UN "What if Trayvon Lived?" book DMCA'd by Martin estate

What if Trayvon Lived? is a real book published by Mike S. Wood, more commonly known as SmegmaKing. If you've been to twitter at all, you've probably seen SmegmaKing.

It was accessible for purchase here.

Here is the sample page.


Here's the DMCA takedown notice from Amazon.


And here's MIke's correspondence with the family.


SmegmaKing's video about his book.

Also I don't know who we're laughing at here but I thought this shit was funny as hell.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

This reminds me of the sort of folks who make games like the Super Columbine RPG or nominate Joseph Fritzl as "father of the year".

 

[wristwatchswisswatch]

You guys remember when Smegmaking was funny and had some hilarious tweets? Yeah, me neither.


It was always some pandering bullshit that made it clear he didn't get any attention as a child.

 

[Blueberry]

He is like Encyclopedia Dramatica in human form.

 

[wristwatchswisswatch]

He is like Encyclopedia Dramatica in human form.

That is far too generous.

 

[namazuros]

You guys remember when Smegmaking was funny and had some hilarious tweets? Yeah, me neither.


It was always some pandering bullshit that made it clear he didn't get any attention as a child.

I'm absolutely positive he spammed his own tweets on 4chan. He had like...a handful of mediocre jokes that were completely buried under a sea of trying too hard attempts at edgy humor.

 

[HG 400]

lol

 

[YI 457]

The book is back, and that's the new cover...

 

[press1forjews]

This reminds me of the sort of folks who make games like the Super Columbine RPG or nominate Joseph Fritzl as "father of the year".

At least SCRPG was free, and honestly I think it did a pretty good job of what it set out to do. It was (as far as I can tell), accurate and was genuinely uncomfortable (in a good way).

 

[KatsuKitty]

The book is back, and that's the new cover...

Still a derivative work.

 

[SpessCaptain]

>Look Inside.
>Read first lines.
It's fucking fan fiction.

Heres something else: People seriously write what if's about if Anne Frank lived, I think there's one where Dorner continued to live as well and I find it weirdly crooked.

Of course there's going to be ways to corner the market on a devastation through media, written or otherwise. Most people usually think of of Titanic's sinking being exploited through movies and games.

We only have first-hand accounts of the ship sinking and the wreckage. There are so many holes in the story the events seem unbelievable and become near-legendary. People create content to fill in the visual or empathic void of these events, which explains film's like Cameron's Titanic.

People want to experience these events as first hand as possible.

Things like 9/11 and Dorner and the Boston Bombings aren't as legendary because we have visual proof of the events and news coverage, we've experienced it as the news reports as 'first hand', there's actual faces and locations and we get hours worth of content on the event, but most importantly we know that these media these were real people who got hurt.

Trayvon's situation falls into this category of events, where that void of media is nonexistent and the actual event 'too real' for population there is no point to fill in this void.

 

[AnOminous]

Still a derivative work.

Not of the claimed copyrighted material, though. I'm pretty sure Trayvon's family has no ownership of a picture of a nebula, and the hoodie is clearly enough to evoke the original while not taking the heart of the work.

It's now IMO pretty clearly in fair use territory.

 

[The Phantom on the Hill]

Of course it has to be erotica......

 

[Cosmos]

This is literally 3edgy5me: The Book. Like, I read the first couple pages and I'm 99% sure that he managed to cram in every stereotype about black people known to man (foodstamps, weaves, massive amounts of children, crack, AAVE, laziness, etc). There's satire and then there's... this.

 

[KingofManga420]

Some of you should look up who SmegmaKing is. He's typically hilarious and makes incredible satire.

 

[Enig]

Thin skins. Thin skins everywhere. I thought Manlytears was still in the gay baby jail but I guess not.

 

[Poor Choices]

Thin skins. Thin skins everywhere. I thought Manlytears was still in the gay baby jail but I guess not.

Stop being thin skinned about people being thin skinned.

 

[Dilbertmann]

Stop being thin skinned about people being thin skinned.

You stop being thin skinned about someone's thin skinned opinion on thin-skinned people, you thin-skinned bastard!

 

[Holdek]

How much time did this guy put in to writing this?

 

[Cosmos]

How much time did this guy put in to writing this?

Far too much of it, I'm guessing.

 

[AnOminous]

How much time did this guy put in to writing this?

I'm sure he wasted entire minutes.