Online lawsuit threats are a dime a dozen, but always amusing.

Chuck sucks the soy out of everything.
The obviously satirical website, Faking Star Wars, offered up a T-Shirt lampooning Chuck Wendig’s tendancy to block anyone on his Twitter account who disagrees with him, or who has a critical response to his public comments. Faking Star Wars is run by two hilarious chaps, Willybobo, and Link Voxmillian. They offered this satirical T-Shirt lampooning Chuck through their online teepublic shop.
Chuck’s previous unhinged antics can be read about here, here, here, here, and here.
The T-Shirt in question had a picture of Chuck Wendig, which is available on his public Twitter profile, and the caption read “If you’re not blocked by Chuck Wendig…you’re doing something wrong.”
Chuck didn’t much care for this satirical T-Shirt, and so he took to Twitter to intimidate the T-Shirt merchants into taking down the fine product like a petty despot.
Aaaaand now I guess I have to lawyer up. What fun! Shirt with my likeness posted to harass me by Star Wars “fans” @LinkVoximilian and @fakingstarwars. I mean, really, guys? @TeePublic, be advised, they’re profiting off my likeness, which is against your submission guidelines. https://t.co/51H7JdvSR8
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018
And then @fakingstarwars does comments like this, which are extra-gross: https://t.co/pcpUm7ycmZ
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018
Holy smokes I’ve been unblocked! If you’d like I will remove the product.
— Link Voximilian (@LinkVoximilian) June 5, 2018
Yes, I’ve unblocked. I’m screenshooting everything. I’ve contacted a lawyer. You would probably be best served by removing it ASAP.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018
I know they’ve already sold some too as part of this “monetizing harassment” campaign. pic.twitter.com/ldlXutX3pU
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018
Chuck’s loyal followers were ready to volunteer their expert legal help.
tbh you should go after them with all the legal firepower you can
— sarah 🚀 (@SarahDemp) June 5, 2018
If my lawyer advises it, then that’s the plan.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018
My dad has done quite a bit of work in copyright/fair use law. Let me know if your attorney would like to be put in touch. I can see them trying to use the “fair use” defense in this case.
— A Tweet Too Far 🐓🌸☘️☀️ (@chickenboo23) June 5, 2018
Confusion filled their tiny progressive pea-brains, as they struggled to comprehend satire.
what in the EVERLOVING FUCK is wrong with people.
— sarah 🚀 (@SarahDemp) June 5, 2018
I wish I knew.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018
It has been far outweighed by the awesome people I’ve met — this isn’t most fans, it’s just a verrrrry noisy contingent of shitbirds. But thank you!
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018
The “culture jamming” crowd was thoroughly disgusted.
This is so gross
— Bria 🌈✨ (@chaosbria) June 5, 2018
It really is.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018
Chuck himself, seemed to have his own legal expertise.
Isn’t this targeted harassment?
— DPL (@Gamileo) June 5, 2018
It is.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) June 5, 2018
Unfortunately, the hollow intimidation worked, placing everyone who sells satirical T-Shirts in jeopardy.
Looking forward to @TeePublic reply. Allowing themselves to be used to monetize harassment can’t be a good business model. I hope they cancel the sale & don’t ship but they need a more rapid response to these issues.
— zennie (@zennie_fic) June 5, 2018
This design has been removed.
— TeePublic Support (@TeePublicHelp) June 5, 2018
Fortunately, the bullying didn’t affect Faking Star Wars’ fantastic sense of humor.
Sorry you have to deal with this ridiculousness.
— Scissorpunch-Adi-Mundi (@stevemac79) June 5, 2018
Thanks, but we’re hanging in there.
— Willybobo (@fakingstarwars) June 5, 2018
You’re so thirsty to be relevant.
— Ryan Brady (@BradyInAZ) June 5, 2018
Snowflakes were triggered by the apparent lack of a “report button” that they could frantically press.
Can’t believe @TeePublic doesn’t have a report button. Ridiculous.
— Hayden Joseph Noble (@11Parsecs) June 5, 2018
TeePublic is notorious for not caring. I’ve had several (SEVERAL) artist friends find their work on their. And, it is very hard to hold anyone to task for intellectual property issues on there.
— M.M. Schill (@mm_schill) June 5, 2018
FYI – we took the design down. You’re always free to email us at legal@teepublic.com
— TeePublic Support (@TeePublicHelp) June 5, 2018
So here’s the deal.
Chuck Wendig is a public figure. Speaking publicly on Twitter. He’s a well known writer for the world’s largest IP in cinematic history, Star Wars. This makes him fair game for satire and parody. Yes, that’s fair use.
The First Amendment protects satire and parody as a form of free speech and expression.
Additionally, Faking Star Wars altered the original image, therefore changing its inherent meaning. The work by Faking Star Wars qualifies as parody in the three areas that courts look at:
It doesn’t get much more obvious than being sold by a company named “Faking Star Wars.”
The entirety of the original image was not used. Only a cropping of Chuck’s soy face was used. Additionally, the publicly available image that Faking Star Wars used was altered so as to change its inherent meaning. Some people might call that “culture jamming.”
It would be extremely difficult to prove in a court of law, that people won’t buy Chuck Wendig’s books because of Faking Star Wars’ satirical T-Shirt.
Can you imagine how Chuck would react to Donald Trump suing The Daily Show for use of his likeness for profit?
Chuck Wendig suing either Faking Star Wars or Teepublic, would be equally as ridiculous as Jerry Falwell suing Hustler Magazine. And of course it’s equally as petty too.
I respectfully request that Teepublic defy these bullies and restore the satirical T-Shirt to Faking Star Wars’ shop. I encourage my readers to do the same respectfully.
Let Chuck stomp his feet and flap his arms like the toddler he is. He’s probably just angry that he can’t put his hair up in a man-bun anyway.

Dirty Harry must have one heck of a lawsuit brewing.
Fans who may have been blocked by Chuck’s Twitter account, but who would still like to respond to Chuck’s public statements and intimidation tactics with feedback, can respectfully contact him through his website, his Facebook account, his Instagram account, his tumblr account, his Flickr account, his Google+ account, his MySpace account, or his email address, terribleminds [at] gmail [dot] com. You can also comment on his blog, or at his YouTube Channel.
And here we have this member of the people-soy-kind go at it again. Are we sure nobody stole his meds?
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https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/question-unauthorized-use-of-photo-28285.html
The use of his picture on the t-shirt is clearly illegal.
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Well, then Joe Don Baker has one heck of a case against MST3K.
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