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j.r. leonard's avatar

On the internet, when people like you, you can do no wrong. When people don't like you, you can do no right.

I am sometimes tempted to get in my feelings about the ethics of the internet, but then I remember that the internet has no ethics. It is one big gesticulating, self-fellating, hyper-anxious hive mind where sad people go to make themselves sadder. And Gawker DNA is a big part of the reason why this is the case.

There may have been a point in time when the media industry was so bloated and self-serious that it deserved Gawker, but today the media industry is Gawker. So what now? I guess we will find out. The only thing I know is that whatever is coming, we absolutely deserve it.

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KW's avatar

The whole dynamic reminds me a little bit of how Gamergaters came to be. These were nerds who were bullied by jocks back in high school for their lifestyles and tastes, but then time passes, superheroes and other nerd stuff becomes popular, they end up on top and turn into the same style of bullies who once bullied them.

Same thing with these media types. Unpopular and bullied in school, but time passes, social justice politics become popular, they ride the wave, and sure enough, they become the same Mean Girls who once bullied them.

It's a depressing human cycle, isn't it?

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