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** This wasn't the first case of this happening either. He's made several pointed remarks (inside his 'episode fun facts') aimed at the Sam/Freddie fans in general, by pointing out an instance of Carly telling Freddie he was standing too close, with a note saying that some fans could "throw a parade" over it, and a couple of heavily sarcastic remarks about Sam/Freddie fans and how "he loved to hear about how he should write his show."

* In 2000, [[Aaron Sorkin]] spent some time on the Internet debating with the forum posters at [[Television Without Pity]]. It started with disagreements on how much of a given episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'' should be credited to Sorkin vs. other writers, but snowballed into Sorkin telling the posters that he basically counted their opinions as worthless. He then inserted strawmen into the "U.S. Poet Laureate" episode, casting TWoP and its posters as the "chain-smoking, mumu-wearing" denizens of "lemonlyman.com," where iron-fisted mods steer the conversations. For the entire history, including timeline, quotes and postmortem, [http://bitchkittie.blogspot.com/2006/02/long-back-story-of-aaron-sorkin-west.html go read this.]

* A rather classy subversion by ''[[Top Gear]]'' producer Andy Wilman on his recap of series 14 [http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2009/12/20/series-14-where-were-at/ here].

 

*** After the miscarriage bit, he included a joke about a "quiet black guy in a movie theater?" Fans complained about racism, so he put up a post about how the joke wasn't racist. He then edited the strip several times to make it less about race WITHOUT saying he was editing. Essentially censoring the strip to make his critics look like idiots. Whether he was wary of another dramatic comedy like the miscarriage backlash, or whether he simply didn't expect to get called out on a race joke, no one can say.

*** In one case, Buckley actually berated someone for DEFENDING him. A poster made a paragraph about how much he liked the comic and didn't understand why people who didn't like it didn't simply stop reading. It had a piece of fanart, credited with "I don't own this character, copyright of" yadayada. Buckley apparently either did not read or thought it was sarcastic, because he attacked the man for plagiarism, implying the threat of legal action.

** Short version for the lazy: Gabe and Tycho get accused of being rape apologists because they had a strip which had a character who mentioned having been raped as a set-up to a joke. Gabe gets mad at the accusation and reacts, with increasingly less ambiguous rape apology.<ref>Tycho ''also'' doesn't like the accusation, but keeps his mouth shut beyond the initial snarky "apology" because he thinks any attempt to actually defend himself will just make it worse, which might actually have been a viable strategy had his cohort not been making inflammatory remarks and attempting to cast detractors solely as humorless nancies looking for things to be offended about</ref> This only serves to enrage the offended parties further, which further provokes Gabe, all feeding into a vicious cycle stemming from the fact that neither party really gets where the other party is coming from, but thinks the other party understands them perfectly and just doesn't give a shit.

* Tarol Hunt, author of ''[[Goblins|Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes]]'', occasionally goes on [[The Rant]] to discuss some of the houseruled ''[[Dungeons & Dragons|D&D]]'' mechanics he uses in his webcomic. In [http://www.goblinscomic.com/the-axe-and-the-rope/ this one], he concludes with the classic line, "Hello, my name is Tarol Hunt and I have 24 years of near-constant practice arguing the physics of magic with hundreds of D&D players."

* Howard Tayler of ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' produced a fairly mild version a while ago [http://zoo.nightstar.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18525&start=0 here]. Short version: complaints about how long the story was "dragging on" elicited the response "If you're bored, leave. PLEASE. I'm telling the story I want to tell, and I'm telling it the way I want to tell it."

* Krazy Krow wrote one for ''[[Spinnerette]]'' which can be [http://krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/2011/10/05/10052011/ seen here], in response to negative feedback on chapter seven. However, he seemed to think it was about him using a recurring villain when most of the complaints were about how predictable and cliched the story ended up being.