The kind of arranged coverage I was referring to goes way back though. I can't think of a mass media outlet that doesn't have some kind of agenda behind it on some level.

Eh idk. I'm not in favor of it by any means but generally it doesn't prevent anyone from being covered if they're newsworthy and lesser publications would provide such services to lesser candidates like socialite and reality tv stars.

Editorial refers to the news and politics sections which aren't for sale in the same way as boutique coverage in the arts/culture section.

you might have just pioneered the genre of fictional astroturf

in some ways YouTube is less of an infinite resource than it used to be. now it's difficult to find a lot of music that used to be hosted on there for years. there used to be an 85% chance that the studio version of any given song or album would be on there, now it's less than 50-50.

Gilfoyle and Dinesh were my favorites, but Jared has really been coming into his own this season

it was 2006, and YouTube did revolutionize user created content back then. it's just so much more normalized now. and in subsequent years the quality of original content on YouTube significantly improved, with stuff like FPS Russia and Every Frame a Painting. The Lonelygirl15 series was never actually any good- really…

from what i remember, the storyline was forgettable garbage, and it was only the popularity of the cast and the initial videos that weren't attempting to tell much more of a story than the ordinary youtube vlogs they masqueraded as.

The Guardian is a quality publication, but I've often suspected they sell coverage through backdoor contacts, i.e you'd have to be in communication with them to begin with, which would require PR or an investor with contacts and you or your project would need to have some basic exposure elsewhere so that the…

it's definitely a paid for article, it would've been less blatant if they had just been straightforward about promoting the new episodes when they were interviewed.

2 things come to mind, the fact that Gilfoyle has more confidence than any other character in the show because he genuinely doesn't care what anyone thinks, and that when surrounded by the likes of Erlich, Richard, Dinesh and Jared, he probably looks like he's doing a lot better than he actually is.

no, because nobody cares about that team

so while i'll probably be checking this out, part of me is ambivalent about how releasing something like this goes against the artist's wishes to an extent that i'm somewhat uncomfortable- it's one thing to release demos and outtakes from the studio and tracks that they never wanted to release, but this is going even…

The illuminati is strong in this one. conspiracy websites are about to have an asteroid field day.

You might be right, but there's several reasons why I think it's the KC crime syndicate. That term is synonymous with the KC mafia, and there weren't many other crime organizations big enough to go corporate in the 70s, and most importantly, the KC mafia was taken down by a RICO case, which is kind of thematically…

it's not that he's good at tracking- it's that he's almost supernaturally so, which is an annoying noble savage trope.

The last time I commented on this show was when the AV club published its review of last season's finale. I strongly, strongly disliked the first season for being wooden and extremely derivative, with its positive aspects too few and far between to make up for its many failures.

oh i saw it coming, i just didn't think they'd short Joan on her partnership. like, they easily can afford to just buy her out and ask her to go away instead of forcing the McCann way on her under threat of extortion.

Jim Hobart is a POS

it is hilarious that he's being set up as the antagonist, and he's also literally villainous in the sense that he looks the part and works for the people that make agent orange.