"The Great Selfie Riot of 2014"

Ahem, due to the hue of the participants, that is not a riot but rather a spirited gathering of exuberant youth.

2 things:

You must be an incredibly dull experience.

How did they get Lana Kane to do this ad? ISIS must be hurting for cash again.

She's cool as shit. Well done, Ford.

How to show pride in your achievements without belittling others.

I was totally distracted by her glorious afro.

Because every time I post, you respond. It's endearing. You must have seen a picture of me.

Thanks. I'll get right to work on that. And you're a saint for calling me dumb, not smart enough to get your awful analogy, etc. You were saying something about being a hypocrite...?

No, I'm just refreshing the screen and watching you inexplicably continue to respond to me.

Damn. You got me. My anonymous comment on a website is the same exact thing as a shameless tactic used to make ad dollars. Keep 'em comin'.

Are you really serious in this argument? It fails on so many levels. By this logic anything on 4chan or redditt is journalism being unjustly compared to a certain "golden" era. Also, stop only answering tiny pieces of commenter rebuttals. It's a nasty habit.

Thank you posting again.

Writer has no idea what Clickbait is, spends entire article defending tabloid reporting, never once actually mentioning the process of clickbait or real clickbait.

Why? The one reason I can see for it in the article boils down to it being a derisive and snarky way to make the same criticism, and you as an employee of Gawker have absolutely zero grounds for trying to tell people not to act in that fashion.

You really are going through some hoops to pretend that you guys don't do some shady ass things for clicks, which also pay your salaries.

tl,dr: Gawker writer complains

Are you actually trying to argue for some sort of nihilistic absence of standards?