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
― Frozen CD, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:47 (seven years ago) link
U GUYS
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
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
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
no, and i'm not talking about pitchfork
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
I'm lost now
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
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
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
"performative" as synonym for "inauthentic" really spread quickly
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
it's not really a synonym imo
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
that didn't seem implied to me
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
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.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I guess I tend to have negative associations with the word 'performative' in this context
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
how can media be 'performatively' woke rather than just woke? all media is performance
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
When they are making a big deal out of it more than usual? Everything is relative.
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
but i mean... it's just words on a screen
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
Some you're saying it's only performative if you're saying it while waving your hands around in the air or something?
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
So*
*keanu voice* whoa
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
it's just one of those irritating buzzwords that becomes ubiquitous overnight, already way overused/misused
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's become deplorable in its usage
― nomar, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
Yes, very problematic
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
bacon
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
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.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
surely there are....degrees of performance
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
some websites just love to performyou know the type loud as a motorbikebut wouldn't bust a dominant paradigm in a wokefight
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
BOOM!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
kind of like... woke
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
can we retire "woke" too?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
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.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
that would be like 90% of anything anyone says on the internet.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
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, 13 December 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
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, 13 December 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
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"
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
xp LOL
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
xp deej - think the word distinction u need there is good/bad
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
It was used to great effect in Atlanta's best one-liner.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
^^^so much this, this is everything
― nomar, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
kinda surprised coffee shops haven't jumped on woke as a marketing tool
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
WOKE COFFEE is an open area for explorations of techniques, tastes, and traditions of coffee. It is a single place that curates, consolidates and communicates the expansive amount of products, processes, and people of the coffee industry, for people who want to know where to start. Its is a space where for learning and respectful dialogue about the issues surrounding coffee and society, providing energy to bring forth progress in the world.
― nomar, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
get woke by your friends, and wake them back
― marcos, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
get woke with dunkin'! *picture of angela davis*
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
― nomar, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 5:08 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is this an iphone app or a physical place
― marcos, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
― flopson, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:59 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sure but 'performatively woke' (though yes now its own cliche) ascribes a selfish motive beyond simply "bad writing"
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link