Counterpoint: letting Twitter bullshit determine your articles is dumb.

Same here. This is a garbage article. Misleading and omitting pertinent details topped off with lots of judgement.

Did you morons not even bother to check The Root article that covered this same non-issue? I get it, none of you are actual journalists, and have no integrity, and this is really big on Twitter and social media, but damn, you could have just not posted this and saved yourselves the humility maybe just this once. 

I genuinely can’t wrap my mind around how so many seemingly intelligent writers actually, truly believe that this says anything at all about Ellie Kemper’s character. Just insane, the bubbles some people live in.

When I saw this trending on Twitter, I thought, “This is EXACTLY the type of story the current AV Club will write about without doing any work to put it into context.” So, yeah.

Welcome to: When Reposting Twitter Drama Goes Wrong - AV Club Edition.

Kemper was 19 years old when she was selected to be the Queen Of Love And Beauty. At that age, teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.

I know this is hard to fathom, but Barsanti is only like the 4th or 5th worst writer/most full of shit on AV Club at this point.

You know, AVC, you can’t regularly call Twitter a shitty hell website and then give in to its worst tendencies constantly.

Was really hoping AVC wouldn’t report on this nonsense. But of course they did.

You guys have printed a fair amount of extraordinarily weak outrage-seeking shit over the past couple years, but this might take the cake. I rate this clickbait seven “UGH”s out of a possible five.

The AV Club needs fewer Vice and Buzzfeed hires. 

Oh man, you didn’t check in to see how this insane stretch of a nothing-burger was getting roasted over at The Root? Cause it’s getting no traction there, and it feels like their readership should know.

I’m not sure I see how she’s to blame for anything.

Kemper was 19 years old when she was selected to be the Queen Of Love And Beauty. At that age, teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.

I keep getting reminded that Chinese Communist Party defenders use the same what-about playbook as Faux News misinformation addicts.

Fun fact: You can not approve of a country’s actions without turning into crazed racists.

“Otherwise, a PR “fuck-up” could cost the studio hundreds of millions of dollars, and countless people their livelihoods.”

Ah, this seems like important context that should’ve been mentioned in the article, but forget it, Captain Bubb... it’s the AV Club. 

I couldn’t give a shit about Yang one way or the other, but is running as the hip-hop candidate or something? I couldn’t come up with a Jay-Z song off the top of my head, but I couldn’t tell you a Maroon 5 song without Google either. Who cares?