Charlie the Unicorn creator Jason Steele has given Warner Bros. a disapproving finger wag after a MultiVersus advert used audio from the short film without so much as a «pretty please» from the multi-billion dollar corporation.
In case you're not clued up on your 2000s internet lore, Charlie the Unicorn is a four-minute animated video featuring the titular horned horse as he ventures up Candy Mountain, only to have his kidney harvested by his fellow adventuring unicorns.
It's peak 2005 internet culture, popping off on Newgrounds before being reuploaded to YouTube and amassing almost 100 million views between two different uploads.
The short trailer, showing off the new Unicorndog skin for Reindog, was captioned «We're going to Candy Kingdom to get the new Unicorndog Variant, Charlie!» accompanied by audio from Steele's work.
He then quoted the post expressing his disappointment, writing: «MultiVersus is a game by Warner Bros, a company with an annual revenue of around 40 billion dollars.