Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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As a legal representative of an online platform and social media website 9GAG.com, I ask you to put this post down as it unmistakingly violates our intelectual property, there: our brand of humor. Failure to so would be followed with a formal DMCA request to your fediverse provider, and then court. I reached out to you in hopes it won't get to that.
Sincerely, David Altkey
Please forward your complaint to Bethesda Software
https://youtu.be/MmF23Eri9Ss?t=13
It was a result of our licensing agreement with Bethesda Softworks (Zenimax) that allowed it's limited usage on their platforms, incl. transformative works derivative of their media products.
As a directly attributed quote (hence non-transformative) hosted outside Zenimax social media accounts and products, by a third party - it deserves scrutiny.
It directly damages our thinning stream of revenue, as gamergate-adjacent jokes as assets aren't as solid as they once were. So every penny matters.
By our conservative estimates, 9GAG.com loses $0.69 USD per upvote in it's potential revenue. The lawsuit though would not be as forgiving after all fees are applied. Still, we don't think it's going to be necessary if our request is fullfilled in a timely manner.
Sincerely, David Altkey