That sort of cultural "common ground" which those were predicated on disappearing has to have some consequences. Growing up "everybody" watched Animaniacs- introducing deep and parodies based on a omnipresent cultural canon that just doesn't exist anymore. I have no idea what true children's cartoons (not like…

Hmm that's true. It's like when you've got the Powerpuff Girls making allusions like this:

It's like how Adlai Stevenson probably has more name recognition based on a couple jokes from The Simpsons than his contemporaries. Moral? Don't get in the sights of animators working for syndicated shows or your legacy is fucked.

"Oh, you think sociopathy is your ally, you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't think other people existed until I was already a man; by then, empathy was nothing to me but blinding… Barron will break the Bat!"

I'd guess his "desire" to be President is still at 100%, but subconsciously his lack of a ground game has almost sealed the deal. It's astounding how the polls keep reverting to a tie; if it wasn't for the sheer lack of anything resembling a traditional "get out the vote" infrastructure on Trump's end I'd be much…

There's a lot of circumstantial evidence that Jared was just playing the long con with Christie in order to extract vengeance.

Early Looney Tunes is like a total education in pop culture from the 1900-1950s. So many references to the animator's pop culture touchstones (Of Mice and Men, Peter Lorre, classical music, The Lost Weekend, etc) that it effectively served as a primer for American culture for generations. Now I guess the only show…

man, I'd trade ten years off my life if I could truly nail some off-duty chic while rocking Palazzo pants.

It's crazy how much influence that site had- things could have gone so different for Drew- there was probably a window where that website could have been worth hundreds of millions in VC if they had gone a different route.

Oh yeah, /r/Portland has turned into super reactionary hotbed of anti-homeless agitprop. One mod with a message to impart can heavily manipulate a forum. When you see how many local news articles are sourced from local Reddit posts the effect can be pretty major.

Gawker had tons of good features and reporting. Many of their alums have gone on to huge things, Adrian Chen (author of this expose) won a Pulitzer a few years ago for a piece in the NY Times. Yes there were stupid articles, some indefensible ones, but on the whole they did much more good than bad.

Reddit can handle small forums pretty well. Almost any niche hobby or interest probably has a dedicated subreddit with extremely passionate users providing a great repository for related resources. This happy state can only last for so long; the subreddit either implodes through mod drama or explodes into…

That was one of the three big events that made me leave Reddit. Another was the reaction to the "doxxing" of Violentacrez (reddit's beloved "dirty uncle", infamous for posting as much racist crap, misogyny and jailbait as would be legally permissible), showing that the majority of the site really was there for the…

Don't criticize the Univision/Fusion Editorial Family (English Edition).

Reddit literally bullied their CEO into quitting through concentrated gendered and racist attacks

"Bane broke Night Owl's spine, Silk Spectre got stuffed into a refrigerator and Rorschach had his face cut off then stapled back on"

I still can't forgive them for what a pisspoor job they did bringing 'Stormwatch' and 'The Authority' over into main continuity.

"Death in the Family" was such an overhyped shitshow. Terrible comic.

I always really liked that conception of Earth Prime. It definitely suffered when they introduced Superboy Prime but I always liked the original idea.

"Why I declare Doctor Minor, it is those cursed Children of Judah responsible for all the worlds woe! Has there ever been a spot of belligerence which did not have an Israelite at its core?"