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thegreatgadfly:

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thespectacularspider-girl:

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I think you should see this:

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Nissan pulls ads from Gawker\u00a0http://theralphretort.com/nissan-cuts-ties-gawker/

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And Gawker making an article in response to it\u00a0http://gawker.com/how-we-got-rolled-by-the-dishonest-fascists-of-gamergat-1649496579 (archive.today link\u00a0https://archive.today/UXA4r)

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It is like they want to deliberately sink their business into the ground by showing themselves as being about the worst place to advertise in, seeing how they treat advertisers.

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P.S: bonus points for saying that Ren\u00e9e J. James, president of Intel, is a \u201ccraven idiot\u201d.

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Gawker, confirmed for mad.\u00a0 Like.\u00a0 Mad mad.

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AND THEY CAN\u2019T DO A THING TO STOP IT.

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Looks like they\u2019re opting for the \u201crun ourselves into the ground\u201d option. And here I thought they\u2019d be smarter than that. Lol. I was wrong.

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Max Read-era Gawker is a glass cannon.

The Choire/Balk/Doree Gawker could handle this shit, but then it would never have gotten itself in this position in the first place. That\u2019s not speculation, just go over to The Awl, which is basically the Choire/Balk/Doree Gawker aged in place, and check out their Gamergate stuff. It\u2019s still anti-, and given to celebrate their triumphs before they hatch, but that \u201cwe\u2019ll get them in the end\u201d stuff is the line of someone rationalizing a strategic retreat and regrouping.

Hell, even Pareene could\u2019ve handled this. He\u2019d be an insufferable little shit about it (I have no idea how he missed both of the Daily Caller\u2019s \u201cmost punchable faces in media\u201d lists), but he at least knew that the Gawker brand voice was contempt, not hatred. I mean, look at this. Correct.

Eh. I could tell Gawker was headed nowhere good in 200\u20267? 9? Back when commenting was open by audition only and there was an article about some kid falling out a window and one of the commenters invoked Anal Cunt\u2019s classic Conor Clapton ballad, \u201cYour Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck\u201d, and then someone huffed that we should show more sensitivity, because a child has died and all that, and then the huffer was not included in that Friday\u2019s round of commenter executions.

It\u2019s funny looking at the comments, people reading \u2018gaters as a new cultural development that\u2019s ruining your arcadian internet. Nah man, that\u2019s the traditional culture of the old internet you built yours on top of. Used to wander the plains freely, and as recently as a decade ago you intermingled, but by now you\u2019ve pushed it back into reservations on the \u2018chans, and you\u2019re still pushing. Cet animal est tr\u00e8s m\u00e9chant; Quand on l'attaque, il se d\u00e9fend.

I guess my investment in all this is that I was born and raised into citizenship in the older internet, and I\u2019ve got a bit of patriotism about it.

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