“the internet isn’t real life” stopped being broadly true a number of years ago, but this website specifically has gotten so catastrophically bad that basically nobody on here is worthy of moral consideration so we can all just yell at each other without worrying that it matters
personally I think if you are posting opinions about dimes square in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty six, regardless of what those opinions might be, you have lost the plot in such a major way you might never find it again
comedy was once a barren wasteland. nothing was funny, no matter how hard people tried. but one fateful day in 2016, everything changed when Nick Mullen invented “irony” on the first episode of his seminal podcast “Cum Town”
PSA to @nytimes@GQMagazine@VanityFair your freelancer @viajoshhunt is publishing hate tweets about publicists who are an essential part of the publishing ecosystem. He is attempting to erase an entire workforce that is vital in delivering news, fact checking and event happenings for the sake of… his own agenda
Nearly 97 percent of transgender people who received hormone therapy as teenagers did not regret it five years later, a study found.
Though some patients did regret medically transitioning, those rates are relatively low compared to other medical interventions. https://t.co/YbUUIyWEBo
These publications want you to be everything. The reporter, the editor, the copy editor, the fact-checker, the videographer, the podcast producer, the graphics editor, the data editor, the audience engagement lead... It's exploitative, & the quality is suffering.
“A is worse than B” != “B is good” is a concept you’d think a 4th grader could grasp and yet everyone on here trips over themselves to fail the test on like a weekly basis
sorry to talk about dr*pout again but Total Forgiveness was actually the most interesting and transgressive thing they’ve ever made and to see their fans talk about it you’d think everyone involved had shot babies in the street
Hot take but I think as a genre the “highly erotic personal essay by a straight woman about desire as an exercise in abjection and self-abandonment” has kind of been exhausted.
Comic Book Guy is already a pretty outdated stereotype of fans of superhero media – which is now totally mainstream – but it’s especially weird when they make him specifically a fan of a disney property and i’m watching it on disney+