Attribution is not linking. Attribution is giving proper credit to the artist who created the work. A link back to a homepage is a courtesy typically given to

Attribution is not linking. Attribution is giving proper credit to the artist who created the work. A link back to a homepage is a courtesy typically given today when someone gives credit. On a site like FJ, when the correct attribution is missing it essentially means that the user submitting it is taking credit for someone else's work, i.e. plagiarism (since the premise is to submit your original work). Also, from the update it looks like the "extreme irony" you mention is actually that the copies that attributed the comic to "The Oatmeal" now attribute it to "The Fag." So they are still there! You can go review back issues all you want, just now the artist doesn't even get credit for those.