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

gawker, huffpo, slate, buzzfeed

slate?

"don't trust anyone who doesn't have a picture of their asshole on their phone" is the rallying cry of our age

#ConfederacyofAssholes

They just reposted this piece without comment from February over on Jezebel.

http://gawker.com/brands-are-not-your-friend-1684232182

Someday we're going to be unlocking doors and paying for groceries with scans of our assholes so I guess the only downside of having asshole pics on your phone are potential identity theft.

Wesley Snipes tearing someone's asshole out in Demolition Man 2.

I'm not sure that questioning the sending of reproducible/distributable digital images of yr genitalia is necessarily reducible to a generational gap

none of those words look spelt right btw

*sexy computer voice*
"rectal scan complete. access granted."

I'll say it is.

all brands are inherently psychopathic. A company does not have feelings. It will never love you. It does not love its workers. It likely screws them over. Think about that the next time you tweet at a brand, or defend one online. Treating brands like buddies isn't just embarrassing for all parties—sympathy for a brand is antipathy for all humans. The great friending of the brand undermines the vital skepticism of corporate America and capitalism altogether. It's horrid enough that our laws treat corporations as people—to treat them as personal friends is just rotten.

no no no no Klein no

I agree completely w Mordy's quote

xp

Cosign that brand loyalty is bizarre

pretty sure that Mazda loves me

i'm not sure what this has to do with anything except maybe being a veiled objection to the managing partners

Sufjan, Mazda has always spoken very highly of you

Mazda esp appreciated all the dick pics

This is the weirdest recent example for me, sry for ot https://twitter.com/blobtower/status/610903479398182913 that's justin vernon on apple

I'm starting to think that there are a number of Gawkerers that have been under the impression that they were working for Democracy Now but are just discovering that they were surreptitiously sponsored by Pizza Hut the whole time.

Energizer.

good! where? on social media?

yup

Buzzfeed and Gawker are like garbage landfills that decided to get into the condo development business, but they only build condos on half the landfill and keep the other half a garbage dump.

"I know it smells but look at the view!"

Admittedly, Buzzfeed has some great journalism.

But yeah, they're weird experiments in going "legit" while continuing to seek profit from the junk that launched them. I think the Gawker story caused all the more outrage because Gawker tries so hard to hold itself out as something more substantial than the millennial version of a supermarket tabloid.

definitely. if they were like "look we're trash and we post trash articles" no one would care but they're like "we are intrepid brave journalists" and then not only that but "this is a great example of our intrepid brave journalism!"

https://twitter.com/leahfinnegan

http://www.newsweek.com/how-rage-quit-your-prestigious-media-job-out-principle-355815

As slimy as Denton is, it's hard to imagine ways in which the Gawker staff could handle this worse.
Particularly given that between throwing a fit about editorial independence they mention Max and Tommy were dear friends and wonderful people - makes it look like they're pissy that their buddies aren't on the job anymore.

No one on Earth respects Gawker staff as 'journalists.'

i can't get over how shitty that newsweek page looks. it makes the cracked magazine website look classy.

xp: Newsweek claims I have already hit my limit of "five free articles per month." No fucking way I have read five Newsweek articles this year let alone month.

yow, leah's twitter is pretty brutal

when asked by @pareene about their favorite posts on the gawker network, the partnership was only able to name 2 things

this might be a clue about the value of individual writers' contributions to the company - you're jaded Buzzfeed, as long as each 'vertical' pumps out a couple dozen posts each weekday to keep people checking in every now and then, that's what matters
I hope one of the things was the "best restaurant in New York" is series.

Leah Finnegan ‏@leahfinnegan 57 minutes ago
nick just hit his head on a lamp

He was probably hoping no-one would tweet that - he has taught these young tigers too well.

Feel like more is lost than gained in a gawker implosion, the schadenfreude is weirdly idealistic to me, like just in terms of the principles on which the company runs it's been, historically, superior to buzzfeed and vice in so many ways

Of course, now that it's inviolable principles are oops actually violable if the brands get mad, nm it's exactly the same

"this bucket of shit smells so much nicer than these other two buckets of shit"

she's clearly pissed with /some/ good reason but also going for like faux-naif crossed with snarktastic and it's nagl

i really dont know where they think they'll have the freedom to do this shit with such abandon, like did they really not think they were slaves to fucking board members /like everybody else/

Wait, if they are like everyone else, then surely 'where they'll have the freedom' is.. everywhere!

well obv i mean i dunno what new media fiefdom will grant them said freedoms in a professional capacity

guys the internet mediascape is not interesting fyi these are not fitting subjects for the breathy-tales tones used itt

"this bucket of shit smells so much nicer than these other two buckets of shit"

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Am I missing some non bucket of shit when I log into Facebook in the morning? Haveny we discussed the kinds of stories they do that aren't being done by the times that are good?

well obv i mean i dunno what new media fiefdom will grant them said freedoms in a professional capacity

― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:14 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Which is why it sucks that it's going down in flames! I don't think you have to be defensive about the original article to think this sucks

There will, absolutely and without a doubt, some Hot New Gunslingers with a heroic editor fending off The Man that pays their paychecks, within six months. It's really really really not the fall of Camelot and end of the heroic age, guys.

i equate this with some indie band that maybe had one or two good songs quitting music -- there is plenty of other music to be entertained by, doesn't really matter much

like just in terms of the principles on which the company runs it's been, historically, superior to buzzfeed and vice in so many ways

Just in the oddball slice of life stuff (like the Youtube Munchies channel), Vice is putting out more worthwhile material than Gawker ever has.

It's almost time to stop holding Gavis McInnes against them (almost).

xps deej i dont think the whole site is cooked, although theyll def be on a slightly shorter leash as opposed to the previously nonexistent one

i don't know how anyone could say gawker is better than vice. gawker journalism is celebrity scandals and other web institution fuckups.

the movie about the Vice dudes that investigated that Jim Jones-like cult was pretty decent.