I may or may not have given your post a star. There’s no way to know.

I starred this. I really did. I promise.

It sure used to be, amigo- it sure used to be...[lines Ram tough truck bed with WeatherTech]

How on earth am I supposed to know what to like if I can’t tell what everyone else likes this is bullshit

Paragraph? That term would be used quite loosely for whatever that final diatribe is. It’s nonsensical. And that last part - pure jibberish.

The comments here are making me smile. They are also making me feel old. However, I must agree! I love reading, but there were just TOO MANY WORDS. I got lost in the wordiness-ness of it all! There were some well thought out points; but, dear writer, editing is your friend. Let your words keep me afloat; no need to…

in my experience, mexican/hispanic people are waaaaaay more racist, and open about it, towards black people than any white person ive ever met

But how else is the author going to show how intelligent he is and the depth of his understanding?!?!

But, seriously, I’m an attorney and I deal with some difficult to understand concepts pretty regularly. Some of them are difficult for people who are formally educated in law to understand, and many of them are…

If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance...

Seriously. I coined the phrase “Twitter polling” for this specific kind of article. All you need to confirm a trend is a few complete randos on social media doing more-or-less similar things. Then you can write a think piece about “white girls,” performativity, or whatever, and it’s fact.

I didn’t finish the post (got about half way before it lost my interest). I know the goal is to push out content for the clickz and Mark Twain would have written a shorter letter if only he had more time, but writing then revising (and trying to cut down the length/words) would REALLY go a long way here.

I think there’s a difference between “complaining about posts” and noting that someone either never listened to a writing professor/teacher or never had a good one (specifically w/r/t length or verboseness =/= quality and is often the enemy of effective writing).

It’s like nobody ever told some of these folks that good writing involves having a first draft, then trying to cut that in half.

I generally don’t like complaining about posts... but good lord that last paragraph made my eyes glaze over.

For real, there’s some really interesting stuff here, with ideas that don’t toe the normal Fusion/Gawker line (i.e. Natalie is as much a latent racist as she is a trangressive dissident of an overly performative digital age), but it sure takes an awfully verbose route.

RIGHT? The whole time I skimmed (because who could read every word), all I could think was man, this is really poorly written. #fuckingmillennials

“full of sound and fury signifying nothing”

I kept reading waiting for it to circle back, to question whether “is joke racism okay?” or “are internet vigilantes bad?” or “are young people that make foolish choices self-accountable?” (they fucking should be) and yet I never got that (though admittedly I was glazed over…

What about when ALF says it?

Geez. This is an extremely long article that really does not say much. A professor I once had would have labeled this as an “inflated essay”

Imagine a world, where content creators are paid by the word....
/BLACK MIRROR!