Back when this blog was at the peak of popularity in about 2015, some loser MTV web content thrall decided it would be funny to scoop a bunch of my jokes and emulate my 'writerly voice' for a listicle on their website. No credit, no links, nothing indicating where they lifted "dinosaurs are going to re-evolve and kill us all with their knife-evolving bodies" rhetoric from. It really made me sad at the time, because I was struggling to make this blog into something more broadly shared on the web.
MTV's online content was all deleted when they shut down this year. Everything ever written for them is dust, or half forgotten on the Internet Archive. All that writing, design, opinion, photography, and all the designs of the fools who scraped it together now lie in ruin. It is because they stole from me. If you steal from people to feed your sick, empty corporate masters, guess what? Your fate will be no different.
Anyway, here's the original response post from 2015.
It came to my attention through twitter the other day that an “author” for MTV News had partially lifted and severely dumbed down some content from this blog for one of those cringey GIF listicles. I’m not going to link it, because fuck their traffic, but if you follow my twitter you can find it pretty easily. The content was a couple of jokes from my archive, in particular a few about how dinosaurs don’t have feelings. The writer took out my highbrow punchlines and rephrased them (added a cat). I wouldn’t quite call it a cut and paste case of plagiarism, but it definitely qualifies as a Mencia.
This is what happens.
This hurt my feelings. How hard is it to link to my political extremism blog?
So I made a comic about it… a REVENGE comic. It is called “The Nihilist MTV Flintstones.” It is about how the Nihilists who write for MTV are unfeeling, dead-inside cavemen. Pretending not to care about anything in order to be cool in the 90’s has led the Nihilist MTV Flintstones to lose their humanity. Oh well.
Enjoy!
"Hey, wow! That was so uplifting!" - The Reader