Clive Palmer , an Australian billionaire often call theDonald Trump from Down Under , is threatening to sue YouTuber Friendly Jordies for hatchet job . The pop YouTube personality and comic , whose real name is Jordan Shanks , stake a video with the minacious alphabetic character he recently encounter from Palmer ’s attorney which , among other thing , claims that Palmer was smear because the YouTuber call him “ Fatty McFuckhead ” and a “ obtuse Humpty Dumpty . ”
Palmer , deserving an estimated $ 2.7 billion ( $ 4.09 billion Australian ) , also take issue with photoshopped prototype that Shanks has created for his videos , including a cartoon of Palmer ’s head on Homer Simpson , and another of Palmer ’s head on a baby . The baby in the photoshopped persona is being go for by President Donald Trump because shank said that Palmer look like the “ lovechild of Donald Trump and Big Kev . ” Big Kev was a pop entrepreneur in Australia whose face appeared oncleaning productsin the 2000s .
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Screenshot: (Jordan Shanks/YouTube)
Shanks posted a video toYouTubeon Monday , simply titled “ fatty , ” laying out the message of the varsity letter that he received from Palmer ’s lawyer . The letter takes issue with the times in which Shanks has call Palmer a “ crackpot , ” a “ nutty turd who pretends to be Australian , ” and “ a walk meme . ”
“ You do pull in that for a defamation allegation to be successful , it has to be proven I lowered your standing in the centre of the public ? ” Shanks enjoin in the 25 - minute picture take apart all the ways in which he conceive it ’s fundamentally impossible to actually defame Palmer .
As for Palmer being a “ walking meme , ” Shank direct out that Palmer even created a wandering TV game where the billionaire isliterally a walking meme . Shanks was n’t even being inflated .
Screenshot: (YouTube)
Shanks did offer a couple of apologies in the video , the first for receive a underage factual error unseasonable about a lawsuit that Palmer was involved in that turn out to be a civil rather than criminal lawsuit . Shanks also apologized in the fresh video for photoshopping Palmer to look like Homer Simpson , take down that his personality is much closer to Eric Cartman from Comedy Central ’s South Park .
The missive from Palmer ’s lawyer involve $ 500,000 as well as sound fee . Apparently the lawyer sent a keep up - up varsity letter that even demands the comic stop mention Palmer in any public capacity , according to the Australian YouTuber . But Shanks repeatedly state that he ’s not afraid of being sued because his generation does n’t have much to recede in the way of assets , unlike Palmer ’s multiplication . And as someone who ’s grown up on the net , he ’s just talk the language of the internet .
“ This Macbook ’s my momma , ” Shanks enounce . “ I ’ve been desensitize to the worked up demand of others , and as such I ’m your worst nightmare . I ’m a automaton with nothing to recede . ”
Graphic: (Jordan Shanks)
shank is now selling thymine - shirt on his website that say “ Clive Palmer is a Fatty McFuckhead ” and enounce that he ca n’t be sued because he put in very small text edition at the bottom of the shirts , “ in my opinion . ” The t - shirt come in bothcensoredanduncensoredversions . cannon ends his latest video with a montage of Australians saying that Clive Palmer is a “ Fatty McFuckhead . ”
Gizmodo emailed Shanks to require if he had been served with a lawsuit yet or if he ’d only gotten a letter state that Palmer signify to sue . stem respond with the email below :
It ’s an intent to sue . He want me to come to “ reasonable amends ” ie sign an agreement to never utter about him publicly ever again .
It ’s now up to Fatty McFuckhead if he wants to take it further . Seeing as he mention litigation as his hobby in spirit ( what an exceptional human being . Using his wealthiness for the noble turn of philanthropy….for himself )
I wo n’t be surprised if he does .
An e-mail to Clive Palmer ’s movement site was not at once returned . But we ’ll be restrain an center on this eccentric . If anything , it seems like a keen example of theStreisand Effect . Because now more people than ever know that Clive Palmer is a Fatty McFuckhead .
Update , 10:05 am ET : Updated with input from Shanks and the terms of the possible causa .
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