Origins of the faux-naif bloggy voice?

'if by it you mean hepatitis c than yes'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

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you could have at least chosen a dn that wasn't a regurgitated joke from 5 years ago to post itt with

think there might be some crossover between this and The Tyranny of Humour

this is in a way p accurate as economics biggest problem is the quality of their data, which they then dress up in fancy equations

― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:32 PM

boy u sure know a lot about stuff or whatever

133 isn't even very many posts, I feel like you should have waited til like 250 to make the statement

this is in a way p accurate as economics biggest problem is the quality of their data, which they then dress up in fancy equations

― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:32 PM

boy u sure know a lot about stuff or whatever

― am0n, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:51 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is like a well known thing, not trying to be fancy or w/e, folks

well shucks :B

everyone and their grandma already knows that the entire field of study is a complete crock

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Is the Tiger Beatdown/Wonkette style of comedy writing an ultra-exaggerated version of this voice, or its own beast? (Deliberately stilted/simple sentences! Exclamations marks! HERE IS A SENTENCE IN ALL CAPS, BECAUSE WHY NOT?)

that's gawker

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feel like another possible target of blame w/r/t all this stuff is......... wait for it.................. indie rock.

i blame the guy in the hat with the old man voice

wayne coyne

shawn mullins

yeah indie twee mentioned on here. that's as old as the hills though.

x-post

i support all of these tone options and every one of them is grating when it's used without any other discernible ambition beyond trying to identify with readers who have no discernible ambition beyond wanting to be identified with.

or something. *submits post*

"sciencey stuff" was my least favorite line in the pareene thing but everything else was cathartically otm (again)

what i should be called out on wrt that "artificially enrhythmed" bullshit last night is my constant+notentirelyunconscious use of "like"

not that i expect people to like keep tabs on me that close i'm just saying i reread it and thought lol

Is the Tiger Beatdown/Wonkette style of comedy writing an ultra-exaggerated version of this voice, or its own beast? (Deliberately stilted/simple sentences! Exclamations marks! HERE IS A SENTENCE IN ALL CAPS, BECAUSE WHY NOT?)

― blatherskite, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:02 PM (42 minutes ago)

i assumed this is what the thread was about, but yeah people who write like this are terrible

that was the style that preceded the one were talking about

yeah i really can't stand that. i was fine w tiger beatdown for a while because it was the first place i'd seen it and it was novel and then it became the "ladyblog" voice and crept into the tone of writers i otherwise like and :/. i associate it w tumblr; idk if that's on point or anything.

Beats. Bush-era. Simpsons. Irony. Every. Time.

Faux-naive vs. Shocked, shocked.

Really the only pleasure in any of this is twofold: seeing who adopts this voice (esp late adopters) and trying to figure out why and 2) seeing who resists the adoption of this voice and trying to figure out why

who are the joiners/nonjoiners, basically.

yeah i'll take all of this over the moral shock + lurid sneer of fox-style tabloid reporting. xp

what about ned always being speechless on facebook all the time everytime he posts a wacky link. where does that fit in. lol love the ned.

speechless...

*youtube video of an otter farting*

what about people who preface everything they say with a disclaimer: "you know i like ____, but [outrageous thing about _____]"

i love that -- the people who do it always do it so reliably!

choire sicha is the origin of this bloggy voice

hes drawing on dfw but its basically him, hes the guy

he also does it better than anyone

is he the new pope

Is the Tiger Beatdown/Wonkette style of comedy writing an ultra-exaggerated version of this voice, or its own beast? (Deliberately stilted/simple sentences! Exclamations marks! HERE IS A SENTENCE IN ALL CAPS, BECAUSE WHY NOT?)

this is the pre-2003 version of internet writing i think i said this already

do you guys actually read lots of blogs? or have favorites. in 2013. i never look at them unless someone links to some dumb/outraged thing. the outrage of the day. the dumbness of the day. i don't even know why i look at those. i got some old journal of popular culture mags from the 70's the other day and they were very entertaining. and i went on the website of that mag and every single recent article is either about vampires, zombies, or superheroes. almost. or reality t.v. i am sure they are getting bushels of essays on the show Girls as we speak. there is a singlemindedness to mod pop cult discourse and it just seems so samey and zeitgeist-y to the max. i dunno. lol.

i'm sure academic types see the same stuff all the time too. the same zombie essays over and over. zombies and consumer culture, blah, blah. its all so fucking american too. i need to broaden my horizons. those 70's mags had all kinds of weird shit in them.

Well not per se, but there are so many sites that blur the lines now -- blogazines like HuffPo and Gawker, mainstream news sites with some bloggy content, etc.

RIP journalism ;_;

Blogs replaced the unnecessary middleman, then became the unnecessary middleman themselves.

“Edith Wharton Meets Aquaman: The Glimpses of the Moon and Imperiled Male Culture in Entourage” by Donna Campbell

“Failure to Launch: Not-So-Superheroes in Gravity’s Rainbow and Superfolks” by Megan Condis

“The Accidental Supermom: Superheroines and Maternal Performativity, 1963-1980” by Laura Mattoon D’Amore

“The Female Link: Citation and Continuity in Watchmen” by Erin M. Keating

“Terror in Horror Genres: The Global Media and the Millennial Zombie” by Nicole Birch-Bayley

“Forged in Love and Death: Problematic Subjects in The Vampire Diaries” by Mary Bridgeman

“The Sand/wo/man: The Unstable Worlds of Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Series” by Ally Brisbin and Paul Booth

“Remembering Why We Once Feared the Dark: Reclaiming Humanity Through Fantasy and in Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II” by Tony M. Vinci.

sorry, that was just a little comic relief. doesn't really belong here. stuff from that mag i was talking about. i'm so sick of superheroes. and vampires. probably will always love zombies despite the overload.

there is a singlemindedness to mod pop cult discourse and it just seems so samey and zeitgeist-y to the max.

yes

I read that as "to max"

pop cult journal doesn't mess around:

Essays should range between fifteen and twenty-five pages of double-spaced text in 12 pt Times New Roman font, including all images, endnotes, and Works Cited pages. Please note that the fifteen page minimum should be fifteen pages of written article material. Less than fifteen pages of written material will be rejected and the author asked to develop the article further. Essays should also be written in clear US English in the active voice and third person, in a style accessible to the broadest possible audience. Authors should be sensitive to the social implications of language and choose wording free of discriminatory or sexist overtones.

what do people think distinguishes the ladyblog voice in particular?

outrage?

bombeckian bombast?