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

lol the kid is singing but drake... is not https://vine.co/v/eupn0FMLiJ7

White Kid Caught Ecstatically Typing "hollywood fatso"

Also "finding viral things interesting" is pretty much written on the lintel of ILX.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, April 14, 2015

new board desc plz "finding viral things interstng"

Fucks sake things being notable on social media is not interesting

Virality is the most basic online life form. It's not interesting!

this isn't true. certainly a lot of things that happen on social media aren't noteworthy -- "teens don't know who [x person] is!" is boring and useless, for instance. but you can't run, or contribute to, a meaningful news-based website without paying attention to what people might be talking about on social media. it's the job of the modern journalist (in certain positions and roles) to figure out how to sift thru and package those things so that you produce work that reaches an audience and does so in a way that is, well, good.

but idk that seems self-evident to me

idk we have had enough random shit in threads that showed up on gawker later that I think gawker could do "ilx things intersting"

your inner neetzan got u hired for sure

lol "moral nihilism" from a cheerleader for an apartheid state

hey now we're talking about true evil in the world here, not the israel/palestine conflict, Morbs

morbs : D

i was much more offended by j0rd's post calling Joan Rivers a gay icon

neetzan is the wrong analogy. i don't have an inner neetzan.

it's more like: gawker -- and any good publication -- exists as a place for its writers to write about things they find interesting. my twitter feed is tailored to show me things i think i might find interesting. there is not a direct connection between the two but sometimes my twitter feed shows me something i find interesting enough to put on gawker dot com. if several people on my twitter feed are talking about one thing i might consider if other people will find it interesting, too, and sometimes i put something on gawker dot com, though in the large majority of cases i do not.

or in other words: deej otm

tbh it feels more like spectacle and shaming whereas maybe your real vibe on this kind of post is "we are this dude"

don't become an editor

i think about three years ago i got into this argument with jordan and his suggestion to me was, go read a newspaper
that's worked out pretty well for both of us so I am recommending it as an answer to anyone who takes issue with gawker

bonus: i'm consistently knocking out the friday nyt xword

^BRAGGIN '15^

c'mon. if you deal in the blood of a person's reputation, at least expect repercussions. in fact, own that shit. internet's picking up heat on a call for jordan's head on this post, and can you blame them? it comes with the territory. all the successful tabloid people i've known have had ice in their veins, real motherfuckers. if you can't own that shit, get out of the game.

lol if you think i didn't expect the exact response that the post got

did anyone reach out to get comment from the kid in question?

xps to forks that's a pretty good way of looking at it, I mean you engage with the sites that are properties of new media robber barons and you should m/l know what you're getting into- some of it will be entertaining and funny, some will be legitimately valuable, some will be petty trash or worse; you read papers and other straight up news properties and you prob get boring news w/ another set of potential issues

(insert devil's advocate "newspapers are compromised/dying/trash sometimes too" caveat here)

I think j0rdan has been pretty forthcoming about what he was doing w/ the post, like what he was trying to convey, obv there's a pure clickbait aspect to it on some level but this is Internet writing so what does anyone expect and on that level dude is just doing his job

the blood of a person's reputation ... who afaik no one has identified or seems interested in identifying

if he ends up ID'd it's more likely it'll be from someone interested in making a "point" about media shaming ppl than it would be someone actually trying to shame the kid

i suspect, anyway. i think you guys think there are a lot of people interested in exposing a kid who sang along with the n-word at a concert and while i'm sure there are a lot of people put off by it or annoyed by it or seeing it as a reminder of an entire society of injustice, i doubt many of them thing it's worth the time to track down this kid to make an example of ... that's like some anti-Political-Correctness paranoia IMO.

Also I think ppl trying to ascertain Jordan's specific underlying motives are doing a disservice to this argument, or are only picking up on it bc he is here to respond (more than he needs to IMO). As it relates to the great argument, um, death of the author & all that

to the *greater* argument

oh come on

the kid's friends and acquaintances will see it eventually. he'll most likely be mortified. the post compared what he did to racist southern frat parties which this week carries implications of the vile University of Oklahoma SAE chapter

maybe it doesn't matter if he gets really upset because of this. or if some people end up seeing him a little differently. nothing more will probably come of it for him than that, but those things aren't nothing.

it's not inconceivable that his name eventually gets linked to this and it affects his ability to get a job either. probably won't happen, but if so that's a real consequence that matters

dude, you're talking to people who do this kind-of thing for fun and profit and then contort themselves into evading responsibility. you might as well be making these points to a brick wall.

r u the kid who sang along the nword with drake at cochella sry u r fired that was very rude

i wonder what must it feel like to fire someone for a social media faux pas

oh no a white kid might not get a job

...

what an amazing contortion to suggest that public behavior might have consequences

it's just kind of a funny moment of our zany constantly "plugged-in" "no privacy" 21st century society

no jordan is responsible for ruining this young man's life by pointing out something that he did in public w/ hundreds of other people

is the "Jace" thing a MtG dig?

most famous Jace
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=195297&type=card

no jordan is responsible for ruining this young man's life by pointing out something that he did in public w/ hundreds of other people

― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:00 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its true i have already fired him in fact

xp lollllllll SG for the win

"pointing out"

what else are you suggesting he did? did he call for the kid to be fired from all future employment opps?

those are all some fine contortions, thank you for proving my point. we've gone through victim blaming, minimization, and dehumanization (LOLLL!!!) one right after the other. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling.

hey ilx wtf is wrong with u.

more people should be publicly shamed for minor transgressions, harden up.

waht is this kid a victim of? a website made fun of him?

pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling. pretty classic stuff on display here, and on a group-wide scale, at that. chilling.

first they came for the kids singing drake lyrics and i said nothing, because i was not a fan.

all the tell tale signs of chilling itt

more people should be publicly shamed for minor transgressions

why?

pretty sure that "kid" is famous actor Ryan Hansen