pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

And there should've been more: Fade, Finish Line/Drown, Same Drugs, Father Stretch My Hands pt 1... great year for both of them, really

http://pitchfork.com/news/70394-adventure-time-islands-miniseries-announced/

so is this the first one that has nothing to do with music and doesn't even try to?

Wait, what? I'm so confused. Why is there a news story about a children's TV show on there?

hipster millennials love adventure time

Golden Globe nominees story was worse

Pandora's about to roll out its on-demanding streaming service. First step is targeting the Whitney fans.

> ok what is with this pandora sponsorship thing tbh

U GUYS

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/70351/c22ba646.jpg

tfw when your site advocates for marginalized voices all year but boss asks you to play nice with the internet's biggest gathering place of unrepentant racists, creep-shot enthusiasts and kid-touchers

tfw when your site advocates for marginalized voices all year

i've said this before and i'll say it again

the more performatively woke an outlet, the more likely they are to treat (ALSO PAY) their inexperienced POC and LGBT writers badly

Wut? Surely you're not suggesting they pay POC and LGBT writers less? I know the whole enterprise is crashing downhill, but that seems highly unlikely to me.

no, and i'm not talking about pitchfork

I'm lost now

performatively woke

stealing this phrase because it nails the dangerous tendency to treat social justice as a trend (by definition: inevitably displaced), which is why I wonder how many Bandcamp proceeds will be getting donated to progressive causes this time next year. Then again, I'm a cynic

"performative" as synonym for "inauthentic" really spread quickly

it's not really a synonym imo

that didn't seem implied to me

u can be inauthentic without being performative. imo "performative" speaks more to a style of social media behavior than the actual ideas that behavior is promoting. it's the personalized version of a fluff piece PR ad from Exxon about how they care about the environment and the future.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I guess I tend to have negative associations with the word 'performative' in this context

how can media be 'performatively' woke rather than just woke? all media is performance

When they are making a big deal out of it more than usual? Everything is relative.

but i mean... it's just words on a screen

Some you're saying it's only performative if you're saying it while waving your hands around in the air or something?

So*

but i mean... it's just words on a screen

*keanu voice* whoa

it's just one of those irritating buzzwords that becomes ubiquitous overnight, already way overused/misused

yeah it's become deplorable in its usage

Yes, very problematic

bacon

there's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes, who the CEOs are, how the company is structured, how people are hired, how employees are managed, how content is cut and edited, etc.

or yeah, you could just stop and look at the final product/performance, words on a screen and think that's good enough.

surely there are....degrees of performance

some websites just love to perform
you know the type loud as a motorbike
but wouldn't bust a dominant paradigm in a wokefight

BOOM!

it's just one of those irritating buzzwords that becomes ubiquitous overnight, already way overused/misused

― flappy bird, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of like... woke

can we retire "woke" too?

where are akbar and jeff when we need them?

"performatively woke" is the latest iteration of jazz hands.

my connotation of "performative" is advocating for something else but still managing to make it all about you. that seems like a useful concept.

that would be like 90% of anything anyone says on the internet.

my connotation of "performative" is advocating for something else but still managing to make it all about you. that seems like a useful concept.

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 2:33 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, this makes sense. performative can stay. but woke is no longer bae. woke is totes just...no #NotTheOnion #Because2016

that would be like 90% of anything anyone says on the internet.

― scott seward

oh come on jesus spends large chunks of the christian gospels denouncing just this kind of "performative" behaviour. human evil was not invented in 1996 by steve case.

my connotation of "performative" is advocating for something else but still managing to make it all about you. that seems like a useful concept.

ok that is useful, i guess. i thought PW was, like, ppl/corps sharing a bunch of SJ stuff on social media but not putting in any 'work'. so in case of online media, where literally all you do is write stuff for ppl to share, the 'performative' is redundant cus thats all you can do

but yea woke sucks in general imo. white libs/leftists realized saying 'politically correct' makes u sound like a Trump supporter so we just made up a new word

someone should make a Cathy cartoon w/her lying down with "IT'S HARD TO BE WOKE WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO GET OUT OF BED"

ok that is useful, i guess. i thought PW was, like, ppl/corps sharing a bunch of SJ stuff on social media but not putting in any 'work'. so in case of online media, where literally all you do is write stuff for ppl to share, the 'performative' is redundant cus thats all you can do

― flopson, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:32 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

id argue theres writing that is doing work—journalism, smart criticism, whatever— & there is writing that brands itself as "doing work" & really just writing from a script/reiterating cliches to enhance one's social status

xp LOL

xp deej - think the word distinction u need there is good/bad

but yea woke sucks in general imo. white libs/leftists realized saying 'politically correct' makes u sound like a Trump supporter so we just made up a new word

― flopson, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:46 PM (thirteen minutes ago)

I've only heard white liberals use it, as one of students like to scornfully remind me.

It was used to great effect in Atlanta's best one-liner.

^^^so much this, this is everything

https://www.bustle.com/articles/134893-what-does-woke-mean-theres-more-to-the-slang-term-than-you-think

The actual phrasing of "woke," it should be mentioned, has been floating around black social media circles for years. It's not the first AAVE word to be taken up by the greater public ("bae" and "twerk" and "trap queen" are just a few), and it certainly won't be the last. If you are interested in a detailed timeline that charts the full evolution of "woke" from its first pop culture mention to its use today, I'd highly suggest checking out this article by Charles Pulliam-Moore. It's fascinating.

Erykah Badu first used "stay woke" in her 2008 song Master Teacher, and by 2011 the phrase had begun to gain popularity as a way of describing an informed, questioning, self-educating individual, which is essentially how we use it today.

i did my research, now you do yours

kinda surprised coffee shops haven't jumped on woke as a marketing tool