Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

well, that and his cloud of bizarro twitter followers i guess. you have a point. but it is REALLY fun...

must be cool to be an IT tech bro firing off hostile tweets all day about actual creative people who aren't doing anything particularly wrong. he has a lot of bennies in life

take away the bennies and this man crumbles

b-b-b-bennies! bennies and the otts!
[someone's probably made that joke already]

there's a universe where using a public enemy review that happened to run the day of the darren wilson non-indictment as an opportunity to dry-rub your ian cohen beef is less "tone-deaf" than someone calling said review "well-timed," but I'm not sure where it is. probably in hell

otm it is def in some corner of hell

i'll give him the benefit of the doubt that having a mid-life crisis can be sorta painful. it might be time to let the dream of the 90's go, ott. there's more important things

Yeah! Fuck old people. They don't understand us kids!!!!

the dream of the 90s is alive in ottland

i guess i don't see ott's current persona as being one bit different than 10 yrs ago

meet the new ott, same as the old ott

a few months ago he temporarily deleted his twitter and permanently deleted his videos and a FAN re-uploaded a bunch of them to youtube

sorry that was me

no one understands our love

Gamergate comparison otm, although: this bag of trash typed good typing about female musicians, once upon a time

I mean, in the "reminiscent of Cat Power" heyday of the early 2000s Ott was pretty great in how he covered this or that.

G'bye, tho, tbh

the ironic thing is his largely /mu/ fan base overlaps significantly with gaters so he is constantly fielding questions from them about how he HAS IT ALL WRONG (being against)

Didn't know what to do when he retweeted a post of mine last week so I played Malkmus.

ILX should hypothetically love the Ott: Dude is an A+ troll, hates corny indie fuxxors, his twitter feed is like this popular thread a lot of the time.

OK, dude is a little hung up on pitchfork minutae, but we're NEVER like that [*links to ILX posts about "why don't they show the individual writers lists"]

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

will nvr 4get the day whiney held the mirror up to us all..............and we saw the mosnter within

U mean we saw the monster and ott was us

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4uzGXwwUG4

whiney I think you know full well the reasons you listed (re: how he's similar to ILX) are not the real reasons why he gets lampooned and hated on. come on.

OMG did he offer you some bennies have you been bought YOU SELLOUT

the last time Ott posted here he made a real Tanuki of himself

i thought this guy deleted his whole internet presence, why couldn't it stay deleted.

the real reasons why he gets lampooned and hated on

name your reasons why he is so bad & hated

What the world needs now
Is A+ trolls

I started paying less attention to Ott when he started spouting unforgivable classist and queerphobic bullshit on another message board, and stopped paying attention entirely when he started going toe-to-toe with whoever and whatever on Twitter with the same ""rhetoric"". This was a while ago so my points of reference are cold. Has he changed or does he still get drunk and tilt-at-windmills and bully girls and queers online? But then I have no taste for "A+ trolls"

Whine ott?

Otta give em a chance

"the ultimate fuckin bro shit stoner lame-ass jam band battle of the bands music smith fucking stratocaster velvet fucking top hat fucking scarf-wearing paisley bullshit ever"

- an actual quote from chris ott in a shallow rewards video

various xposts to brad - I've read almost all of this thread, and the offending interview/video, and gone through a handful of the older videos...are you seriously asking me to list those things like jfc come on

but ok sure: vaguely sexist/creepy statements about women who write about music, his bullshit truth to power aesthetic, obsession with a culture that doesn't exist and prob never did, numerous ad hominem attacks on people unrelated to their opinions, etc etc etc was this some sort of test? fucks sake.

vaguely is an understatement like a huge one actually

wasn't brad just joking

Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

welp, there I go not knowing an ILX in joke. egg, meet face. I'm newish here.

my apologies.

haha I had assumed you were an oldtime poster with a new name and was trying to work out who wasn't accounted for.

nah, I'm not a sock. (I learned most of the terminology quick but def not everything or would've known brad's statement as a joke)

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

"They’re angry because I’m calling them out on the questions that they refuse to ask. They’re complicit in trying to make money out of talking about fucking pop music"

the call is coming from inside the house

People making money from popular things---does anyone else know about this?

lol that budweiser video is so good

I started paying less attention to Ott when he started spouting unforgivable classist and queerphobic bullshit on another message board, and stopped paying attention entirely when he started going toe-to-toe with whoever and whatever on Twitter with the same ""rhetoric"".

feels like a huge bunch of the young male critic contingent from a few years back are/were really into this Critic-As-Pretend-Bully thing, like they're gonna paste you one if you betray some imagined cause. confidentially though I don't think any of these guys are really very good at fighting

people with good dental plans more willing to take a punch in the mouth

glad he blew the lid off budgate. beer companies giving away beer to college kids and money to rock bands... who knew?

he truly is tireless in his vigilance

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