I believe obtvse at the time of the dispute was more directly ripping off svbtle than it is now, but I could be misremembering.
The unintentional pretentiousness of svbtle was amusing at the time and I can remember the urge to create a clone and replace the dammned kudos hover trap with a fontBomb[1].
a svbtle page: http://benyu.org/net-worth
obtvse page: http://jackdempsey.me/migrating-to-obtvse
wp-svbtle: http://wp-svbtle.themeskult.com/
I believe obtvse at the time of the dispute was more directly ripping off svbtle than it is now, but I could be misremembering.
The unintentional pretentiousness of svbtle was amusing at the time and I can remember the urge to create a clone and replace the dammned kudos hover trap with a fontBomb[1].
1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208102