hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

i still read kotaku too but it's extremely terrible. every story is like a book report on steam comment threads or streamer drama. polygon is even worse, they recap comic book storylines and give them newsy headlines--"batman's parents are dead anymore," "dr strange bought a puppy" etc

nu gawker is occasionally entertaining, kills a few minutes here and there.

We don't talk about FleshBot.

The Vane was the one I was thinking about recently...was that the name? Of the Gawker weather blog? God it was good.

the vane!

haha! honestly that's such a good name it deserves the content

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No prob.

haha

i find their focus on celebrity gossip (like even moreso than Gawker 1.0) dull af and when they try to put on a more serious face, it results in something like this: https://www.gawker.com/celebrity/its-time-for-a-jared-leto-reckoning-morbius

shitty angle for pedophilia allegations - like if he was somehow more talented, it would be ok? lol ok

Eww why does Gawker look like a shitty myspace page?

i want to see Gawker's Top 9 friends

Literally everything I needed to know about this crowd

This poured out of me... https://t.co/iZz8ezINLH

— George Civeris (@georgeciveris) October 4, 2022

"By now you’re probably heard that the Try Guys"

Not sure if they're trying to say:

"You've probably heard" or
"You're probably hard"

"by now you don't need to know anything more about"

This has been floating around today:

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp

Note the number of Kinja quirks.

Why is it such a big deal that he had an extramarital affair? It’s certainly not a good thing to do — disastrous to his family — but it shouldn’t affect his ability to host a youtube show for idiots.

Indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS7HXxy3_2c

Ok lol. Interesting that SNL is a voice of sanity here.

Although it seems like there was a ton of backlash to this sketch, which is interesting.

I can’t help but feel that this sort of moral outrage is disingenuous. Like people are pretending that they can’t imagine someone acting less than perfect for even one second of their life.

this sort of moral outrage is disingenuous

why are you even bringing this up weeks later?

Thread was bumped and i read the link from (i see now, squinting) october 4th

fair enough. in any case, this is not the best venue for your outrage or scorn of such imo

The interesting thing to me days after this topic has faded from the cultural hive mind is how crazy that comment section is in the snl youtube link. I am not really up on being a participant online, so I find a lot of modern stan culture baffling or skin-crawling. I get the same vibe from the comments on all gas no brakes vids, where there's this effusive landslide of indistinguishable praise for "true journalism". How could people be so invested in this that it reads like it got botted out?

Maybe they are bots who knows.

It probably got posted to the Try Guys subreddit or something.

treeship, can I get an apology for detailing my Kinja quirks post? 😂

s/detailing/derailing

I don't know what that is for or how it's relevant

anyway this try guys thing is annoying AF, I have never once heard about these guys before this situation, and I don't think most people have either. the reactions to that sketch were fucking unhinged because it seems as though there is an entire demographic out there for whom adultry is tantamount to rape. but I also can't tell who these idiots are because they seems to only exist in youtube comments and on twitter.

Recovering incels — that’s what I meant to imply with my Reddit reference.

The problem with having a job that revolves around your personality (and this guy’s personality revolved around how much he loved his wife) is that when you act in a way that’s discordant with how you sell yourself, fans feel betrayed and defrauded. That’s why their fans are OTT reacting, I think.

this is why i never tell anyone i love my wife

https://mashable.com/article/snl-try-guys-skit

corporate HR indoctrination is a helluva drug

He definitely was in the wrong, and I don’t think the other guys were out of line in firing him for having an undisclosed relationship with an employee. From their standpoint as stakeholders in the company their reaction makes sense. What I don’t get is what akm talked about — the suggestion that he is a monster and anyone who suggests otherwise is enabling monstrosity. The job of society is to throw stones, always be throwing.

i’m sad that i’ve now read enough to understand what this is about

Social media strongly amplifies the witch hunt instinct too.

corporate HR indoctrination is a helluva drug

Aspiring bootlickers take heart!

that mashable article about gave me diarrhea. awful writing

Meantime over at Defector, their second annual report is out and basically they are still succeeding pretty damn well, essentially building on what they've already done and looking ahead with caution to their next year (given larger economic feelings etc.) -- worth a read.

good for them!

that mashable article about gave me diarrhea. awful writing

― stank viola (Neanderthal), Sunday, October 16, 2022 11:45 AM (one week ago)

it's awful, but (and I'm not sure the esteem in which people hold mashable, I've certainly never seen it as a serious outlet) to me it's just a symptom of the click economy, the need to churn something, anything out for 50 bucks without competent editing

To be honest, I was kind of excited to watch it. I expected a few jokes at ex-Try Guy Ned Fulmer's expense, really illustrating how he'd jeopardized his marriage, career, friendships, and the business he'd built over the past five years.

How could a sketch do this effectively?

yeah the "best" part of that article was when she tried to write a sketch comedy bit.......

“It meant nothing! Please just talk to me!” *cue laugh track*

rip again

Awwww

Where are you seeing this?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-to-shut-down-for-second-time-in-nearly-seven-years-editor-leah-finnegan-says

Bummer. I enjoyed reading their millennial cinephiles (Fran Hoepfner, Olivia Craighead).

Thank you, there wasn’t anything on the site or their Twitter. That’s shit.

mixed feelings on this as it’s necessary to have sites like these esp these days but as someone who really liked Gawker 1.0 (yes I know they did some fucked up things), I found this iteration disappointing for the most part, just felt like hastily-written thinkpieces, which I know Gawker 1.0 did a lot of that too but it didn’t feel as….desperate? idk

New iteration had some interesting articles, even if I never really liked the layout. It was far better than the gawker.tv/clickbait the original site was before the end. I felt exactly the same about old gawker as you. Read it every day (and was a gold-starred commenter pre kinja!) back in the early-mid noughties.

i had so much fun working with so many great, smart, funny writers. if you owe me a draft i’m really sorry but they cut off my email access lmao https://t.co/zqKSEfG5cf

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) February 1, 2023

Ultimately I don’t think there was a lot of good writing in it, and the use of the name Gawker never seemed like much more than a convenient steal. Fatalest flaw: bad headline writing. Scratching my head trying to think of a single memorable piece… Brandy Jensen’s concurrent Defamer piece on Jack Reacher was better than anything I read in nu-Gawker.