There’s a strange kind of “nothing to see”/non-story attitude AV Club is cultivating about this incident, even as they write approximately 12 articles about it an hour. Bizarre.

You don’t get to sneer about twitter takes when your contribution involves the same thing PLUS monetization on behalf of awful people.

“oh but what about”

“Kang, here’s a hypothetical ethical question: would you slap Sam Barsanti if-”

Even within the article Barsanti engages in the same behavior.

You could pin this comment at the top of every Barsanti article and it would apply.

Has everyone lined up to present their hot take on the Will Smith/Chris Rock thing from The Oscars? No need to get into separate groups for who you think is right or wrong, we’ll just be going through the entire population of the planet alphabetically to ensure both that everyone gets to throw in their two cents…

The tone of this post sucks. Fuck off, man. 

You’re every bully that thinks punching someone will make you feel better or stop the pain. And I guarantee Rock absolutely will.

Well, there was that time Jack Lemmon bodyslammed Dabney Coleman in the early 90s

Jesus, how much do deaf people masturbate???

Sure.

please don’t write this out because it only increases the likelihood that they do it. I’d be happy if he and his lame family were banned from the ceremonies forever. Send a clear message that trying to publicly score a point for your wife after an idiotic joke by committing assault won’t be tolerated even by Will Smith…

It will all have been worth it if, for next year’s Oscars, when he comes out to present Best Actress, they wheel Will Smith out in full Hannibal Lecter containment gear.

Why shouldn’t she be? That movie owns.

Proto Man Crisis Day 2 - Proto Man and Possible Child Sparr, Legitimacy of Child in Question

Oh, come now, he’s got The Bubble coming up - a comedy film about trying to shoot a franchise movie during the pandemic that stars David Duchovny, Lesley Mann, and Kate McKinnon, and is produced by and being exclusively released on Netflix-

By Sam Barsanti

The only thing that IS clear is that he reserves his greatest contempt for us, the readers.