thought catalog

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewnewton/2012/02/08/thought-catalog-and-the-new-age-of-confessional-media/

“David Shapiro” is 22 and lives in Brooklyn and writes a tumblr about music

http://twitter.com/thinkingcatalog

butt catalog

lock thread

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/matthewnewton/files/2012/01/chris-lavergne_noah-kalina1.jpg

t-shirt catalog

i just read the first two articles on thought catalog and... wow

thinkingcatalog otm

http://www.observer.com/2012/02/thought-catalog-finally-gets-the-forbes-profile-it-deserves/

Still not ready to take Thought Catalog seriously? For the record, there are some things about the Q & A that are strange enough to reaffirm any doubts one might have about the company.

The Thought Catalog founder is shown in a sexy, v-neck portrait shot by Noah Kalina.
The Thought Catalog founder will not disclose his age or his previous employer, a Wall Street consulting firm.
The journalist interviewing him has contributed over 60 articles to Thought Catalog.

The journalist interviewing him has contributed over 60 articles to Thought Catalog.

looool whut

Whatever the deal is with the place, I must always thank them for this piece. Specifically the third section.

like 90% of forbes content now is like personal blogs by unpaid contributors

http://twitter.com/thinkingcatalog

― max, Thursday, February 9, 2012 8:34 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thinkingcatalog otm

― buzza, Thursday, February 9, 2012 11:39 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

butt catalog

wtf is this bullshit

via j0rd

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-10-worst-rap-lyrics-of-all-time/

it depresses me that "get college kids to write about shit" still remains a viable business model in 2012

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/matthewnewton/files/2012/01/chris-lavergne_noah-kalina1.jpg

the writer's tumblr and twitter are the most depressing things

3. IF YOU THINK YOU SHOULD BE PAID OR OTHERWISE COMPENSATED FOR YOUR CONTENT, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT IT TO US THROUGH THIS FORUM. THIS FORUM IS INTENDED ONLY FOR PERSONS WHO BELIEVE THEY WILL BENEFIT PERSONALLY OR PROFESSIONALLY FROM OUR PUBLICATION OF THEIR CONTENT WITHOUT COMPENSATION. You acknowledge that you are not entitled compensation or reimbursement of any kind for your Content.

that's a magical lawsuit shieldy thing erected to avoid what huffpo went through

Our content is always vetted and (most of the time) edited.

In a small way, you’re supporting the future of journalism.

https://twitter.com/ThoughtCatalog/status/269099345775824896/photo/1

I must always thank them for this piece. Specifically the third section.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, February 9, 2012

Congratulations, Ned Raggett, you may already be a winner in the Publisher's Clearinghouse All-Internet Sweepstakes!

The first four titles are provocative, relatable works of nonfiction and fiction that entertain and inform. In Cover Story, New York City-based writer Liz Colville weaves together stories of love, lust and identity, featuring 14 distinct narratives. Going Down South is a darkly humorous "novelette" about a nihilistic young Brooklynite who somehow finds himself in the American south trying to seduce a young, religious woman. Its writer, Dan Hoffman, was dubbed by Thought Catalog readers as a hybrid of Larry David and Tucker Max.

Take Out Your Earrings Before You Fight is Chelsea Fagan's sardonic take on what you learn—and don't—in the American public school system. Fagan is a staff writer at ThoughtCatalog.com. How To Be A 20-Something is a compilation of 19 hilarious, sad and honest personal essays, written by and for 20-somethings. Thought Catalog Senior Staff Editors Stephanie Georgopulos and Brandon Scott Gorrell compile work from writers including, Giancarlo DiTrapano, Ryan O'Connell and Brad Pike.

Thought Catalog founder Chris Lavergne said, "We want to experiment with longform writing and tablet extensions. We receive emails every day asking for books, so the demand is there. We don't really know where it will lead; we just think it will be an interesting venture for us from both a literary and business standpoint."

Its writer, Dan Hoffman, was dubbed by Thought Catalog readers as a hybrid of Larry David and Tucker Max.

Good god, kill this thing before it breeds.

wow the cutting edge funny

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/your-honor-i-believed-the-photos-would-be-gone-forever/

i like this website's use of stock photographs.

Whatever the deal is with the place, I must always thank them for this piece. Specifically the third section.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:50 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Belated congratulations on your victory.

Sadly I'm firmly in the "People Who Have Forgotten What They Were Supposed to Be Doing" category. And not just on the Internet :(

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/the-5-best-compliments-my-dick-has-ever-gotten/

this is actually what

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i90/mag121286/itsperfect.jpg

I have to say that reading "Christopher Trojanowski"'s butthurt defense of "Larry Hardin"'s post against every single negative comment made that whole thing worth reading

http://thoughtcatalog.com/books/

sorry guys, I never saw this thread before, but I have to admit I write fiction as "larry hardin"

A novelette about a nihilistic young man from New York City, “Going Down South” depicts an isolated and apathetic way of navigating life and romance in a way that will resonate with most Millennials. When Jared Steinfarb decides that his life in Brooklyn has grown too dissolute, he moves in with an old friend from college who is studying to be a minister in Nashville, Tennessee. There, he meets Sylvia, an earnest Christian girl from the Midwest — she becomes an opportunity for his depravity to reach new depths, as Jared finds that his lecherous nature has followed him down south.

As a Jew I just want to complain that Steinfarb is not even a real name, it's just a glom of two Jewish phonemes that somebody pasted together to make an extra-Jewy sounding name. Like having a Korean character in your book and naming him Park Lee Kim.

I mean, I doubt that's the worst thing about that book, just what jumped out at me from the blurb.

sylvia, the prototypical name for earnest midwestern christian girls

should've named her "Greenpointberg"

Some percentage of the articles they run has got to be Sokal hoaxes.

Reddit has spawned an incredible amount of little factoids delivered straight from the lives of the users, who all readily reveal themselves (truthfully or deceitfully, one can never tell) to take the weight off their shoulders, confess their minds, reveal parts of themselves that they never could in real life, for closure, for help, to leave a little part of their life on the web that they can never forget. This book highlights some of the funnier, more provocative, soul-punching, salacious commentary provided by the users of Reddit.

wtf is this site?

Weird, bad situation these writers are in where there are hundreds of TC style websites which will take their articles for free, but because there are so many surely they can't get much from this in terms of reputation for future hiring?

speed jive, don't want to be writing original content when you're 25

I could be assuming there, but like, if you were the editor of a newspaper and you wanted to hire a journalist would TC count as experience/portfolio?

depends on what kinds of pieces they are running and how much name recognition they have built through thought catalog. site gets a lot of readers.

I'm really glad that I spend 24 hours a day not reading thought catalog

you might not get thought catalog, but thought catalog gets you.TM

soviet thought catalog

thought crimelog

t-shirt catalog

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:37 AM (1 year ago)

if not for this immortal burn i might have wasted several hours total reading linked-to thortcatalog posts and wondering if maybe i shouldn't give it a chance

The story behind these websites is always far more interesting than the stories they publish.

That 'faux naive blogger voice' and helpful, anonymous presentation/graphics they all have makes me imagine all kinds of horrors lurking just beneath

ladies and gentlemen are you ready to hateclick "To The Millennial I Left My Wife For (And 8 Parting Words Of Advice)"

http://thoughtcatalog.com/anonymous/2014/02/to-the-millennial-i-left-my-wife-for-and-8-parting-words-of-advice/

that is even more patronizing than that thing i recently wrote about shia labeouf. more patronizing even than that thing i wrote about GIRLS.

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/matthewnewton/files/2012/01/chris-lavergne_noah-kalina1.jpg

"I hope to be able to masturbate again without stopping because I can only see your body and your face."

A Woman You Pissed Off • 4 hours ago

Thought Catalog has nice articles and all, but this is the first bullshit I've read here.

the first

thought catalog has always sucked but still, i've enjoyed watching it degenerate to the level it's at now. the best are the commenters. with each new article you'll find a loyal longtime reader claiming that they're walking away from thought catalog this time for good.

thank you for that insight james franco, noted reader of thought catalog

http://thoughtcatalog.com/tag/dolphins/

Genius.

https://twitter.com/jackeeharry/status/555488238765625345

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-tNuZKUMAAjiRE.png

p sure you, or whoever did it, could have just kept rolling with the higlighting

never has the name "thought catalog" been more apt

fraught catalogue

"Lauren" Jones

https://twitter.com/evepeyser/status/759798238023122944

oh shit, it's real, kind of expected it to be a mocked up link
http://thoughtcatalog.com/holly-riordan/2016/07/23-ways-to-make-him-cum-fast-and-hard-during-a-blowjob/

from Holly Riordan's archive: http://quotecatalog.com/hollyriordan/collections/50-quotes-about-the-power-of-pussy-thatll-teach-you-to-use-your-feminine-charm-to-get-what-you-want

i don't understand what happened to this site. it was always garbage, but the content always used to make sense together... it was a trash site for "millennials," vaguely aligned with "alt lit" writers. now they publish 100 articles a day and half of them are lists.

it me, the person who gets paid to repost instagram accounts in toto http://thoughtcatalog.com/jessica-winters/