Remember when the A.V. Club used to do deep dives into like the 2000's Midwest punk scene and there’d be like 500 comments?

Jesus fucking Christ. I know this site has gone to absolute shit, and the current writers are barely literate, let alone capable of media literacy, but COME ON.

For anyone else wondering if the headline age (95) or the article age (91) is the correct one, it’s the headline.

I feel like a lot of earlier stuff mentioned on here (Betty Boop, Fritz the Cat, Heavy Metal) pays into an even worse characterization that animation is only for kids AND perverts.

This is one of those incredible ouroboros headlines. Lambasting clickbait while being clickbait? Could something possibly be more on-brand for this site? Extraordinary.

I hope when you turn this in to your HS English class you get that B+ you’re angling for.

What I've heard about the Hadrian situation is that he was a bit too touchy-feely with young Antinous and that the boy's fatal fall into the Nile may have been due to a lover's quarrel with the Emperor, thus his extravagant grief and all the statues of the deceased.

I think AV Club loves hearing that a beloved icon might not be a great person; it’s easy content and they don’t have to, like, think about movies

So the choices for Word of the Year were part of a word or two words...

Sir, this is a Wendy’s. 

“Everyone is sick of reading about Olivia Wilde. Everyone’s mother and everyone’s brother-in-law is sick of reading about Olivia Wilde. Ever since spitgate—and even before—it seems like not a day has gone by where we’ve been granted one moment’s peace from reading about Olivia Wilde—especially on Twitter.”

av club blaming olivia wilde on their endless coverage of olivia wilde. i guess that tracks. 

You know you don’t actually have to write about her, right? You’re tired of reading about her but yet you keep propagating the very thing you’re complaining about seeing too much of. Weird how that works.

“it seems like not a day has gone by where we’ve been granted one moment’s peace from reading about Olivia Wilde—especially on Twitter.”

The trailer for this movie has a joke that says:

See, this response probably made you feel nice and snarky, but the fact that you care more about us reading than us enjoying what we’re reading is kind of the problem.

“Either way, the punchline feels gimmicky in a gross way...”

“Good grief—if the Oscars and the Super Bowl aren’t safe spaces for celebrities anymore, then whatis?”

It was a G. I. Jane joke, dude.

“Either way, the punchline feels gimmicky in a gross way, especially seeing as Simpson ranks among the most maligned murder victims of all time.”