A pleasant gentleman in no immediate distress

“ragequit!” get it? it’s something you heard already, so it’s funny

http://codalion.tumblr.com/post/18035830759

“I’m not really in the fandom in question, but I thought obvious Beaton parodies were obvious? Something something about jokes and explaining them, I don’t draw fancomic-parodies but I don’t source every joke I make either, particularly not on something as ubiquitous as Beaton jokes.”

That did it.

This place is full of pretend experts too myopic to see how any part of the world functions beyond what they themselves contain. An artist is well-known to this person, so of course the artist is well-known to all people, and therefore there is no need to source their work.

After all, that would be overexplaining the joke.

The joke that you did not make. The joke that you lifted from the original artist wholesale.

There is a difference between parody and copying, between homage and copying. But not on Tumblr. Not here.