Walmart Displeased With Walmart.Horse, Wants It Taken Down - Consumerist
Alas, I’m not able to put this tweet in correctly, but checking for a new comic from one of my favorites, I found this instead:
Jacques Frost @jephjacques * 2h 2 hours ago
This is what I will be remembered for. Not my comics, just that one time I pissed off Walmart.
Reply Retweet34 Favorite153Jacques Frost @jephjacques * 2h 2 hours ago
Consumerist article on walmart.horse consumerist.com …
Which takes us to this:
If you’re looking for the Walmart website, your instinct would be to simply go to walmart.com, or maybe walmart.net, or even walmart.org… all of which go to the same place. There is currently no reason whatsoever to type the URL walmart.horse into your web browser, but if you go there, you get pretty much exactly what you’d expect — a picture of a horse and a Walmart store.
Walmart is not amused at the use of its name on this site and has sent a cease-and-desist notice to its creator, Jeph Jacques, creator of the Questionable Content comic.
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In an e-mail to Ars Technica, Jacques describes the site as a “piece of postmodern Dadaism—nonsense-art using found objects, in this case publicly available images and the name of an megacorporation,” and explains that he intended to provoke the exact sort of response he’s received from Walmart. In his view, Walmart is contributing to the parodic nature of the walmart.horse concept by demanding that it be taken down.
“Claiming that walmart.horse defames the Walmart brand somehow is the highest possible satire, and the fact that this accusation came from Walmart itself is a most delicious piece of irony,” he writes.
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