— Again with the Gawking —

Posted by Ringmaster at February 9, 2007 05:09 PM

Oh, fer Jeebus's sake.

Gawker.com has, for the third time now, lifted yet another WYSIWYG picture by our web/graphics guru emeritus Dan (see the original here). I think he sums up our feelings best:

"Seriously, Gawker, stop lifting my photos without a credit. We at WYSIWYG would be delighted to let you use pictures of our stellar cast, but a little tip o' the hat is just the proper thing to do, especially since so many of you have been in the show. You know, in the show that's happening again next week, like the one from which you stole the picture, that you might have even given a tiny plug."

On the reals, y'all. We love us some Gawker, and members of their past and present staff have even been performers at WYSIWYG shows -- heck, one of their own is even performing at next week's show -- but this is bad Internet behavior.

Comments (2)

I thought Sicha was back on the Gawker block...surely he'd slap someone for you...

Posted by: Helen at February 15, 2007 11:50 AM

Yeah, I thought he was too, but maybe that hasn't happened yet. Anyway, it turns out that there's a HUGE kerfuffle going on with similar behavior by Consumerist.com, another Gawker Media site, so maybe this will prompt better behavior by Gawker.com. I hope.