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from what I understand the majority of his traffic came from gaming reddit, which recently turned on him after he did something (don't quote me, but I think it

• lmkg 16y ago
  The cursing out episode was from Twenty Seven B Slash Six, not The Oatmeal. And the bigger hubbub was over the fact that the author posted personal information on reddit (trying to confirm someone's shipping address).
  • TrevorJ 16y ago
    This is correct. It was not The Oatmeal.
  • ElbertF 16y ago
    See http://www.27bslash6.com/reddit.html http://www.27bslash6.com/reddit.html
  • hardik988 16y ago
    This guy reminds me of Maddox (http://maddox.xmission.com/ http://maddox.xmission.com/).
• moxiemk1 16y ago
  The guy who ticked off Reddit for being rude to a customer was this guy: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html The Oatmeal may get most of their money via Reddit, but I don't think Reddit has a beef with them.
• lotusleaf1987 16y ago
  Here are some threads on Reddit which called him out: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_game_digg_using_infographics_voting/?limit=500 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_ga... And: http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/dril6/the_oatmeal_aka_giantbatfart_aka_matthew_inman_is/ http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/dril6/the_oatmeal_ak... Basically someone working SEO used GiantBatFart (The Oatmeal's Reddit username) as an example of people using SEO on Reddit and Digg. Long story short, The Oatmeal got mad.
• naner 16y ago
  He was very active on Reddit while he was first starting out with comics (he did an IAMA and commented on the site a lot, talked about SEOmoz, too), Reddit revolted on him for possibly using SEO techniques and being rude (insulting critics on twitter, etc), he started redirecting any traffic from the reddit domain to a rickroll page, and now everything seems to be back to normal. He's been on Reddit for over 3 years: http://www.reddit.com/user/GiantBatFart http://www.reddit.com/user/GiantBatFart His IAMA was 11 months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/iama/comments/aws4z http://www.reddit.com/r/iama/comments/aws4z Reddit revolts (2 months ago): http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/dreg7/how_to_pander_like_the_oatmeal/c12cbih http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/dreg7/how_to_pander_... The Oatmeal redirects Reddit traffic: http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/eb3pg/every_oatmeal_link_redirects_to_a_rickroll_if/ http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/eb3pg/every_oatmeal_... The Oatmeal comics work again on Reddit. Tubemonster (author of Hyperbole and a Half) defends him: http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/eow1i/how_different_age_groups_celebrate_christmas_the/c19rtin http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/eow1i/how_different_... There you go. More than you ever wanted to know about one of Reddit's many soap operas.
  • ilovecomputers 16y ago
    I think soap operas is a more apt way of describing internet drama: hard to follow, last a long time, and when you get right down to it: the content of the drama is very thin, so why bother?
    • Stormbringer 16y ago
      Also, nothing changes.
  • Groxx 16y ago
    Redirect rickroll... that's an awesome way to make up with a website. Gotta wonder how what his traffic looked like once he did that.
• tkahn6 16y ago
  He rickrolled all traffic from reddit.com. http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/eb3pg/ http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/eb3pg/