what next for Chris ott?

maybe he realized that a social media presence was pointless when he had a family, 90k and bennies, access to an open field and more albums than he could hope to revisit over the rest of his lifetime. that all the internet had to offer him was aggravating intimations of what could have been, glimpses of roads not chosen, which kept him from appreciating what he had.

Maybe word got back to his employer and his 90k + bennies were in peril?

― 龜, Friday, August 15, 2014 1:05 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does it make me a bad person that i kind of hope this happened?

I hope he got a promotion and has gone full gollum over his 100k + bennies

hope he got upgraded to shoobies

he has given himself over completely to the only true joy, watching children sleep

other people's children

he is the nightwatchman at an orphanage. it is really quite sweet.

no love lost between him and ilx clearly, but, idk, hope he's ok.

from other internet fracases i've seen, deletion of whole internet presence doesn't suggest good times.

yeah, I genuinely hope he is ok as well. I don't really know of him outside of the bennies boast

maybe your baby

― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, August 15, 2014 6:04 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe he died

― Atp Fin (wins), Friday, August 15, 2014 6:01 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dead men don't delete internet presences

all I really know about this guy is that he's a homophobe. Hope he's doing alright though!

misogynist too. hope he's hanging in there.

Big ott

― Charlie Slothrop (wins), Monday, August 19, 2013 10:46 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^classic post

I enjoyed the video series he'd been doing -- he got rid of all those, as well.

yeah honestly I hope dude is ok. I get scared for ppl when they delete everything.

The fact he's pushing his website to Pitchfork suggests maybe it's not super serious?

He was probably angry that he was providing all this content for free

He will be back when he has figured out how to monetize his brand

Before anyone ever cared where I would write, I was a writer at Pitchfork. It’s where I listened. It’s where I ranted. It’s where I cried. It’s where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart. People there have seen me grow up. I sometimes feel like I’m their son. Their passion can be overwhelming. But it drives me. I want to give them hope when I can. I want to inspire them when I can. My relationship with Pitchfork is bigger than bennies. I didn’t realize that years ago. I do now.

I remember when I left years ago. I was thinking, This is really tough. I could feel it. I was leaving something I had spent a long time helping create. If I had to do it all over again, I’d obviously do things differently, but I’d still have left. Shallow Rewards, for me, has been almost like college for other kids. These past few years helped raise me into who I am. I became a better writer and a better man.

^ nice work

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/where-have-all-the-music-messageboards-gone?

In the case of I Love Music, a forum started by British critic Tom Ewing in 2000, those ideas are then, sometimes, brought into the mainstream by their boarders. I Love Music functioned informally as a talent pool for several major music publications around the world – some of the most formative critics from Pitchfork, the Guardian, the Village Voice, and the New York Times were active there before they’d made their names – and having that space to turn over ideas until they could take shape was undeniably valuable.

“ILM was an overtly UK/AU populated board, and so I gravitated to that as an anglophile, trying to prove myself with that crowd,” says Chris Ott, a former Pitchfork writer during its most formative years. “Had various posters there not attacked or mentioned me, I would probably have never had a presence there, but I wanted to contend with them, or learn from them, because they operated on such a higher plane, intellectually, than US boarders I was going back and forth with.”

so sad..

well

megalolz

Omfg

sums up my reaction too

I say!

i like that as a subtle hipinion burn

why does this guy get any attention at all? he seems like a million other macho indie-music blowhards.

i feel like the "end of messageboard" thing is kinda funny given that Reddit is basically just messageboards with an upvoting mechanism

big lolz

TOO OTT

OTT DAMN!

CALL THE POLICE AND THE FIREMAN

Stoked for the Lord Custos interview on Buzzfeed.

Can't beat "I predict a wry-Ott"

i'd say "don't start a wry ott" beats it

Quiet! Wry Ott

its most formative years

subsequent years slightly less formative

you might even call them in-formative

does this guy get any attention at all? he seems like a million other macho indie-music blowhards.

He does, for sure, but he WROTE FOR PITCHFORK.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, July 2, 2015 4:41 PM (Yesterday)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Boy I fucked up that post.

this calls for a poll

wait, jaymc, are you mobilizing one of my old posts to respond to my new one? i'm confused.

Boy I fucked up that post.

PROFIT

http://s13.postimg.org/fhw9nl5p3/Screen_Shot_2015_10_14_at_10_30_07_AM.png

Good thing he waited until they had Conde Nast's legal team in place to sort that out.

*in Conde Nast's boardroom*

"So who is this orc guy? Some cosplayer?"

"guys he's saying if we keep his shit online he's going to sue the shit out of us"
"how long will it take to get his stuff offline until we figure out what we wanna do?"
"did that already, it took about thirty seconds"
"so if it's offline now how much of a case does he have?"
"none"
"can the site survive without his work?"
*blink*
*ten minutes of laughter*

I don't think they're gonna take down the year end lists, since those are clearly valued for longtail traffic, available via one hover and click from the current pitchfork homepage

let him have his empty boasting, dude obviously isn't going to sue anyone, saying nasty things about pitchfork is just his hobby