunk community.
On June 1st, Inman published a follow-up post titled "An update on the FunnyJunk situation", which included a screenshot of a mass email sent by FunnyJunk's owner urging members of the site to contact The Oatmeal shown below.
The Oatmeal's Facebook page was subsequently inundated with comments from FunnyJunk users attacking Inman for sending a cease and desist request to the site. Inman responded by posting a letter insulting the commenters' intelligence shown below, left and claimed he had no intention of suing FunnyJunk or having it shut down.
He went on to reveal that after receiving the donations, he would mail a photo of the money to Carreon along with a drawing of his mother seducing a Kodiak bear shown below. The article included a statement from Carreon who was surprised by the Internet 's reaction to the legal dispute, revealing he would attempt to have the fundraising campaign shut down.
I don't like seeing anyone referring to my mother as a sexual deviant. The exploitable photoshop meme Happy Hank uses a still image of the character Hank Hill from the Fox cartoon series King of the Hill edited over the faces of subjects in a variety of different images. The first photoshops were submitted by an unknown FunnyJunk user on December 10th, The expression "Ladies, Please, Contain Your Orgasms" is typically used to caption image macros of unattractive men exhibiting an aura of self confidence.
The earliest known instance was submitted by FunnyJunk user butterpancakes on September 22nd, Oh God Why is a rage comic character that expresses remorse and shame when recounted embarrassing or disturbing childhood events. It was created by FunnyJunk user Diamondhead, who published the first examples of the character on July 23rd, View All Videos. He removed all the stolen material. Unfortunately , he only deleted posts which have "The Oatmeal" in the title.
This means that all the content which was properly attributed got wiped out and all the comics that have no mention of me are still there, which is basically my entire website. To the admin of FunnyJunk: I put together a list of all my comics which you can download here and use to remove the remainder of the stolen material.
To the users of FunnyJunk: I never had plans to sue FunnyJunk and get it shut down; I just wanted my stolen comics removed -- your admin is a moron who chooses his words about as carefully as a mule chooses where to take a shit.
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