It's an age old tale of Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf but draped in modern technology and running through the woods of copyright theft to grandma's house.
Artist Hidden Eloise was outraged when a friend informed her that they'd seen a rather poor copy of one of her images on products being sold by stationery giant Paperchase. She tweeted about it. People noticed.
Within 24 hours the handmade heroes of the Twitterverse came together to form a Big Bad Wolf-crushing Godzilla as news spread like tweeted wildfire.
The artist suggested that people supported her by contacting Paperchase and letting them know they weren't impressed. They did.
By lunchtime Amazon had removed the project from their listings, by teatime Paperchase had a statement on their contact page telling visitors they had bought the design 'in good faith' from an unnamed agency.
It didn't end there.
This really wasn't good enough for the handmade Godzilla. The Twitterverse kept right on tweeting, emails flew, The Independent wrote about it in the afternoon and this morning The Guardian had their say too.
Eventually Paperchase put up this statement from an agency called Gather No Moss. Paperchase also state "It is worrying that such an allegation can create such reaction."
Much of the craft and art world feel quite to opposite. It's heart-warming to see the little guys refusing to be trodden on.
Hidden Eloise tweets and blogs that she is currently in talks with both Paperchase and the design company. The Twitterverse holds its collective breath for the outcome.
Follow Hiddeneloise on Twitter to keep your eye on how the handmade Godzilla is doing.
Power to the Tweeple indeed.
