Oh, fair enough. Pathetic is a pretty loaded word, and all too often cued up to insult. Cheerfully withdrawn.

But I mean, you know he wasn't trying to impress you with his private, mostly secret addiction, right? Like, you know that people don't pick and choose their personal demons in relation to your opinion of them? Right?

Oh, you poor thing. I think you've lost all capability to figure out if you even believe the shit you type.

It's a shitty troll that can't outlast its target.

I'm employing a critical eye when I say that this PR stunt that cynically pretends to flirt with satire in order to drive traffic to their actual art degrades the notion of aesthetic enterprise and is a sign that YACHT's actual artistic subject is the most boring one of them all: themselves. It's opportunistic,…

That's wonderful. I'm an artist, too. It has absolutely no chilling effect on my work, nor on the work of my friends and colleagues, to raise concerns about the various trappings of the marketplace masquerading as art. If anything, conversations that force us to define more properly for ourselves the purpose and…

As someone who appreciates artists saying things they actually mean, God save me from hearing that shit, too.

I guess I don't totally disagree with that, but I think what makes my eyes roll is that their response totally skirted the second part and tried to froof up the first with meaningless art-school talking points.

See, this is where your whole argument is just laughable. You have no reason to say I'm signaling virtue, other than some vague notion that other people must be. You give yourself a pass for the very same behavior, though.

My god. The lack of self-awareness is just baffling.

Whose parade am I pissing on by saying this cynical PR stunt has nothing to do with art?

Yes. On a public forum, I responded to you about my take on the situation at hand. You couldn't handle that I have perspective that I have, so you resorted to bitching about people like me gets offended by everything (without a hint of self-awareness, hilariously). And here we are.

No. I didn't say the backlash is imaginary. I said that it's not an argument against any one complaint to say that, because you've heard people complain about other things before, any complaint is just pearl-clutching.

Do you… do you really think that response has anything to do with what I said? Or are you just trying to actively demonstrate how much you didn't understand?

Are you so unclear as to the nature of the internet that you keep confusing individuals with the group?

Go whine about it at Gawker, then.

That's great. Thanks for the explanation of how the world works.

I didn't think it was hilarious when it happened to Hulk Hogan, so again, not sure what your point is. If you want to have a discussion with me, don't come in swinging your dick all blind-like.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

Well, I for one hadn't heard of this yesterday. Today I have heard about it. If I'm offended by anything here, it's this cynical masking of clear marketing tactics as a work of art. I also think they're finelining of what could potentially be offensive here is myopic and self-interested.