Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

xp irl lols at that

man if i was a sentient food truck that could type that'd be kinda dope, honestly

i blocked him bc i didn't feel like having it go on for much longer but i'm sure y'all can see his replies even tho they dont show up for me
https://twitter.com/liamchgreen/status/542521014736125952

always look forward to Whiney's handwavey quasi-defences of this guy every time someone notices him being a sociopathic piece of shit

― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, I just think he's a funny internet personality and it's really befuddling watching a bunch of people who post all day to a zing-centric, belly-button-gazing, nit-picky, narc-of-small-diff music, corny-indie-fuxx-hating message board clown a guy for "caring" and being a meanie to indie rock personalities.

also i said this initially before he even replied to me, stemming from the issue that renewed our interest in ott-trolling
https://twitter.com/liamchgreen/status/542520243961094145

immature on my part to stoop to his level, obvs, but i was really annoyed, and as stated previously, rum.

i think ott is a total dick but tbh i am happy he exists, he is hilarious and those videos he used to do are tremendous

sloth, you've really never eaten at a food truck?

Whiney's right that the pious zingery of an ilxor isn't far removed from a self-righteous twitter troll.

Lol at trying to defend ott by bringing that up though

Ott's thinking is in keeping with the Gamergate "righteous troll" approach - any amount of misanthropy, bullying and general obnoxiousness is valid if you believe yourself a warrior for a noble cause.

― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 7:12 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

tbf this describes 99% of humans

xxp lol i havent! i never remember when the supposedly good ones are posted up near my office and they dont really come to the neighborhood in the city where i actually live often

also don't quite understand how that works as a zing about "hipsters" unless he thinks clover represents all food trucks

LOOK INTO THE MIRROR GUYS

I am but all I see is a food truck

are we human or are we food truck?

we are marshall food truck

corny-indie-fuxx-hating

he's a corny indie fuck who hates corny indie fuxx

probably just supporting the "ott is a distorted ilxor" theory here

xp to myself (the sequel, with a hot soundtrack full of tunes from the most unknown boston DIY bands possible & a bit of shoegaze for nostalgia)

but when ott goes on his true indie ad-free music journo crusades he overwhelmingly targets women which imo is gross and fuck him

WHY can you people not ignore this clown? i am sure that no one outside this thread gives a fuck so you are probably the only people keeping him alive

Yeah I always understood that as the reason ilx gets upset not because he in general carries himself like the ilx strawman

xp

It's just silly to say "hey ilx you give him shit when he's just like one of you" as if ilx isn't happy to give shit to its own when they get ott-ish as well.

also i feel like ilx doesn't care enough to get fired up about corny indie bullshit anymore. i could be way off there but it seems like those battles were fought long ago. though i guess the pitcfork is dumb thread still gets plenty of action. also i've kind of avoid the year end critics poll thread

WHY can you people not ignore this clown? i am sure that no one outside this thread gives a fuck so you are probably the only people keeping him alive

― lex pretend, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:02 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

always weird to me to see some crude or just incomprehensible tweet of his have a dozen or so likes and RTs. he has his fans, i guess

also i just will always lol @ call all destoyer's instruction to always imagine a loaded gun on the table during ott's monologue videos

though i guess the pitcfork is dumb thread still gets plenty of action.

It has apparently become the "spot the typo and run-on sentence in today's reviews" thread

he has his fans, i guess

And about 10,000 paid-for bots.

https://www.twitteraudit.com/shallowrewards

huh i didn't know about that site

looks like about 1000 of my 6500 are fake but i'm not super surprised i get a lot of fakey looking accounts replying to me sometimes

My followers are 94% real.

yeah idk about "paid for" there. I have 33k fake followers and nobody in my camp paid for that because lol be serious

but are the bennies real?

the realest

yeah looking at some co-workers most media ppl w/decent-ish followings are gonna run between 80-95 percent real....

as two somewhat applicable comparisons, jessica hopper is 94 percent real and whiney is 84 percent real....i'm 84 as well, lots of it you can't control obviously who spam accounts' algorhythms decide to follow

but yeah ott's 6% real rating is pretty drastically low to the point where there's gotta be something up

ray how many total do you have?

just under 100k

well yr still running 75 percent-ish real then....i feel like you hit certain levels and more bots start to attach themselves, i noticed that around 5K...so i'd imagine if you're closing in at 100k there's gonna be more bot activity....

but ott is running 650-ish real and 10K+ fake i don't see why that many bots would randomly decide to attach to it, or at least i don't see any evidence that it happens often

maybe bots just like him. they crave the authenticity they can never achieve

botts be hott for ott

maybe he name-drops brands a lot more than most

ottbotgate

I like that answer, still <1000 real followers and 10k fake is pretty weird

OTTOH for him to get caught buying followers would be so rich it's hard for me to imagine him risking it

for every sensitive nerdlinger who shakes their head when ott at-replys a pitchfork scribe about bacardi for the 80th time, eight bots just see the word Bacardi, and assumes he's on the street team.

OTTOH

lol

I don't even think you'd need to "buy" followers to corral that number at this point, just (knowingly or unknowingly) get their attention

can we just turn this thread into a twitteraudit thread, because I'm finding that way more interesting than ott-talk (Ray's Ott puns notwithstanding)

(sorry, nottwithstanding)

maybe he's just really deep undercover blowing the lid off the whole corporate marketing takeover of indie rock and he has to buy bots to fit in, like when Rust Cohle had to do meth in True Detective

loooollllllllllll

love from a bot don't startle wry ott

Doesn't Ott work in IT? Paid or not, he's figured out how to manipulate the system. Either way he's rallying to almost no one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RjtmOeDhA

There are over 1700 posts in this thread. I wonder how many would be here if you removed all "bennies" references.