Baby boomer parents: “My child is special. She should get a trophy just for being on the soccer team. After all, I paid for it, and she did participate!”

What’s funny is that people are so convinced that being an actor is a special talent that no one else but the rarefied few can do. As if “losing” Kevin Spacey would be some sort of impactful event. But it wouldn’t!

You are defending the guy

I feel like snark journalism is a collapsed souffle at this point. It hit is peak of being entertaining and useful way back in the Gawker heyday. Now everything is like “nothing matters lol” but uh you still have a job? So stuff does matter, if you want to stay employed? I am particularly sick of the “we are in hell”/…

Yeah I mean I don’t want to shit on the younger writers. Even the last crop, with Maddie and Bobby, seemed to have more of a unique spark than these current kids coming in. But I don’t want to pile on. It’s not their fault that Facebook has essentially dynamited the internet as we once knew it, and they’re trying to…

Until someone calls them out for not being journalistic. Then they’re “bloggers”or some shit.

No doubt there are a lot of Britons who feel this way, but the “people on Twitter said this thing” has to be one of my least favorite pieces of new journalism. There are people on Twitter who say they want to fuck Gritty. We gonna write a story about that now? Actually someone on Giz media probably already has.