"In many ways, technology—especially consumer-driven technology—has been striving for the same thing as cartoonists for years now. Simpler, smaller, more streamlined. Minimalist. Removing as much of the object as possible, leaving only the key components (in technology’s case, the interface, the screen). Steve Jobs led the way for elegant and simple device design, and it’s a beautiful thing. But a cartoonist might reach a point where representing something in a super-simplified style when the object itself is already super-simplified becomes increasingly difficult. Let’s take a look at a few examples."<br />
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Hilarious, and true.

The Oatmeal has discovered pretty much all his content copied to Funnyjunk.com.<br />
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"And it's not just FunnyJunk.com, there's a small army of sites out there like this whose business model runs this way. Another one is DamnLOL.com, who managed to rack up 670,000 likes on Facebook by hosting stolen content and covering their website with 'like this on Facebook' buttons. It seems like this 'Host-stolen-content-until-someone-complains-meanwhile-earning-ad-revenue' business model is booming right now. It's basically the new Ebaumsworld."