hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

most of gawkers sleazy stuff is not even sleazy if anything theyre kinda annoyingly proud of and play up this aspect in which they actually rarely even partake, like 99% of their gossip is comic meta internet irony abt taylor swifts dog or something, you know whats sleazy tho is reporting on the devastating fallout of wealth inequality on one page then having an entire section dedicated to selling homes to the super rich

the one time i was like ok that's it fuck gawker was when max wrote something like nic pizzicato sucks and is the annoying guy in your philosophy class and true detective s2 will suck--a position I vehemently disagree with--and saw a friend who i had been sharing my enthusiasm over the show with dissing pizz on twitter

lol classic autocorrect

the thing i h8 most that they do is report on children dying bizare pointless deaths

not sure what points i have scored w my media critique, idk can i redeem them on foodler this snowstorm really sucks

here's prob a better example of my overall issue. jezebel attacking bustle dot com (by paraphrasing chunks of a previous slate article which is fairly petty) as soon as bustle starts racking up enough pageviews to be seen as a threat is not about jezebel having some moral stance against the clickbaity articles on bustle, or even against the dude who facilitated bustle's launch (who granted is a typical silicon valley bro w/ a sketchy history). it's about seeing a competitor and pissing on it. the same thing is true with the endless valleywag vs. pando dick-measuring contest - neither is morally aggrieved by the other, they're annoyed that the other exists.

but w/e at the same time it's not like i want to go back to the sort of pastoral, supposedly-golden-age media environment fetishized by like, the fucking newsroom, just maybe more of a happy medium if that's achievable. maybe it isn't.

the attacks on bustle and valleywag were totally reasonable and warranted imo, the business motives i suspect are your own projections, especially since like buzzfeed and vox are much more serious competitors

i agree with your nytimes beef btw lagoon, that is just as disingenuous

like literally no one reads pando valleywag really did pick on them because they are horrible, techcrunch and mashable im sure have 1000x the traffic

i really don't think it's a stretch to think that pageviews and other metrics that drive competition might just be motivating some of these editorial decisions on occasion, that's true of every media site - not trying to say that gawker is the only one that does it.

it is true that no one read pando or talked that much about it - until they published the valleywag hatchet-job

they are def motivated by pageviews amongst other mercantile concerns im sure, but the examples you chose of attacking the competition (which is a diif issue than page views) dont make that much sense

i hope one day the snow melts and you all have the opportunity to leave your apartments again

no this is good they will bring the pizza right to u

it's true you can't really fuck with that logic, re: pizza

like tom scocca's "on smarm" piece is one of the best articles i've ever read in the past 5 or so years, online or print.

― slothroprhymes, Saturday, February 21, 2015 4:59 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

Oh so you're one of those people I see

u used to have to call and talk to them but now u cn just open a new tab its not too bad

denton vs. smith of vice, denton/biddle vs. whoever the fuck runs pando, etc...

― slothroprhymes, Saturday, February 21, 2015

tbf pando is an abomination and among humans who have not, like, tortured anyone or ordered killings [who shall not be named] is the horrible-est

dayo idk what you're ragging on about me complimenting a tom scocca article

pando does also suck, they're pretty blatantly in the pocket of various silicon valley folk, VCs and shit. again, the gawker network is in no way the only group of sites you could call out for this shit. be easier to make a list of media sites/publication you /couldnt/ say this shit about

so do u think it wldve been better just to publish... a list

maybe with gifs, could've been the move

Tom Scocca is the David Brooks of webmedia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

om gosh cmon on smarm was great

On Smarm was great... for me to poop on!!

jesus christ this is unacceptable

is scocca a stodgy asshole republican, or just stodgy in general? i didnt know anything about him personally, just liked the on smarm piece a lot

Pando has one of the weirdest "About" pages:

http://pando.com/2012/01/16/why-i-started-pandodaily/

As a founder, I have a personal goal that’s just as important and just as core to our culture: I do not want to sell this company. I have opened nearly every meeting by telling potential investors and potential employees this, so I guess readers should know it from the beginning as well.

Of course, there’s the caveat that if someone calls me tomorrow and offers $1 billion, I might cave. I do have investors after all, and everyone has a price. And I’ve been around enough entrepreneurs to know the journey changes you in ways you can’t expect. I’m as aware as anyone this resolve might soften over time.

Nah he's probably a solidly liberal white dude from an upper middle class background

His writing is just fucking awful, that's all xp

dayo must've missed the internal cool kids club memo that it's ok to like on smarm

Or maybe dissing ON Smarm is how I got into the cool kids club in the first place *runs hand through hair*

Pando has one of the weirdest "About" pages:

http://pando.com/2012/01/16/why-i-started-pandodaily/

― polyphonic, Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:53 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that is legitimately odd

Gawker's community is occasionally fantastic. I mostly read Deadspin and Jalopnik for the comments. However, both websites have fostered their respective communities for years. I really like Magary's posts too.

I don't care too much about the other websites. I find the content on io9, Kotaku, and Jezebel horrifying so I actively avoid them. I used to read Gawker more but have stopped for unknown reasons. However, I know News Feed didn't help. I'll still read posts from people I know and such. lagoon's Google Glass post ruled, for example.

I just skimmed the Gawker front page and it reminded me of the Reddit front page. The top post is a photo of a red panda. I don't think Gawker is for me anymore. And that's fine (except for this mystifying post http://gawker.com/the-real-thing-1687200510). It isn't like the Internet is absent of content.

You're welcome for this hot take.

“One time I said to a guy that, ‘I loved learning new things. I’m a bit of an infomaniac.’ And he thought I said NYMPHOMANIAC….so he fucked me. And I said ‘No, no no…I said INFO. I’m an INFOmaniac’ And he said ‘Well, here’s some info…you just got fucked. Clean yourself up.’”

― iatee, Saturday, February 21, 2015 11:15 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is really funny btw it's just less funny written down

thx allen!

what gawker is missing is new heads of product and data

agree 100%

pando totaly sounds like some site for plushies

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-ddl3FCEAA0CAO.png

taylor swifts dog

Cats! Cats.

Does she even have a dog??

lol idk prob

Taylor had 2 Siamese-Tabby mix cats called Indy and Eliehsen who didn't like anyone else in her family apart from Taylor. She has also had two dobermans called Bug and Baby. Currently, she only has two cats named Meredith and Olivia Benson.
On Twitter she has posted pictures of her cats with funny things written on the pictures.

"has also had"- so she no longer has two dobermans called Bug and Baby? what happened to them?

She ate them

http://i.imgur.com/SRaHprP.jpg

They ate her and now operate what's left of her body, panto horse style

wow lag00n was a cowboy itt.

at least we can all agree the ny times is sleazy, except maybe for benbbag lol.

i dont think the times is sleazy idk like if there are things that all orgs that do that are bad it might say something more abt the environment in which they are operating and what they need to do to flourish rather than like that the people are bad

wow lag00n was a cowboy tedious internet addict itt.

sorry bam i have to cyberbully u now