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Oatmeal Creator Crashes Indiegogo To Address Lawsuit, Raises $20,000 In Minutes
- kathrynhough 14y agoI love how the community on the Internet can come together in an hour to squash complaints like this. Matthew is beloved and there is no way that we would let him fight this alone.
- goatforce5 14y agoTitle is wrong: he's not settling the lawsuit... He's raising some money for charity, and raising his middle finger to the lawsuit.
- cantankerous 14y agoHe's not "settling" in the legal sense. He's settling in the sense that he's putting the dispute to bed. We'll see how it turns out for him.
- colanderman 14y agoIt's quite a clever way to make a show of fundraising ability, and possibly scaring Funky Junk away.
- gkoberger 14y agoWhole story from the original source (and a much more enjoyable read): http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk_letter http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk_letter Only thing that link is missing is the "$20k in 64 minutes; $100k+ and rising now" stat.
- Avenger42 14y agoSee other comments here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4097810 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4097810