I'd think, at least, on a video game site, we can recognize that this is a shitty game. Look at that hideous, cluttered UI. Look at the art design; the characters look like illustrations from the back of an off-brand cereal box.

Sounds a lot better than working for free like the dunce in the article!

Dear God. Call the waaaambulance, Tom Crier. Entitled white kid goes to Santa Clara, has the means to work for free doing something he loves to do for a few years, then complains about it on the internet. I can't believe I wasted my time reading this.

As an affluent person (which you must have been, to be able to afford not to be paid for your labor for so long), it must have come as quite a shock for you to gain a gut understanding of what the working and middle classes have known for years: that those 'incentive' systems are bullshit, simply a way of fostering an…

All you did was bitch and complain in your article. Sounds like you got fucked over because you are a whiny bitch. Maybe if you didn't feel so entitled and instead was a little more productive in trying to get paid this wouldn't happened.

Maybe I missed something in the article (always possible, it was not short), but at any point during this whole process did Bleacher Report indicate that you would be paid for your services? Did you ever sign a contract that would obligate them to provide you money for the articles you wrote? Or even receive an oral…

Your clearly not that smart to get played like this.

Maybe your situation is a bit unique because of your start there, but I don't see the part where you get "screwed over". You interned for a company. They have people write on their website for free, with ways to "move up" in ranks, but never promise anything about payment. You wrote for them, knowing all of this…

I tried to finish this article but at some point I have to go home today - in sum, your first job out of college didn't go so well? Working as a blogger in your early twenties didn't pay like you hoped? Wow, great stuff, lessons learned, etc.

Synopsis: Tom gambled by investing time and energy on the hopes of getting hired full-time by a site known for "loser-generated content" and lost. He's not happy about it.

Did you put all your eggs in the B/R basket? It seems like getting a salary with B/R was the only option you are looking at. Did you seek a job wth the papers or anything? The only B/R guy I've known wrote in college at OU then got hired by NewsOK after he got his degree.

"I see the company getting really, really big and becoming one of the biggest sports sites in the United States, if not the world, at some point,"

So you're saying you got screwed because you worked for free for Bleacher Report (of your own accord) for years ASSUMING that you'd eventually get a paid offer?

I like how at one point you said "to keep it short" and then wrote a novel.

All I know is Bleacher Report is not sports journalism. It is pure, unadulterated crap.

yeah, BR isn't the only site that wants you to produce massive amounts of content basically for free because they refuse to pay you. i just quit one.

I thought there would be 200 pictures.

Are you kidding? I got paid to make fun of Frank Miller. My job is AWESOME.

The entire rest of the internet.

Actually, I have to say- having read some of his "seminal 80s" stuff well after the 80s- Frank Miller was never very good. He was the first person in mainstream comics to hit some of the places he got to, and there's some credit to be had in that. But I have to be honest: TDKR is barely readable even from the…