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

i like on smarm, i just thing it lacks a data angle

that is very... scientific of you

― iyo iyo un day (how's life), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:48 AM (4 hours ago)

fp'd you for this

I'm not the one with a goddamn cartoon dingdong in my dn. fp'd in return.

fair

fp'd you both

=P

i think i am going to email my mom the smarm article to see what she thinks of it. she uses that word in the way scocca describes more or less and i think she arrived at this habit independently

I think I am going to email your mom too

can you ask yr mom to stop emailing me pls

i am sorta torn about the article. i think you can have a keep it positive attitude without the sanctimony/evasiveness/dishonesty or the constant appeals to authority. like bam said, i generally prefer more descriptive literary criticism to "takedowns," for instance. snarkiness seems more reflexive than critical. cynicism can be its own kind of complacency.

i loved on smarm i think it is a useful tool for thinking about public discourse these days

I knew someone in high school with the last name Biddle. Facebook tells me she's a Gavin DeGraw fangirl now. (There's probably a name for them, like DeGraw-dogs or something.)

i like the article, the only problem is that "smarm" is already a word and it doesn't mean what scocca was trying to make it mean though in principle i am all for single-handedly attempting to change the definitions of words through sheer bloody-mindedness

brb calling the mothership

re: gawker dickholes, i think it just goes with the territory of tabloids/readers of tabloids, the whole business is about treating other people like prey. my great uncle was the editor of a British tabloid back in the day and he'd make the gawker dickholes of ilx weep in shame for failing their potential. i mean, there are threads on this board designed to lure people in just to smack them around and laugh at their expense. i'd say it all fits together pretty nicely, no reason not to be real about it.

😎

Trending on Kinja:

I didn't always hate Pikachu. Actually, I used to like him. But one day, both the anime and the games decided to make Pikachu worse by progressively making his design thinner and thinner. Gone are the days of the best Pikachu, chubby Pikachu. Since then, Pikachu has only gotten more and more awful for me. For starters, Pikachu probably works wonders for making The Pokémon Company and Game Freak money, which is great for them, but it also means they're prone to plaster Pikachu on everything. It's hard not to be barraged by Pikachu's constant presence if you're a Pokémon fan, and it sucks.

i dont really know anything about pokemon but i love it/support its culture

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/5a734ca9-f1ea-43c4-8ff8-a1b1b46e2fd0/98d3306f5720f6cd1f2416a220aa7a83/res/b901a510-d093-4a5b-8cb9-96b7103c8d6f/skitch.png

i dont really know anything about pokemon but i love it/support its culture

Let me introduce you to Pocket Monster. A Nick Denton production.

Anyway, Gawker has become a less edgy BuzzFeed.

I don't know why I scrolled all the way to the comments on the St. Vincent kisses model Defamer post, but they were pretty much on par with the comments I'd expect on the NYTimes site or ESPN - guess Gawker is big media now.

http://gawker.com/white-kid-caught-ecstatically-singing-nigga-by-coache-1697520011

lol

that's my cousin. he spells it "Jase" but whatever.

he was singing "figga"

tbh I do that sometimes while alone at home and my cat gives me the side-eye, although he'd probably shit on my kitchen table if he caught me singing or rapping anything by Drake

lol j0rdan

a discriminating cat

hopefully this white teen will make it out ok................

which kid? the coachella dude or the gawker author?

i'm sure they'll both be fine ;)

J0rd can't believe you fell for a Mordy bait post in 2015 : \

llol u can't pin this embarrassment on me

i made it out ok!

ninja, he made it

are you not allowed to say nigga when singing along w/songs????? i thought u were

I'm not even mad at the kid in this story. He was at a festival, having fun, just singing along with a song he liked.

seemed like he wasn't quite nailing the lyrics as is

I laughed at
In closing: You are all trash. Your parents are ashamed of your careers and the cocaine-huffing gossip monsters you've become. You pick petty fights for a living.

lolll I mean...that's gotta be true in at least some cases, how can you miss with a generalizing machine-gun-spray comment like that

but, y'know, maybe save it for when the gawkerati are going after someone who /actually/ doesn't deserve it, guy.

oh kinja commenters, what a glorious font of absurdity thou art

save it for when the gawkerati are going after someone who /actually/ doesn't deserve it, guy.

Like a kid singing along at a concert?

idk I don't really think this qualifies as "going after," and there are varying degrees of deserve, this is prob on the low end of that spectrum - and as far as gawker-driven public embarrassments go, this is a p soft toss

Dedicated piece basically throwing a random kid up as a racist with no further commentary or insight feels pretty fucked up to me.

yeah, by that standard we were all Klansmen in the '70s

Wait'll they hear about Patti Smith

no ones deserves to have their shameful mistakes featured on gawker but he hit the publish button himself so I don't have a ton of sympathy

Genuine LOL

(The structure of your joke reminds me of that Onion joke about Jim McGreevey (featured at great length, funnily enough, in Jon Ronson's "So You've Been Publicly Shamed," which ought to have a thread of its own, probably)...
"Homosexual tearfully admits to being Governor of New Jersey")

i don't really see the value in blurring the line between "the spirit of a Southern frat party" -- implicitly the pro-lynching statements of University of Oklahoma's SAE chapter -- and a drake fan committing a faux pas at a concert because he got lost in the music and forgot the #checkhisprivilege

and by "don't really see the value" i mean i think it's really damaging and stupid