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

Hey gawker dudes, whatcha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you?

“I’m pretty sure..." *wah wah on muted strings* "...we have a revolution coming,” said Nick Denton. *voodoo child intro* "A new world order..." *E chord hits like a jackhammer as Hollywood Hogan enters Nick Denton's SoHo loft*

“A lot of our traffic last year came from stories that we weren’t ultimately proud of,” Mr. Denton said.

You don't say.

i guess "ultimately" is a tic but i like the implication that they were proud of them at first but over time disillusionment set in

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ts: "good-ass kinja" vs "good-ass neden"

is that Evil Chuck Johnson's libel suit?

y

he leaked it to milo yiannopolous lol

still can't tell if he's actually filed the thing

i relish chuck johnson's impending legal annihilation

man if they take down the gotnews empire they could pay off the hulk

i cant believe denton actually sold writers/commenters on using "kinja" as a noun to describe content - or worse, that they just started doing it themselves

fuck chuck johnson though

i relish chuck johnson's impending legal annihilation

― appropriation and whatnot (stevie), Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

http://adamsteinbaugh.com/2015/06/18/chuck-johnson-files-libel-lawsuit-in-missouri-for-some-reason/

Miley Cyrus Makes Out With and Possibly Fingers Victoria's Secret Model

i clicked

what's wrong with that headline? miley cyrus made out with a victoria's secret model and possibly fingered her. it states what happens in the video.

i think the possible fingering doesn't happen in the video, it happens in you

what's wrong with that headline is that it seems a completely insane and repugnant thing to report as news

why

you're through the looking glass, jordan, you know that?

what does it feel like over there?

a major celebrity engaging in a public sex act -- even if jokingly -- should not be reported on a celebrity news website?

there's nothing in that headline that suggests that it was public, and if there wasn't a "sex act" involved, the story is "Citizen Kisses Citizen."

“A lot of our traffic last year came from stories that we weren’t ultimately proud of,” Mr. Denton said.

That would be a pretty weird headline sic

otoh I appreciate J0rdan's article about Affleck's new home, good commentary on both the celebrity media's obsession w/star's lives combined with some old-fashioned goofing

Then Miley sticks her hand in Maxwell’s pants, which is blurred out in the TMZ video for the appearance of standards.

there's nothing in that headline that suggests that it was public, and if there wasn't a "sex act" involved, the story is "Citizen Kisses Citizen."

― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Thursday, July 2, 2015 6:13 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

miley cyrus is not a citizen

she is a citizen of these united states of america, sir

something like that would've been covered on gawker in much the same way throughout gawker's existence so i'm guessing people are now just looking at gawker/this thread to make themselves mad

that said, that 'obama performs blackness' thinkpiece was one of the hackiest things i've read in a while

Why are you ppl holding gawker to the quality standards of like the Wall Street journal or some shit???

I assume people just like to give Jordan shit

sure, i guess.

but why does he bother defending the shit site he's a part of, is the question? they have ridiculously low standards, they routinely violate people's privacy in the name of bullshit "news" that is of no value to anyone, and yet jordan and others seem to think they're doing god's work instead of being rightfully embarrassed at how they make a living (if indeed they make a living).

that sounded really 'emo'.

i guess i was just irritated the few times that some poorly-sourced article built on hearsay was championed as some kind of truth-to-power thing. if you're peddling the blogger version of smut, then own up to it. don't pretend you're looking out for the little guy or whatever.

Applied to the rest of the day's news:

Obana, in Wisconsin, Takes On And Possible Fingers Scott Walker

Robot Kills and Possible Fingers Worker in Germany

Apple Enters and Possibly Fingers The Music Streaming Business

posting death photos to yr main page with blood an brain matter all over the ground with only the slightest pixelization over the gunshot wound is just gross as fuck, seriously, put that shit behind a fucking click-through.

twitter has totally destigmatized the Faces Of Death-era avoidance of publishing pictures of dead people in mainstream media, every other day is like oh someone got killed on camera HERE LOOK

I've not once seen pictures of dead ppl on twitter tbh. Also, it seems fairly easy to unfollow ppl who would post such things. I'm not even saying don't post it ~at all~, but ffs why am I not given the choice of whether or not I want to see some dead dude's brains? I mean it's not like I'm breathlessly clutching the pearls scrolling through rotten.com or something

oh yeah, that was totally gross and unnecessary.

"Then Miley sticks her hand in Maxwell’s pants, which is blurred out in the TMZ video for the appearance of standards."

Thankfully the appearance of standards is not a gawker concern.

miley cyrus is not a citizen

― J0rdan S., Thursday, July 2, 2015 11:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd love to hear more on this - sounds like the kind of thing Sun/Daily Mail showbiz reporters say. Do you believe there is there any difference between what you're doing with a post like this and what they do?

Cell block and locked - I never clock it y'all
'Cause time and time again time
They got me servin' to those and to them
I'm not a citizen
But ever when I catch a C-O
Sleepin' on the job - my plan is on go-ahead
On the strength, I'ma tell you the deal
I got nothin' to lose
'Cause I'm goin' for the steel

I'd love to hear more on this - sounds like the kind of thing Sun/Daily Mail showbiz reporters say. Do you believe there is there any difference between what you're doing with a post like this and what they do?

― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Friday, July 3, 2015 5:17 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i don't know that much about british tabloids but i think gawker's celeb coverage is better than those on several diff levels, yes

for real

I'm proud to count Miley as an American citizen.

That specific story didn't seem so bad though. It made me want to give Miley Cyrus a high five.

did you guys talk about the jezebel writer not getting a tattoo

that was stupid. tattoo artists are allowed to deny you. many tattoo artists do not tattoo on necks. that shit was infuriating.

She has a 22 year old nanny