In case you're wondering what's going on here, this is what it's all about. Funnyjunk steals Oatmeal's comics, Oatmeal asks them to stop, Funnyjunk thinks lawsuit is appropriate. This is TheOatmeal's response.

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Essentially, here's a quick point-for-point rundown of the whole thing, a drawn out "TL:DR" if you will.

• Funnyjunk hires Charles Carreon, a lawyer with a name-fitting play on the word "carrion," who specializes in online law.

CC sends letter to TheOatmeal stating several grievances; Presented here to you in summarized bullet-points.

• He accuses TheOatmeal of slander in a previous post where TheOatmeal outlines funnyjunk's "business plan" which accuses them of copying and rebranding artists' original works, saying "our users uploaded it, we have no control!" then profiting on ads. CC thinks this is grossly exaggerated and they act promptly on DMCA complaints.

• TheOatmeal counters with a list including hundreds of active links where his site's information is cropped out or removed, posted to funnyjunk. They have since been removed.

• CC then accuses TheOatmeal of loading null hyperlinks so that TheOatmeal comes up in google search when someone searches for Funnyjunk.

• TheOatmeal points out why that's absolute bullshit.

• CC accuses him with making false statements with malicious purpose because of an ASCII pterodactyl on TheOatmeal that's been there since 2009.

• There are few ways to describe just how 'epic fail' that is, but TheOatmeal sums it up nicely by pointing out it existed far before the issue at hand. With evidence, to boot.

• Charles Carreon demands $20,000 USD and all mention of Funnyjunk be taken off TheOatmeal by June 12, 2012.

• TheOatmeal counters by offering to send him a picture of his mom seducing a bear, and a picture of all the money he raised for charity as a gentlman's "fuck you."

Further insight by ajw827

1. They have no defamation case because, although they tried to delete everything, cached pages show they did steal from Oatmeal tons of times as recently as May 23, 2012, so the required element of false allegations in a defamation suit do not exist.

2. As a lawyer on Oatmeal's FB pointed out, including link to actual statute, demanding $20K to avoid the suit could be possible extortion by Funnyjunk.

3. Oatmeal made them look super foolish, tons of media outlets have run the story, almost all concluding Funnyjunk has no case and made themselves look like fools.

4. The fact that Oatmeal has turned this into tons of dough for charities makes them look awesome, which probably was not what Funnyjunk had in mind.