You know, if The Simpsons just stopped pretending the modern A.V. Club was relevant, we’d all be better off.

It’s a stretch to say they were doing well—their operating margin was down to around 2% before they were sold and they would’ve had a very rough road with the rise of Amazon and the recession over the following years, even without the LBO—but your larger point is correct.

I think i’m done with th AV Club,peace out

That’s pretty unacceptable, dude.

Alex,

You used words that fit a rhythm of information you learned in college.

You didn’t use them because they made any contextual sense, or represented anything about the reality of this journalistic apparatus.

And you don’t even have the courtesy to feign self-awareness when someone reintroduces journalistic ideals…

“general cynicism for promotional nonsense” lol you’re thinking of pre-Kinja AV Club bud. Every single article on your site has an auto-play video embedded right in the middle of it. Some articles are preceded, interrupted by, AND footnoted with advertisements. This “entertainment criticism” website has a section…

“If you’re an A.V. Club reader, you probably share our general cynicism for promotional nonsense.”

Didn’t that accusation come out long after he left?

I thought the entire point of Ready Player One was that we were all garbage consumerists recycling crap from our childhoods and ignoring true human interaction. And that doing so is also a lot of fun. People always say that like it’s a criticism of the book (and now I guess movie) but that’s the entire point of the…

Any chance you fuckin idiots can use embedded video that has volume controls it’s 2018 for christs sake.

Not disclosing sponsored posts anymore?

Will I be able to understand this if I haven’t seen the Pink Panther?

That’s funny, here are two different articles from the AVC produced in the past 6 months about how useless RottenTomatoes is as a scoring mechanism:

The mole rat will be CGI.

Come on, you guys, not like this. It’s gonna be a musical with lots of bad acting and Dove Cameron as Kim.

WHAT THE FUCK, AV Club? Obviously this was supposed to go up tomorrow night, right? You just spoiled the fucking show! Is no one minding the store? Did no one see Search Party in the Whats On Tonight article immediately preceding this interview?

Because what does someone whose career has spanned some of the worst of Hollywood sexism know.

Too bad the AV Club community died on its way to its home planet. What’s left is just a few of us, stuck with oblivious, annoyingly sanctimonious millennials who’ve become “woke” overnight by reading the other Kinja sites from the comfort of their own parents’ homes, and are only here to lecture us, because we…

Wow, what a piece of shit site this has become. Not only is the highly annoying, possible illegal act of inflating page count number “clicks” by having the scrolling story features, but dozens of typos I notice on a weekly basis as well.

Holy crap, Kinja Improve has been improved!