Bae way worse than brah
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link
oh noes"
― $90k plus bennies (CJ IN THE CUT), Thursday, 22 May 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link
Srsly so what is next for Chris Ott? He deleted his entire internet presence and Shallowrewards.com redirects to Pitchfork.
― a-lo, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
play him out, markers
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Shallowrewards.com redirects to Pitchfork.
lol
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 15 August 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
What ws shallowrewards.com? Blog? Doesn't sound v joyful
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCkrbrzDtNc
― markers, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
lmao
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Friday, 15 August 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Maybe word got back to his employer and his 90k + bennies were in peril?
― 龜, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
maybe he realized that a social media presence was pointless when he had a family, 90k and bennies, access to an open field and more albums than he could hope to revisit over the rest of his lifetime. that all the internet had to offer him was aggravating intimations of what could have been, glimpses of roads not chosen, which kept him from appreciating what he had.
― da croupier, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Friday, August 15, 2014 1:05 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
does it make me a bad person that i kind of hope this happened?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
I hope he got a promotion and has gone full gollum over his 100k + bennies
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 15 August 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
hope he got upgraded to shoobies
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Friday, 15 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
he has given himself over completely to the only true joy, watching children sleep
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
other people's children
― The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
he is the nightwatchman at an orphanage. it is really quite sweet.
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
no love lost between him and ilx clearly, but, idk, hope he's ok.
from other internet fracases i've seen, deletion of whole internet presence doesn't suggest good times.
― goole, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
yeah, I genuinely hope he is ok as well. I don't really know of him outside of the bennies boast
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
maybe your baby
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, August 15, 2014 6:04 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ienjoyhotdogs, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
maybe he died
― Atp Fin (wins), Friday, August 15, 2014 6:01 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ienjoyhotdogs, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
dead men don't delete internet presences
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
all I really know about this guy is that he's a homophobe. Hope he's doing alright though!
― Atp Fin (wins), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
misogynist too. hope he's hanging in there.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Big ott
― Charlie Slothrop (wins), Monday, August 19, 2013 10:46 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^classic post
― Atp Fin (wins), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
I enjoyed the video series he'd been doing -- he got rid of all those, as well.
― a-lo, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah honestly I hope dude is ok. I get scared for ppl when they delete everything.
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
The fact he's pushing his website to Pitchfork suggests maybe it's not super serious?
― a-lo, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
He was probably angry that he was providing all this content for free
He will be back when he has figured out how to monetize his brand
― 龜, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Before anyone ever cared where I would write, I was a writer at Pitchfork. It’s where I listened. It’s where I ranted. It’s where I cried. It’s where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart. People there have seen me grow up. I sometimes feel like I’m their son. Their passion can be overwhelming. But it drives me. I want to give them hope when I can. I want to inspire them when I can. My relationship with Pitchfork is bigger than bennies. I didn’t realize that years ago. I do now.
I remember when I left years ago. I was thinking, This is really tough. I could feel it. I was leaving something I had spent a long time helping create. If I had to do it all over again, I’d obviously do things differently, but I’d still have left. Shallow Rewards, for me, has been almost like college for other kids. These past few years helped raise me into who I am. I became a better writer and a better man.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
^ nice work
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Friday, 15 August 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/where-have-all-the-music-messageboards-gone?
In the case of I Love Music, a forum started by British critic Tom Ewing in 2000, those ideas are then, sometimes, brought into the mainstream by their boarders. I Love Music functioned informally as a talent pool for several major music publications around the world – some of the most formative critics from Pitchfork, the Guardian, the Village Voice, and the New York Times were active there before they’d made their names – and having that space to turn over ideas until they could take shape was undeniably valuable. “ILM was an overtly UK/AU populated board, and so I gravitated to that as an anglophile, trying to prove myself with that crowd,” says Chris Ott, a former Pitchfork writer during its most formative years. “Had various posters there not attacked or mentioned me, I would probably have never had a presence there, but I wanted to contend with them, or learn from them, because they operated on such a higher plane, intellectually, than US boarders I was going back and forth with.”
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 2 July 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
so sad..
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 July 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
well
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Thursday, 2 July 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
megalolz
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 July 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Omfg
― da croupier, Thursday, 2 July 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
sums up my reaction too
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 2 July 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
I say!
― how's life, Thursday, 2 July 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
i like that as a subtle hipinion burn
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 July 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
why does this guy get any attention at all? he seems like a million other macho indie-music blowhards.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 2 July 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
i feel like the "end of messageboard" thing is kinda funny given that Reddit is basically just messageboards with an upvoting mechanism
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 July 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
big lolz
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 July 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
TOO OTT
OTT DAMN!
CALL THE POLICE AND THE FIREMAN
― some dude, Friday, 3 July 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
Stoked for the Lord Custos interview on Buzzfeed.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
Can't beat "I predict a wry-Ott"
― tayto fan (Michael B), Friday, 3 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
i'd say "don't start a wry ott" beats it
― da croupier, Friday, 3 July 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Quiet! Wry Ott
― efreet liberal (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
its most formative years
subsequent years slightly less formative
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 3 July 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
you might even call them in-formative
does this guy get any attention at all? he seems like a million other macho indie-music blowhards.
He does, for sure, but he WROTE FOR PITCHFORK.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, July 2, 2015 4:41 PM (Yesterday)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jaymc, Saturday, 4 July 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
Boy I fucked up that post.
― jaymc, Saturday, 4 July 2015 04:59 (eight years ago) link