Another angry Harry Potter fan…
Looks like we’re not going to share an audience with obsessed Harry Potter fans any time soon:
Well, thanks for ruining the ending for me, dickhead. I was slightly appalled at how you wheedle your readers for money, but slipping in HP spoilers without warning earns your bookmark the death penalty. It doesn’t matter - I’ve got a bunch more for funnier webcomics whose creators don’t feel the need to shit on their readership on a regular basis.
The funny thing is, the person bookmarked us for a reason, whatever reason…. now because of a Harry Potter spoiler that was literally everywhere online, we’re suddenly an unfunny webcomic who shits on it’s readers regularly….. it’s true what they say. You can’t please them all. Our good friend and Yirmumah fan and insider, Brandon J. Carr is a BIG Harry Potter fan… and I think we spoiled it for him too.. but he wasn’t all playah hatin’ on us…
In the end, we’re doing what we like to do here, and our readership grows each day. So am I sorry to lose someone? Naw… hell, i put this stuff up for free everyday, I put a TON of work into it, and you’re paying nothing to read it. If it were someone who was an actual FAN… yeah, I’d be sad to see em go, and I’m sure if they were a fan, they’d be back. I’m sorry to inform you though, you’re not fit to be reading our webcomic. And like Martha Stewart says now… “I’m sorry, you just don’t fit in.” — I just CANNOT please everyone. It’s a losers game.
“wheedle our readers for money”? NinjaWha??. Sure we have/had a tipjar, and raised money to help Bob get a computer, but hell, that guy isn’t paid either! And it’s the first time since 2003 we’ve EVER done such a thing. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, or “slightly appalled” by, you farging nitwit. No one is paying us to do this… and even when we had NO tipjar button, people were e-mailing us, and posting on the old blog asking why we didn’t have one. And believe me, we’re really appreciative of the fact that ANYONE donates or buys anything at all. Period. Anyone that thinks we’re beggers or whatever, go figgy-figgy-fuck yirself. This is a call to anyone who is even slightly offended or appalled… seriously, LOSE OUR BOOKMARK. Forget we existed….. If you can.
To everyone who actually reads our work and supports it, either with past donations, buying fake bricks, telling a friend about our strip, or even just quietly reading and commenting…. DUDE, you people rock. And like many Yirmumah fans can attest, we’d bend over backward for you. You’ll never know a tighter nit group of fans who would help one another out. You know, we may not be the BEST webcomic ever (yet) , but we sure do have the best readers.
16,483 unique visitors yesterday. I guess today that would make it what? 16,482 thanks to stinking Harry Potter.
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September 22nd, 2005 at 11:35 pm
I vote to get on top of even more spoilers for the express purpose of pissing off people like this.
September 23rd, 2005 at 12:39 am
First time posting *crowd cheers in my head* cool comic, glad that folks still get pissed off over something very imaginary or implied. Look forward to the comics with held breath.
Would love a brick but I’m as broke as a hobo living under a freeway overpass right now. Kepe up the goodness that is Yirmumah.
September 23rd, 2005 at 12:49 am
Ok so here’s the thing… why get all pissed off when a website puts a spoiler about a new book or show on THEIR site. Anyone who enjoys a show or book should know, accept, and understand that there is always the possibility that as they peruse the web they may stumble on to a spoiler… warned or not by the people who write the site content. If someone can’t handle that then until they finish the book or have watched the show they need to stay away from any form of media where a spoiler might possibly show up. Seems a simple concept to me at least.
September 23rd, 2005 at 1:34 am
I luv ya. I just don’t live somewhere I’d wanna have some goodies shipped to me. Once I have…lets say…a doorstep that doesn’t face the busiest road in town I’ll be buying swag. Wonderful, fantastic swag. Swag. I’ll say it one last time for good measure. Swwaagg
September 23rd, 2005 at 1:35 am
I just made a second bookmark to make up for the lost one.
September 23rd, 2005 at 1:40 am
Dude I’m a french HP mega-fan and I’m not soo pissed off by your little prank…
I bought my copy of HP6 the 16th and the 18th I had read it… So your little joke wasn’t a spoiler for me. I even found it very funny…
For those who are whinning NOW that Yurmumah has a “Dumbeldore dies” joke I reply:
You had more thant 2 months to read the f…ing book. Don’t complain now for spoilers.
By the way DJ, Bob, you fucking rock. You’re one of my favorite webcomics and I hope you’ll stay like that as long as I live so I can laugh a little every morning before going to work!
Bon courage!
September 23rd, 2005 at 2:20 am
Dude, I love your comic so much. I came across it a few months ago by random chance, and went to the archives. After the first few comics, I was completely hooked. I have been a returning fan ever since. There are always gonna be some douche bags out there who don’t agree with you about something stupid. Keep making the awesome comics that I laugh about daily. You guys have a unique style and sense of humor here, and it’s a good thing! Fanboys are a weird breed.
September 23rd, 2005 at 2:46 am
I’ve just been rereading some of your old work, (old = one year ago). If this whining, joker is getting you down, you could always write about the cutest little bunny saying…
16,000+ unique hits in one day? As Darth Vader, (who is also Luke and Leia’s father), would say : “Impressive.”
There are many businesses that *wish* they could get that many hits in one day. And you’re doing this for free.
September 23rd, 2005 at 4:07 am
(sings) “DJ Coffman is an asshole…”
If you don’t like Yirmumah, don’t read it. How much simpler can that be? Save the whining for your LiveJournal. In the rest of the big, bad world (even the online big, bad world) be a goddamned grown-up. Suck it up and go read something else.
There are plenty of webcomics I can’t stand. Most of them involve anime artwork. Do I go writing emails to these hard-working people telling them how much they suck? God, no. I stopped saying “You’re stupid, you big doo-doo head!!” when I was about seven years old.
(Okay, nine, but I was angry!)
Harry Potter spoilers…I scoff at this Nerd Kryptonite! One thing I don’t get, though, are those “Bigfoot and Tiki” strips. I just can’t figure those things out.
September 23rd, 2005 at 7:27 am
I think the only reason that person was pissed off about the spoiler is because they didn’t read it within six hours of buying it at midnight, like the rest of us [potternerds] did.
It’s their own damn fault.
September 23rd, 2005 at 7:53 am
While we’re on the subject, I would like to point out how much of a fuss Potter Heads make out of spoilers. If you just say the words “I bought the book” three or four people in a crowd will clamp their hands to their ears and run away screaming “Don’t tell me, I don’t want to know yet!” and anything ANYTHING is considered a spoiler. If you accidentally let it slip that Harry Potter DOESN’T die at the end of the book, they will wail and moan, as if they expected that the there was a chance the next book would be called “Hermoiney, Ron, And Whoever the Hell is Left”
September 23rd, 2005 at 8:49 am
I would kinda consider myself a Potterphile, got the book the day it came out and purposefully avoided all sources of media that might spoil it for me for as long as it took me to read it…
Lemme see…that was about, SIX FUCKING HOURS. And here we are two and a half months later and some cockmonkey is bitching that you “ruined” it for them? Aside from the obvious points, those being that they would have had to go WAYYYYYY back in your blog or forum posts to find said spoiler what kind of Orange-helmeted-short-bus-riding-retard can’t have a 600 page CHILDREN’S NOVEL finished in 2 months?
On another note, anyone who didn’t have the foresight to see that Dumbledore (or another MAJOR character) was going to die in this one is just plain stupid. Not one much for the foreshadowing, are we?
There are those of us here that realise that DJ is not here to “shit all over” us. He’s a rabble rouser, and that has done nothing but increase his hits over the last six months. So the loss of YOU, whoever you are, really isn’t any skin of his ass…or anyone elses who can take a fucking joke, for that matter.
September 23rd, 2005 at 8:57 am
To simplify it all. “Fuck them if they can’t take a joke.”
That rabid fan is one of the many reasons that the Brick of Silence exists.
That might even be a good ad for the special Convention Edition.
September 23rd, 2005 at 9:00 am
don’t forget… SNAPE - our very own Alan Rickman - pwn’d that filthy old Dumb-le-bore n00b. he obviously hadn’t been practicing his micros, so he got pwn’d, like a n00b. lawl.
September 23rd, 2005 at 9:07 am
And then of course there are those of us who come here regularly TO BE shit on.
Or.. is that just me?
September 23rd, 2005 at 9:17 am
That’s just you. But nowadays, that could be considered healthy.
September 23rd, 2005 at 10:09 am
Ohhhh Tek,
I just ate corn, cashews and toamtoes…I’m ready for you baby!!
September 23rd, 2005 at 11:04 am
Screw the cry baby. He probably dress up like he goes to school there and spanks it to the thought of HP. Definately a Brick of Silence candidate.
September 23rd, 2005 at 3:46 pm
wow what a loser. someone needs to hunt that fag done and beat his ass up and shove his harry potter book in his mouth, im a harry potter fan and i read the book like 5 days before i ever saw that spoiler.
September 23rd, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Uhh…wow, I guess there is a downside to having a hot property like HP. But seriously “Dude, you rock”.
September 24th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
DJ, I think you saved this kid’s life. If he got that upset reading the spoiler about Dumbeldore dying imagine how distraught he would have become had he not been prepared and read it in the book. He’d go straight to the garage and drink a quart of bleach to end it all.
See there, Potterboy, DJ does care about you. Now apologize to DJ right now or your mom won’t get my pipe tonight.