How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal 218
ryzvonusef tips this quote from TechCrunch about a tit-for-tat exchange between Google+ and the creator of The Oatmeal webcomic:
"This summer, the artist (Matthew Inman) wrote that Google+ comment threads sound like *crickets*, poking fun at the social network's lack of engagement. He also criticized not being able to 'set up a fancy profile URL so I don't have to link people to http://plus.google.com/blergasdf1234thimbleturdorgasm99meatpoopypoopxv9donkeypie ' — a made-up, ridiculously long string of random characters. ... In retaliation, the Google+ team didn't cite its user growth stats or give an excuse for why there are no custom profile URLs. ... Instead, they just redirected the vanity URL back to The Oatmeal author Matthew Inman's Google+ profile. Congrats, Matt, you've now got 'donkey pie' at the end of your own special Google+ vanity URL."
I still don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
What does "punk'd" mean?
Re:I still don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
It's a reference to a TV show from a few years ago where Ashton Kutcher would play pranks on-
Oh. I see.
Well played.
Re:The reality... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I still don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
Okay, I think I've got it. So the heading should be "How Google+ watches too much awful television and doesn't own a thesaurus The Oatmeal".
Re:ummm....Punk Oatmeal? (Score:5, Funny)
You should beg for a sense of humor instead.
Re:The reality... (Score:5, Funny)
The average IQ is 100 by definition, it can't go up and down.
So I can actually increase my IQ by simply killing people who are smarter than me. Something to think about.
Re:I still don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah.... Burn!!!!!
-- Signed, Kelso
Re:ummm....Punk Oatmeal? (Score:5, Funny)
I beg to differ.
Permission granted. You may now differ.
Re:The reality... (Score:5, Funny)
And thus began the IQ wars, and a species' return to the trees...
Re:The reality... (Score:5, Funny)
Why? You summed it up nicely.
Re:Wow! That's almost hilarious! (Score:5, Funny)
Childish?
Childish would be receiving a lawsuit threat and settlement request for $20,000 from a lawyer, drawing a comic about said lawyers mother being humped by bears, then creating a charity drive called bears good, cancer bad to collect money for two very worthwhile charities. Then collecting nearly $200,000 in contributions for the charity drive, collecting the money as cash, arranging said cash into the words Fuck You, taking a picture of said arrangement and sending the photo to the lawyer.
That might be considered childish. The author of the Oatmeal comic did that.
Re:The reality... (Score:5, Funny)
Strange, the other day I was thinking that Facebook wouldn't be so bad if you got rid of all those people.
Kinda like California!
Re:Google is like '90s Microsoft... (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, it's a real shame how Microsoft wiped those out and they disappeared.
Re:The reality... (Score:4, Funny)
G+, a vastly superior platform.... ....except that there's nobody on it, which is what makes a social platform superior.
Actually the vastly superior platform is Diaspora [joindiaspora.com]... which no-one is using either.
Re:I still don't get it (Score:4, Funny)
Because unlike some other Robin hoods, I can speak with an English accent!