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... I just wrote this this afternoon because it's been preying on my mind for literally years and I didn't want to draft this and then never post it because I'm too lazy to edit it. ... This is some real ephemeral, micro stuff afflicting a tiny corner of the internet that -- demographically -- happens to be my corner, and frankly if you don't already have a good working grasp of Gawker/Tumblr/HRO I'd stop right now. ...

Saw a link to this in more than one place today.

loooool

but you know LATE PASS dogg

i was reading gawker in '93

I read that whole thing and I still don't know exactly what he's complaining about.

I guess it's just now dawning on him that some people are uninteresting writers?

wasn't really interested in any of the ad hominem or gossipy sort of stuff going on in the blog post, but the stuff about how certain sectors of the internet can take on a certain tone definitely interests me. networks of blogs and message boards do sort of become their own little subcultures

i cdn't be bothered to read the whole thing... kinda parochial/self-important

i like those blogs too but

actually tho how is 'tumblr' in the same category as 'gawker' and 'hro'?

ehh

I am not familiar with basically anything he is discussing. However, reading it made me enormously self-conscious about my own manner of writing. It's like spending a week with my in-laws (some of whom, at last visit, were literally fighting about who loved Glenn Beck to the greater degree) – I get so worried I might sound even a tenth like that, and I clam up hardcore.

Like, I now have a fera of exclamation points. (A lifelong on and off fear thx to style manual h8rs of the thing.)

some of whom, at last visit, were literally fighting about who loved Glenn Beck to the greater degree

I'd set up a ring and sell popcorn.

OTOH this guy, whoever wrote this, is being maybe a bit hyperbolic.

actually tho how is 'tumblr' in the same category as 'gawker' and 'hro'?

similar audiences, i guess

i think 'people who have for a while read gawker (and subblogs) (and things which are not gawker but are in similar territory e.g. the awl)' and 'people who he identifies as the core users of tumblr' are pretty similar groups? They are definitely in overlapping venn diagrams. Like he says, it's the tiny corner of the internet which happens to be demographically his corner: a bunch of people who have spent the last few years reading Gawker (and etc), who now have a writing style whose shared elements are indebted to the Gawker house style.

Gawker house style is just snarky gossip column, no? Strictly hush hush and on the QT and all that jazz.

Like he says, it's the tiny corner of the internet which happens to be demographically his corner

something i always forget when i'm talking about "huge" web sites & blogs i visit. some of this stuff seems big b/c it's read by a lot of ppl in the same community, but really, i'd be interested to see the # of unique visitors a month

connecting tumblr to gawker is a bit of a stretch imo

have a lot of jumbled thoughts abt this guys thing

but i have to go engage in some passive-aggressive finickiness disguised as wit right now

Vadim and I use Tumblr very differently.

wasn't really interested in any of the ad hominem or gossipy sort of stuff going on in the blog post, but the stuff about how certain sectors of the internet can take on a certain tone definitely interests me.

"people who talk to each other end up sounding like each other" is as true in an editorial community as it is IRL imo

not a massive revelaish imo

a dude who's consistently been ilx's generator of OTM has written about this here http://bit.ly/bH4Zsy and http://bit.ly/c1HHF2

this is boring. i'm bored now.

^^

Brooklyn... Emily Gould... Gawker... obsession with New York City...

so mad i am actually au courant with this bullshit

also can i just say

when you're complaining about cute internet writing-isms, sentences like "That, more or less, was Phase I of Language Stuff That Makes Me Hate The Internet More Every Day," with its cute internet-style capitalizations, are not a good look.

needs more exclamation points