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Charles Carreon
Summary
Charles Carreon is quite possibly the stupidest person to ever manage to pass a bar exam and enter the legal proffesion. He's an old relic of the late 70s, early 80s brand of ambulance chaser slash threaten to sue every other person with a pulse style of bully-lawyering. Aside from being the inspiration of the Rocky 5 villian, Charles is currently best known for reaching a level of butthurt so absolutely unprecedented in Internets history that he's gone out of his way to try and sue major charity organizations in quite possibly the most fail attempt at trying to "get back" at another person on the Interwebs for making him so incredibly butt flustered.
Enter The Hero
The hero of this story is The Oatmeal, a popular web comic that's stylized after the enraged crayon dribblings of a spastically hormonal seventh grader strung the fuck out on Pixie Stix and Pepsi. Due to its stunning visual quality and uber sophisticated humor it has become wildly popular, boasting a fantard following that spans over a half million sheeple!
The Story Begins
Due to its popularity an endless swarm of 13 year old boys began pissing all over The Oatmeal's copyrights and started mass distributing and "sharing" his work on other popular websites which then profited off of it via their own ad banners, most notably the ironically unfunny Funny Junk website.
The Oatmeal originally cried foul against this unwanted ass rape of his art and demanded that his images be removed from the site. However he quickly realized the futility of having to file DMCA take-down requests for every single pilfered photo that could just be reuploaded again and again by different users and instead chose to mock the Funny Junk website in satirical, comedic fashion.
Believing that to be the end of the whole affair, The Oatmeal went on with life as usual, leaving the whole mess behind them.
One Year Later
Enter the villain, Charles Carreon! Almost exactly one year later The Oatmeal was served with legal papers from Charles Carreon on behalf of Funny Junk, demanding that The Oatmeal pay him and his client TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for stealing hosting his unlicensed comic on their site for the past three years.
Their reason and justification for this overly obvious attempt at outright laughable extortion/blackmail was that The Oatmeal had made fun of them for stealing his work and that it ~totally~ ruined their e-reputation on the Interwebs!
The Hero Strikes Back
The Oatmeal, not finding these threats of extortion from FunnyJunk and their bully-lawyer to be at all funny, decided to fight fire with water! The Oatmeal turned to comedy and his comics and created a hilarious fundraiser out of the situation. His goal was to try and raise the $20,000 extortion demand via donations, only instead of forking it over to Charles Carreon he would instead take a picture of the money and send the picture to him along with a poorly drawn MS Paint picture of Charles's mom making love to a bear. The money would then in turn be donated to The National Wildlife Federation and The American Cancer Society.
The Internets Respond
The incredible success of this fundraiser has, thus far, been absolutely monumental to say the least bit. The original $20,000 goal has long been surpassed and some estimate that by the time it's over The Oatmeal may have generated roughly a QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS in fundraiser donations!
Along with these donations has of course come with the usual Internet backlash of Internets rage over what this man and Funny Junk tried to do. To steal an artists work and to then turn around and try and steal huge sums of cash from them obviously didn't sit well with...well, ANYONE! As such, every other doorknob with a computer immediately started firing off hate filled e-mails, enraged phone calls and every manner of threatening nastiness imaginable.
