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For whatever reason this reminded me of the Kissie Nazi Incident in Sweden where ads were pulled from Kissies blog and a huge debate about ads on blogs began. The people spearheading the anti-Kissie, and Kissie herself, and the "newspaper" who first was threatened by Kissie, went on to bigger and better ad sponsored positions, and larger fame, after kicking up and continuing that media storm in a teacup.
Nothing new under the sun, as they say.
The pot & Kinja bit certainly was. Kinja, the modular commenting system was basically a way to get more free writing from people, as was the entire trajectory of the Gawker empire. Pay very little, and based on hits, while raking in the click-ad-cash. This is what fuelled the sociopathic "reporting". Greed.
Holy shit "Gamergate" is number 3 on the list... And the background on that, oy.
More problematically, it would turn out, I was also, unconsciously, messing with the only group even less able to grapple with irony or context: brands. What I’d missed about Gamergate was that they were gamers — they had spent years developing a tolerance for highly repetitive tasks. Like, say, contacting major advertisers.
I like how he conveniently left out the fact that several of those brands listed on their site as partners that we pointed out here, were not in fact partnered with them at all. Adobe for example were not, they asked Gawker to remove their logo and were attacked on Twitter for that. Mercedes was also not partnered with them.
As always, Tlevitz is spot on. Anchovies do not work for me either. And pineapples is for heathens! The old writing switcheroo is often lazy and here the thought doesn't connect the dots as much as the writer may have hoped - "No" is the new "yes" - doesn't quite communicate "you are not allowed to switch toppings: NO" in a simple manner. As much as we would like them to, we still have to remember that nobody reads body copy.
Another side-effect of Twitter is that people won't click through to see it's an op-ed anymore, so now we apparently have to put it in the title.... Attempts are made to discuss this with me on twitter, ironically.
I've made it a rule to not get into discussions on Twitter about articles written here, where there is a perfectly functioning open comment section.
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