When cartoonistZach Weinerdiscovered that NOM ( an anti - gay marriage lobbying group ) had appropriated one of his funnies as a hotlink on its website , he dismiss back in the simplest , apt style he could . Hechanged the imageto this .
Weiner manage to ferment yesterday’sSaturday Morning Breakfast Cerealpanel into a rainbow fleur-de-lis and the following quote from the Declaration of Independence , but only on NOM ’s website :
“ We hold these truths to be self - manifest , that all men are created equal . ”
The SMBC homepage still showed the original comic , which plainly NOM had interpreted as somehow anti - gay rights :
Before NOM was able-bodied to hit the post , the change ram enough traffic to take down the entire site .
Was Weiner able-bodied to effect much variety in the brief time his flock invaded NOM ’s shores ? It ’s easy to say no , of course not , this was just a giddy prank . But Weiner believes otherwise :
There seems to be this idea out there that natural process through the Internet has no important gist … Well , today , I probably got a message of par to over 100,000 mass , among them penis of the other side . This coevals fights in a novel way , but we campaign just as hard .
The takeaway ? The internet ’s not just for kittehs and meme ( although those are not bad too ! ) . It ’s a powerful tool , where a silly prank can carry a lot of power . [ TWWviaTDW ]
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