Yesterday, I received a fairly threatening e-mail from Photobucket telling me that I'd apparently violated an infringement of a celebrity’s trademarks and Right to Publicity, and they had removed the photo. They further warned me that if I made a habit of doing that, they'd cancel my account.
*me shaking
They didn't tell me which celebrity it was, though, and I was curious. I wasted a lot of time combing through my dozens of Photobucket pages looking for a missing photo until I finally realized that I'd never find it that way. Therefore, I made a return to Listverse and began looking through the Daily Quotes until I found one with an "Image Deleted" square where a photo should be. I found it.
It was Chuck Norris.
The post was made March 10, 2009.
Are you fucking kidding me? Chuck Norris?
As if the man wasn't ridiculous enough, he's now tackling the Internet. Good luck censoring the Internet, goofbag.
And I love your new photos, by the way, you old fat fuck.
LMAO!! Of all people .... I mean, the man is an internet legend. WTF?
ReplyDeleteNice to know that Chuck's people are scouring the internet to keep us all safe from indiscriminate posters of his picture. If I'm reading your story correctly, and I'd like to think that I am, then someone who works in a publicity office, comes in to work at 8, sits at their desk and for 8 hours google searches 'Chuck Norris' and prepares lists of image 'violations' for some cut rate para-law douchebag to write letters to.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I didn't know 'Mastery in Asshole-ish Behavior with a minor in Complete Waste of a Human Life' was a degree program. But when you go to this PR firm, they check your credentials.
Remember folks, yours truly has chosen a career path in one of the most fake, banal and ridiculous ways to make money - I'm a television producer. So you know when I recognize someone being an asshole, you have to trust me that I know what I'm talking about. I work with towering examples all day long. A person who types in whatever D list celeb or former B list action star from 30 years ago in to a fucking search engine all day long is a 100 percent, high grade, USDA choice, blue ribbon ass crater.
Safe to say, some people have way too much free fucking time on their hands.
And by the way, as long as we're on the subject. I never, NEVER, got that whole 'Chuck Norris is so tough . . . .(fill in the blank)' thing.
Not that anyone cares, but I really am slowly losing interest in Listverse.
ReplyDeleteShocking!
Not really. I used to get off in telling people I was one of the first commenters/posters whatever. Those early days were a lot of fun. I don't know what happened, but it no longer holds the same interest for me.
I felt like we had a pretty cool community over there at one time. It was an absolute must to get in there and witness the daily dust up or laugh fest. But lately, I think the stupid have taken over.
Oh sure, I've had my volcanic blow ups with Randall, got called out by Tri for berating a noob, and was impersonated more than once. And of course when the warrrr dude left, we all were worse off because of it. But the commentary for the past few months has been . . . boring and just plain not holding my interest.
I used to pride myself in making the most tedious subject interesting by making off the wall commentary but it just seems like it ain't worth it. I was never apart of something on the web that was so exciting and fun as that early community was. We all knew each other and it was fun, the grudges were somewhat manageable, and the lists were interesting.
Folks, it ain't all that anymore.
Hey Warrrr, I use a similar process for the daily quote except I don't I don't use Photobucket. I'm curious if we use the same sites. I use: FamousBirthdays.net, FamousBirthdays.com, Born-Today.com, BrainyQuote.com and for picture I usually just use Wikipedia.
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