Artcow Matt Furie - greasy, delusional furry porn artist who really hates the meme he created, litigious ANTIFA

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Everyone on The Nib is a lolcow

god, I honestly liked Tom Tomorrow about 10 years ago.

Sad to see he also has fallen into the trap of XD FUGG YOU DRUNPF LITERALLY HITLOR

 

[soryu]

Matt doesn't know how to protect his product correctly. If he never vocalized how trolls and somehow Trump took over and ruined Pepe, the takedown wouldn't be so dramatic.
Good job, Matt. You made a fool out of yourself.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

 

[Doseferatu]

Everyone on The Nib is a lolcow

A local "alternative" newspaper reprints this lolcow's comics every week, and they wonder why they have to give away the newspaper instead of selling it.

 

[Xarpho]

A local "alternative" newspaper reprints this lolcow's comics every week, and they wonder why they have to give away the newspaper instead of selling it.

"Alt"-weeklies are dying. The print version of Village Voice, the long-running NYC paper, is dead. The same parent company killed off the Minneapolis one, and last month terminated Houston Press, using Hurricane Harvey as an excuse (though with this recurring clown who can blame them?).

As for the comic above, I've seen it in Funny Times, a humor magazine that by 2016 had become almost exclusively anti-Trump humor, many using the classic strawman set-up where the author avatar is the sane and cool one and the strawman is crazy (and all used unironically).

 

[The Fatheads]

You seem upset, Mr. Furie.

 

[CIA Nigger]

On a Twitter thread from PC gamer I found a few woke commie furries defending this in between pepe posting.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't fault the guy for taking legal action against people making money off his art.

Dick move or not, he was entirely within his rights to do that.

This latest Steam avatar shit is just fuckery, though.

The guy is an absolute, utter cunt and I hope he never is known for anything other than being an absolute, utter cunt.

I hope he gets cancer, the cancer catches on fire, and then he dies in the cancer fire.

More realistically but also as though, I hope someone counter notifies on this bullshit DMCA for a fair use. Then I hope that person is notch.

 

[fcgh vgcf]

weedsmoking faggot hits a goldvein and when he realises that he sold the gold to cyberracists he tries to get the gold back only to realise that you cant recieve what you have given

 

[Doug_Hitzel]

You seem upset, Mr. Furie.

Jawohl, Mein Furie!

 

[MysteriousStranger]

Doesn't stuff in the Steam marketplace cost, like, a dime? Yeah, I'd spend a dime to piss off Furie.

He probably had a case against Steam, as they weren't really using it as anything other than Pepe (though a court might find he's totally lost control of the character by now). He wouldn't have a case against Garrison, though -- that's clearly parody.

Whether or not the art stealer is making money has no bearing on a copyright claim (though it would likely make a differences to any damages, were damages awarded).

 

[Shugo]

Doesn't stuff in the Steam marketplace cost, like, a dime?

Emoticons in the Steam marketplace cost as much as how much people will spend on them.

Some games have emoticons you can unlock by buying the game. You can sell the emoticons on the marketplace for however much you want. The price is mostly tied to the demand for the emoticon, and vaguely tied to the price of the game, since if you really want a specific emoticon that badly, you can just by the game.

As such with people who care about Steam emoticons, most of them are a dime with the exception of cute anime girls, the highest demand for emoticons on Steam, being the most expensive generally.

 

[AA 102]

Don't forget the green version:

EDIT: Almost forgot the red one:

Glad these are still cached in google lol

 

[Pop-Tart]

Remeber when pepe was dying off, then the ADL/Hillary brought it back. Then kekistani autism and facebook posting killed it? Well its having a come back. Matt Furie being retard by trying to take a meme off the internet, may give it another breath of life.

Its almost like the best way to kill something on the internet is not to make something actually forbidden and counter culture ( or just give the appearance of it). But to make it autistic and shitty so of that no one wants to touch it or be associated with it. AKA just make shit ugly, dumb, boring, and not cool.

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[AnOminous]

Whether or not the art stealer is making money has no bearing on a copyright claim (though it would likely make a differences to any damages, were damages awarded).

It has a lot of bearing, actually. It's related to the fourth factor of fair use, which is the impact on the market value of the original product. Once you're actually making money on it, even a little bit, it has more impact on the market value.

This isn't determinative, because some parodies are still fair uses even if they're derivative. The obvious example would be the poster for one of the Naked Gun movies that had Leslie Nielsen's head on a pregnant woman to parody the Annie Leibovitz photograph of Demi Moore. It's pretty obvious a movie poster advertising a movie is commercial, but it was still fair use parody.

Both sides in that case, though, were rich fucks. A multimillionaire photographer lost to a multinational corporation. They were still both well represented.

In this case, though, whatever the merits of the case are, you have a fucking bully with the monster law firm WilmerHale considering stamping out fair use to be some kind of pro bono activity, against some dude who, if he even is selling this thing, is selling it for a dime.

It still stinks on ice and fuck Matt Furie. Also fuck WilmerHale. These virtue signaling white shoe cocksuckers will burn in Hell. They've done nothing but represent rich people, and now they're using some poor-ass retard to push their political agenda. Matt Furie is just their fucking monkey.

 

[MysteriousStranger]

It has a lot of bearing, actually.

All parody is fair use, but whether or not you make money doesn't affect whether a given use is fair use (though it does have a bearing on damages).

If you're an IP lawyer...gosh, is my face red. But I sat through a one-day mini seminar on copyright law six weeks ago, so smrt.

 

[DICKPICSRUS]

Spoiler

edit fixed it

 

[Looney Troons]

The internet took this shitty character and made an icon. I’m not sure why he wouldn’t embrace the character’s success for a profit. Instead, he cucks himself out to the left and is ridiculed.

The bit about getting the stickers pulled from Steam is understandable, but I still think it’s a stretch.

Powerlevel warning:

Spoiler

I know the creator of Nyan Cat in real life. He makes a fair sum of profit off of merchandising now (has his own online storefront where you can buy shitty polished and stickers), but prior, he was a bit like Matt here and sperged out on everyone that was using his image. He’d spend countless hours a day with his lawyer firing off DMCAs, and was quite vocally miserable over social media about it. Over the years, he has chilled out about it (except for when Sum41 put all of the memes in their newest, shitty music video. The chimpout was unreal), and let people use it so as long as it wasn’t monetized.

Maybe Furrie will also realize that his shitty creation, like Nyan Cat, belongs to the internet.

 

[FriendlyNeighborhoodDaddy]

People who make nazi Pepe memes--

People who think it's just funny: 97.9%

Spergs who think they're "taking it back from Katy Perry": 2.0%

Autistic Nazis who don't understand irony or humor: 0.1%
______________________

People who freak out about Pepe "hate symbol"--

Faggots: 100%

 

[c-no]

On a Twitter thread from PC gamer I found a few woke commie furries defending this in between pepe posting.

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Truly Steam was made cleaner from undoing an emoticon. It's not like any of these people is disregarding the fact that it's just a stupid meme that probably cost ten cents at most. Oh wait, they probably aren't too familiar with the Steam marketplace nor do they realize the worse the emoticon has is just being autistically spammed in some profiles.

Doesn't stuff in the Steam marketplace cost, like, a dime? Yeah, I'd spend a dime to piss off Furie.

He probably had a case against Steam, as they weren't really using it as anything other than Pepe (though a court might find he's totally lost control of the character by now). He wouldn't have a case against Garrison, though -- that's clearly parody.

Whether or not the art stealer is making money has no bearing on a copyright claim (though it would likely make a differences to any damages, were damages awarded).

These things really would cost a dime at most. As @Shugo says, most of these emoticons aren't much unless they were weeb animu grill emoticons. Much as the commie furs could laugh at people paying them, it's more likely just ten cents wasted compared to people spending more money on say mobile game money.

Remeber when pepe was dying off, then the ADL/Hillary brought it back. Then kekistani autism and facebook posting killed it? Well its having a come back. Matt Furie being exceptional individual by trying to take a meme off the internet, may give it another breath of life.

Its almost like the best way to kill something on the internet is not to make something actually forbidden and counter culture ( or just give the appearance of it). But to make it autistic and shitty so of that no one wants to touch it or be associated with it. AKA just make shit ugly, dumb, boring, and not cool.

bigthinkingemoji.png

Pepe may as well be an undying meme if Furie keeps trying to fight it. If he had just left it alone after the Kekistani autism, Pepe could of just been left to be obscured, known mostly in just some autistic group of people doing some sort of cringy shit with a green frog.