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I hate that guy (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could you link to more information about this?

[–] can 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He's famously against all commercialization of the strip and I think he'd feel this similarly devalues it.

One source.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That seems to be mostly about monetization and commodification, which should already be absent from shitposting.

[–] can -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I get that but I respect Watterson too much to assume his stance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think he’d feel this similarly devalues it.

I respect Watterson too much to assume his stance.

Well… which is it? Do you respect him too much to assume his stance or are you assuming he’d feel this similarly devalues it?

[–] can 4 points 7 months ago

I mean I don't want to assume he'd be alright with it therefore I won't use it. Nothing I said was definitive, just what I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Well somebody should pop over to Chagrin Falls and ask him

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you mean "this" stance, maybe?

[–] can 2 points 7 months ago

I suppose that would also have worked, but no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Here is a wiki source (insert error bars here) discussion of his stance on his work being officially licensed. He thought that use of his work outside of a comic strip would cheapen the value of the strip itself. This was frusterating as a child (who wouldn't want a fucking Hobbes plushy) but now later I can see that it was at the very least a very defensible choice. Compare how people feel about C&H vs something that was commercialized to death like Garfield. Anyway, hope it's useful.