"area man" (hurrburgring)
12/12/2013 at 12:40 • Filed to: Gawker
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"area man" (hurrburgring)
12/12/2013 at 12:40 • Filed to: Gawker | 2
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Back in June, Denton decided to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of all his Gawker writers' page views per day/week/month available to the public. According to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , a lot of the other writers are getting uncomfortable at how much Neetzan Zimmerman pulls in. So, desperate times...
McMike
> area man
12/12/2013 at 12:45 |
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It's sad really.
I suppose there's an art to writing the perfect headline, but these guys are taking it too far. When it's a competition to see who can write the most race-political-hate click-baiting headline and story, we're all being trolled.
It's not even news reporting, or an opinion piece. It's a trolling attempt to keep people coming back and arguing about it.
This is not based on any journalism experience or training when I say this: Fuck those guys.
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area man
> McMike
12/12/2013 at 12:47 |
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Agreed. It's like a monster eating its own tail... or something. Fuck 'em.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> area man
12/12/2013 at 12:47 |
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Dang he's done shit all in the past month or so.
Walfisch
> area man
12/12/2013 at 12:52 |
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I guess this means that there are a lot of angry people on the internet, who simply go for the most hate-mongering headlines, and rage-inducing articles to feed off their blood lust behind the safety of their monitors.
Glad I'm not one of those.
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Walfisch
> McMike
12/12/2013 at 13:02 |
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I guess the entry-level for (online) journalism is not that high, after all. If you can string together letters and words that make people really, REALLY angry, then you can pass off as a writer.
m2m, apex detective
> area man
12/12/2013 at 13:06 |
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So ... guess where I went after looking at these uniques?
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McMike
> area man
12/12/2013 at 13:09 |
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Poor Graverobber.
joemcm
> McMike
12/12/2013 at 13:13 |
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The way I see it, Jalopnik is a subsidy of Gawker Media, so if their title site needs clicks, I'll give them if it's entertaining, which this undeniably was. Stringing together anti-hipster rants and posting hotdogs and Miatas on a site collectively was fun. Now its over... until they realize they struck gold and start to overuse this exploit. I will defend the virtues of the automobile until we're all teleporting, but if you're just gonna provoke me all the time, go fuck yourself and have fun on the subway sitting next to that pile of unidentified liquid. I'll be in my car, on a spirited drive, out in the country away from it all, loving life.
I think this one time, I'll let it slide and chock it up to good fun that happens to help this guy out. If they try to exploit our passion, on a regular basis, I'll stop clicking, plain as that.
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area man
> McMike
12/12/2013 at 13:14 |
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Ha, something tells me he doesn't care.
deadpedal
> McMike
12/12/2013 at 13:43 |
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I'm sure he wears it as a badge of honor. Consistency and whatnot.
Also, CP...
William Byrd
> McMike
12/12/2013 at 14:19 |
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Yeah I was going to say, I replaced "gawker" with "jalopnik" in that URL.
http://jalopnik.com/stats/graph/un…
Matt Hardigree
> area man
12/12/2013 at 15:41 |
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This is a bit funny, but anyone would love to work with Neetzan because it takes all the pressure off of them. Also, I don't think the intention was to be click-baity, I think the intention was to be funny.
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area man
> Matt Hardigree
12/12/2013 at 15:50 |
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I'm sure it came off harsher than I intended, but all the talk of click-baiting reminded me of reading that article last week. Obviously, what you just said is much closer to way professional bloggers actually think about these things rather than "everyone's nervous about Neetzan."
Although I still don't think it was supposed to be funny for us, I think it was supposed to be funny for Gawker's audience... at our expense. Especially since Patrick's point about all the other gift guides being light-hearted yet serious efforts rings true.
Stef Schrader
> area man
12/12/2013 at 18:46 |
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?!
TRAVIS AND ZAC, YOU ARE CLEARLY SLIPPING.