{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Mic's Drop: How Mic.com exploited social justice for clicks, and then abandoned a staff that believed in it.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/164585844068/", "html": "Mic's Drop: How Mic.com exploited social justice for clicks, and then abandoned a staff that believed in it.\n

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In retrospect, it looks like Mic\u2019s commitment to social justice was never that deep \u2014 which surprised and disappointed many of the young ideologues who went to work there. (The Outline spoke to 17 current and former staffers who requested anonymity due to nondisclosure agreements.) Mic chanced upon the social justice narrative, discovered it was Facebook gold, and mined away. Now the quarry is nearly dry.

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whoever drank that particular flavour of neoliberal koolaid deserved it\u00a0

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Oddly I haven\u2019t missed them. \u00a0Hell, I didn\u2019t even notice their absence. \u00a0

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I noticed they were gone because Mic actually had me blocked here

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Every so often I\u2019d try to comment on some long discussion and I couldn\u2019t because the OP was a shitty Mic article

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I was blocked also, but their pandering shit kind of blended into the rest of tumblr I guess.

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In a sense Tumblr stole their thing because any self-loathing hubris filled tween could write for them.

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Wait a second don\u2019t bury the lede, Mic blocked people on tumblr (as a way of making sure the reblog chains of their official ports-to-tumblr never went through ancaps and were more hugboxy) ?? \n

\nOne more thing I didn\u2019t realize could happen until someone broke a norm and it looked obvious in retrospect. 2017!

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