Eat Shit, Oppo

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko)
11/16/2020 at 07:15 • Filed to: Oppositelock, Oppo, Roast, East Shit, herb, fuck you spanfeller

Goddamnit, this is it.

This is the end of Oppo on Kinja, and the absolute worst part of this? Us mods got beaten to the punch to banning all of you little shits. I mean, come on, our one dream as moderators, banning everyone and shutting off the lights, got taken by an Herb. Yes folks, oppositelock.kinja.com is now becoming Jimmy Spanfeller’s Used Dildo and Vibrator Emporium.

This is what we deserve.

I’ve been here since the beginning of Kinja and a mod for like 7 years or some shit. Somehow I posted enough and commented enough on the posts, including the nudie posts (remember those? Pepperidge Farms remembers the nudie posts), the other mods decided that I seemed like a reasonable dude with a level head and they brought me into the fold.

WELL JOKE’S ON THEM.

As you all know, I’ve ruled with an absolute iron fist, banning, ninja editing, banning, de-embiggening, more banning, and telling you all to to knock it off with the fucking theme days. You fuckers and your theme days. God how I loathe the theme days. Every single time one pops up I have to nip that shit in the bud. These theme days are why the Herb is taking us down. I warned you fucks, but noooooooo, you didn’t listen.

I don’t get paid for this shit, yet I keep coming back for more. Everyday you people find something new and interesting and that’s what makes this place awesome. This place is my second job and definitely takes up way too much of my days, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You lovable bunch of the dorkiest of dorks. From the ashes of Kinja we shall rise again on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Eat shit Oppo… !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Patrick George:

Oh, Oppo.

For the longest time, you were like the ne’er-do-well son I never had, and never wanted. The one I’d tell my friends was finally going to make something of himself very soon— He’s thinking of getting certified as an EMT this year, you see —before I had to bail him out of jail for selling bootleg Top Gear DVDs out of a rusted Toyota T100. Again.

You see, despite obvious lies from a certain Herb about new copyright laws or whatever, Oppo did in fact give me my share of headaches in the 53 human years I ran Jalopnik. Countless stolen image claims. Irate automaker PR folks furious about some post that I hadn’t even read. Endless criticism about “the FP” and my writers, much of it just completely uninformed bullshit. (“Jalopnik was better before Gawker bought it.” That sort of thing.)

But here’s the thing: that was the whole point. Oppo was a unique place full of unique people—a community of car enthusiasts that sprang up in Jalopnik’s shadow, then grew and thrived independently of it. Hour rule, memes, wrenching advice, great photography, road trips, crazy stories—by readers and for other readers. It was the inmates running the asylum, and it was beautiful.

I also can’t deny Oppo’s value to this industry as a talent farm. Tons of writers and editors, including people I still work with today, came into the professional fold through Oppo posts. Even when Oppo drove me nuts, by God, it always had my respect. (And by the way, some of those digs on the FP writers were justified more often than I wanted to admit. Good readers keep you honest, and in that way, Oppo was full of good readers.)

In a more perfect world, this potential would’ve been cultivated and nurtured by whatever group of ghouls owned Jalopnik that week. They would’ve sorted out the legal issues, worked with the mods more directly, and turned it into something big and awesome and open to all. But the fact is, somebody was always trying to kill Oppo, and I guess its luck finally ran out.

On Kinja, at least. If there’s one thing I know, it’s that car enthusiasts find a way. It’s who we are. It’d be dumb to count you jokers out. I look forward to wherever you land next, and I hope it’s a place your community can grow beyond your wildest expectations.

Good luck, Opponauts. And eat shit, all of you!

-Patrick George, retired weekend blogger

Ernie Deeb:

I’m not sure how I became entwined with Oppositelock, but one thing I know is that my life has been worse ever since. I appreciate the thought the collective consciousness gave in considering me Kinja’s Neo, but I don’t recall Trinity or Morpheus ever telling Neo to “fix it” when the Matrix failed to render their keystrokes in order on Windows Phone 7. The number of hoops I jumped through to keep Oppo happy satisfied from complaining minute-by-minute about its existence was done really only for my own sanity. But sadly, the intersection of obscure cars, photography, the 70s or maybe 80s, anime, bad music, and whatever the hell else happened on Oppo afterhours was and still is relevant to my interests.

I wake up every day cursing this dumb bond I have with a “blog” that should have been nuked half a decade ago. I suppose something as stubborn and indestructible as Oppo demands respect. Cantankerous Oppo, offered an honorable, merciful death on a platform that has gone to absolute shit since I left but decides instead to take the dying hoopty to an abandoned parking lot to do 20mph loops until the wheels fall off.

Farewell Oppo. You were a perpetual thorn in Ernie @ Kinja’s side, but you were a thorn I never wanted or never made the attempt to remove. Fuck Jim Spanfeller.

Stef Schrader:

I was !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! when I asked if I could be an OppositeLock moderator, but against all better judgement, Arch Duke Maxyenko added me to the moderator list earlier this year (Let the record reflect that this was a group decision -Arch Duke Maxyenko). Yet at a time when no one else in cars seemed to want me around, Oppo still did.

I’ve been on OppositeLock since 2013, when the idea of a Jalopnik-reader group blog lured me in to post about Puffalumps, track days and cheese. I met some of my best friends here, going on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , touring the southwest while !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! a leaky aircooled, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and even spending a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Eventually, writing about cars became my full-time job, but I kept posting on Oppo and reading what everybody else had to say, which included everything from weird cars they’ve discovered to updates on their lives. Oppo is home.

Oppo’s biggest strength as a community is its open, welcoming attitude, which I’m sure will continue wherever we go from here. Some of the most active Oppos are folks who don’t typically feel at home in other car groups, and the group is better for it. We actively defend each other whenever some loser doesn’t follow Oppo’s number-one rule. It doesn’t matter who you are as long as you’re excellent to each other. Oppo has grown into one of the most diverse and interesting car groups I can think of, and I don’t call it the Internet’s only good website for nothing.

It meant a lot to be picked as one of OppositeLock’s moderators at a time when I was feeling like a soon-to-be-forgotten failure. This razor-sharp, clever bunch of posters made room for me, a washed-up automotive writer who doesn’t lift a finger for under three figures. I didn’t deserve this kindness.

I do deserve to get paid, however. Please see the attached invoice. Payment is due upon receipt, net 30. Pitter patter, I have a Porsche engine to rebuild.

Photo: Jim Spanfeller

Dusty Ventures:

I know this is supposed to be a roast, but fuck it I just can’t. Oppo has been my home for over a decade, dating back to when to post in Oppo you had to end your post with the hashtag #oppositelock for it to show up. Over the years I’ve had the honor of meeting dozens of Oppos across the country. Oppos looked at cars for me when I was car shopping, Oppos crewed my rally teams, Oppos kept me sane during the pandemic by indulging in my silly scavenger hunt. When I look back over the last ten years it’s amazing how much of my achievements over the last ten years are tied to Oppo. From my rally stories that got front paged and led to new co-drives, to road trip suggestions, to my shenanigans with writers like Raph and Mike and my friendship/nemesisship with Stef. Oppo got me featured on TV, on a Jalopnik made show, on a channel that I didn’t even get (let’s be honest, it’s a channel no one gets, but still). Going back through my archive saving things has been such a nostalgia bomb.

But I think the biggest tribute to Oppo has been its response to the news of the site being shut down. No one accepted this as the end, everyone immediately snapped into action creating a new home. The work done on DriveTribe (is it one word or two, someone help me) has been impressive, but what Jminer has done on hyphen in just a couple weeks with RallyDarkstrike and Jb boin has been absolutely amazing. They built an independent home out of nothing, that’s the spirit of Oppo.

So to everyone who has made Oppo what it is, both the people who are here now and the ones who left their marks on their way through, thank you. It’s been an honor to be here with all of you. I couldn’t have asked to be a part of a better group. And thank you to the staff of Jalopnik, past and present, from the ones who gave us this clubhouse in the first place, to the ones who would come and hang out here with us, to the ones who went to war time and time again, both publicly and privately, to defend us and our home. As far as I’m concerned you’re Oppos as well and you will always be welcome in our new home(s).

If you’re not following the Oppo Twitter and Oppo Instagram [Dukey, please add links] (Fine, have it your way. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ) I’ll do my best to post updates over there as they come. See y’all on the other side.

-Steven “Dusty Ventures” Harrell

HammerheadFistpunch:

Party-vi:

The chicken parm was real, you fucks.

Slackbot:

Shall I ready the Banhammer? (/Tears up/ Yes, Slackbot, yes. -Arch Duke Maxyenko)

For Sweden:

Brian,TheLife

I’ll never forget this stupid community and I wish you all the best life. Maybe we’ll run into each other in the Ether or at some random cars n coffee.

Also, get bent, Herb.

Collin Woodard

When Stef asked me to contribute to this farewell to Oppo, I wasn’t sure I wanted to contribute. Roasts are great, and I’d like to think I’m good at them, but I also can’t actually bring myself to roast Oppo. It just wouldn’t be fair because I basically owe Oppo my life.

Rewind to that time when your Oppo post could get front-paged, and some idiot named Michael Ballaban (RIP) decided it would be a good idea to share a thing I wrote. Using the most masterful of arguments, I’d explained why he should be allowed to get married in a car club, and everyone agreed I was right.

Over the next couple of months, Jalopnik editors front-paged several more of my Oppo posts. I may have been living in North Georgia at the time, and I may have lacked a college degree, but since I had the approval of some of the (beloved) dumbasses who wrote for Jalopnik, I got it in my head that I might possibly have what it takes to become an automotive journalist.

I knew it would be hard, but I was also a waiter in his mid-20s. Surely, automotive journalism couldn’t be more difficult than working full-time at Steak n Shake, right? At the very least, it would be less sweaty and involve fewer high school show choirs showing up at 1 am.

Turns out, yes, it was. But I actually made it my career, ended up working at some of the most prestigious outlets, started my own site, and still get paid to write about cars. Could I have done it without dumbasses like Ballaban, Patrick George, and even Doug Demuro seeing my Oppo posts? Probably not.

Matt Hardigree:

I am a bird on the internet.

I’m guessing this isn’t going to be a permanent part of my legacy, but I think you could do worse.

No one person deserves credit for OppositeLock as the point of Oppo is that it’s a community thing. That’s the “kin” in Kinja.

We shouldn’t forget Nick Denton, though. Nick firmly believed that whatever gift he might have for hiring good writers and hiring good editors who hire good writers, you could never replace the knowledge of a huge mass of commenters. His theory was that everyone comes across a good story occasionally and a great story rarely so if you collect enough people with a desire to share you’ll have a treasure trove of content.

It didn’t always work. Each of the original core Gawker Media blogs had their own offshoots that operated with varying degrees of success, but I don’t think any of them touched Oppo for its ability to produce writers we hired or stories we either shared or rewrote. That was Nick’s vision. So why did it work here?

It probably helped that I did (and still do) believe in it in a way that other editors maybe didn’t. Granted, Nick had a vision for a lot of things and they didn’t always pan out. I thought it was worth the effort, though that’s clearly not why Oppo became such a thing.

Is it because of the people? I remember putting together a list of the first commenters to try this, the people we trusted, and I was lucky that we had such a large list to pull from. Undoubtedly, we picked right, although the community has grown and changed and Oppo has remained, which isn’t always true of online platforms. There’s no denying the great people who effectively auditioned in Oppo that we ended up later hiring. I remember, in particular, Ballaban being annoyingly good and forcing my hand. Jalopnik has always been a place for people who couldn’t get hired anywhere else at first, proving what they could do.

Is it magic? Maybe. We call something “magic” either when it’s a gimmick, which Oppo isn’t, or when it’s the confluence of so many bits of good luck and serendipity that we can’t compute the result in our feeble mortal minds.

This isn’t to say that Oppo or the commenters were perfect. There were times when we were all ready to chuck you all into the ocean for the troubles you caused. As a breeding ground for new talent and for stories worthwhile to the individual but maybe not to the masses Oppo was great, but did it make sense for GMG to profit off of everyone’s work this way just by providing a platform (I guess Zuckerberg would say “yes!”)?

Either way, Oppo was unavoidable. A fun game we used to play was to compare Oppo’s traffic to the traffic of so cold “established” media sites and laugh when Oppo blew them away. Even now, Oppo is bigger than many.

Oppo will not be the last part of the GMG that I loved that the people who are currently running the company are going to piss away because of lack of imagination or, really, any understanding of how to make money on the web beyond borrowing it from a VC. I’ve been hardened by too many wounds associated with the various eras of the company to shed a tear, but it is a real fucking bummer.

Just keep fighting. Keep doing what you’re doing. Find an outlet for it. Oppo exists because of Kinja, but it can exist without it.

I’ll keep reading.

Hardibird out!

Others who were too late to respond will have their statements posted in the comments, if possible?

DISCUSSION (76)

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/15/2020 at 23:53

I’m gonna tell you all to fuck off it’s gonna be done tomorrow.

For Sweden > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/15/2020 at 23:55

I can't believe I approved you for this

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > For Sweden
11/15/2020 at 23:56

Mistakes were made

Wheelerguy > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/15/2020 at 23:57

I’ll keep squatting like a filthy third-worlder until you kill me. And even then, you can’t, because WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE!!!

ClassicDatsunDebate > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/15/2020 at 23:57

Eat shit Arch Duke.

Wheelerguy > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/15/2020 at 23:58

Oh, and I get dibs on the last post. Let me be the one who blows this to hell.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/15/2020 at 23:58

You take that damn potato chip, and eat that shit. And thanks for everything.] you’ve done.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > ClassicDatsunDebate
11/15/2020 at 23:59

You too!

smobgirl > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/15/2020 at 23:59

I’m gonna go cry now.

Stef Schrader > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/15/2020 at 23:59

Kinja'd!!!

I asked the Puffalumps, but they didn’t say much.

Spaceball-Two > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:00

Don’t lose touch

Berang > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:00

Fuck Jimmy Spanfeller.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Spaceball-Two
11/16/2020 at 00:01

Dusty Ventures > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:02

Fuck all y’alls

(I lurve you guys)

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:03

Thanks to all the Mods and all their hard work, everything you did helped make Oppo the place it is. E xcept you Arch Duke, you can eat shit. kthxbye <3.

Oh and btw, I’m rocking my Antichrist shirt I got all those years ago. Keep Oppo, Oppo.

Dusty Ventures > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:03

Remember the time you started a theme day?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Berang
11/16/2020 at 00:03

With a big rusty poll or a splintery post

Nom De Plume > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:04

I know this is supposed to be a roast... I just can’t.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:05

I nearly cried but I certainly did laugh.

AND ERNIE SHOWED UP!

Dude, Patrick George, Stef (no puffalump for some reason), and even Ernie @ Kinja showed up to send us off.

And I loved Stef’s invoice, especially the line about breaking stuff. I too scheduled posts for the 16th so can I get $69 per post too?

Thank you, mods, for all the fantastic work you’ve done over the years. Bans and unembiggening included. Can’t ban me now, can you? Here’s a theme day idea: “ snails, it’s just snails ”

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dusty Ventures
11/16/2020 at 00:05

This happened multiple times. The snake eats its own tail.

Spaceball-Two > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:05

I hate this stupid fucking drum beat beat but I’m not gonna tell anyone.

Cheers mate. It’s been a pleasure. For real.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > smobgirl
11/16/2020 at 00:06

Kinja'd!!!

Spanfeller is a twat > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:12

I appreciate the mod team's dedication to this garbage dump of the internet. In particular Party-vi, who by giving me authorship allowed me to be the cringiest asshat of oppo (I’m not even being ironic) and make all of your lives worse by injecting a bunch of angst into every conversation.

Xoxoxo

Wheelerguy > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 00:19

> splinter

Let’s remember some blogs.

Dusty Ventures > Nom De Plume
11/16/2020 at 00:22

I wanted to do that the moment I saw a Solo Wheel

Stef Schrader > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/16/2020 at 00:25

Kinja'd!!!

The Puffalumps have been watching today with baffled eye- embroidery.

Dusty Ventures > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/16/2020 at 00:25

Looks like we can still ban you

Kinja'd!!!

Stef Schrader > Wheelerguy
11/16/2020 at 00:26

Oppo was a good Kinja.

Stef Schrader > Wheelerguy
11/16/2020 at 00:27

There are no dibs. There’s only greased-up hog wrasslin’.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Stef Schrader
11/16/2020 at 00:28

Glad to see they are leaving their mark on this place in its final minutes.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Dusty Ventures
11/16/2020 at 00:29

But I never said I was the leader of this racket! I just want to know Who!

I accidentally got put as a freelancer on Photography Kinja, that was weird.

DrJohannVegas > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 01:00

Fuck all y’all, it’s been a pleasure and an honor.

Stef Schrader > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/16/2020 at 01:33

That’s how you get invoices.

Jim Spanfeller > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 01:42

Remember that time I started a DeSoto theme day because I didn’t know any better and you had to threaten the banhammer to make me stop? G ood times.

Screw you.

I love you.

Stef Schrader > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 02:35

Also, to clarify...........Rally Chicken is not and never will be a duck.

Just Jeepin' > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 07:27

Could you fix poor Patrick’s last name before the site goes read-only? I assumed this was satire because the first name was, well, satirical.

vondon302 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 07:33

This is good Oppo.

Thanks to you all, I didn’t get a chance to write a goodbye Oppo post, but it really has become my internet home.

Cheers all hope to cya all around.

Oh and Dusty thanks for the Oppohunt. In a shitty cloudy year you gave some sunshine and made some good memories to a bunch of strangers on the internet.

Lets do it again.

My bird IS the word > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 07:36

Something touchy feely about how cars bring people together.

Its been real. But now the mods are getting banned! Sweet justice is served!

Kinja'd!!!

Tekamul > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 07:36

Well fuck. That hurt. I’ll think of this place every morning. Right before a BM.

Kinja'd!!!

Kar Wai Wong > Just Jeepin'
11/16/2020 at 07:39

Same, I thought it was a Mergio situation.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 07:41

And with this dies the last light of the Commentariat.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 07:43

Thanks for nothing, assholes!

(Cries inside)

PatBateman > Stef Schrader
11/16/2020 at 07:45

Kinja'd!!!

Nice.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Just Jeepin'
11/16/2020 at 07:45

Do, wHat now?

Just Jeepin' > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 07:50

...I assume you fixed it, but if someone else snuck that in, it was originally “Gerorge”.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Just Jeepin'
11/16/2020 at 07:53

Kinja'd!!!

bhtooefr > Stef Schrader
11/16/2020 at 08:06

The Puffalumps have been busy opening new tabs, I see.

UserNotFound > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 08:14

You fuckers and your theme days. God how I loathe the theme days. Every single time one pops up I have to nip that shit in the bud. These theme days are why the Herb is taking us down. I warned you fucks, but noooooooo, you didn’t listen.

And yet, today, the last day, has become, in itself, a theme day - and you’ve participated.

*boosh*

shop-teacher > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 08:18

Gadamn it Skeeter.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > UserNotFound
11/16/2020 at 08:21

Kinja'd!!!

AdverseMartyr > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 08:37

I mean you can go ancient Assyrian on him, and just lop the branches off a decent sized tree then let his own weight do the rest.

Party-vi > Spanfeller is a twat
11/16/2020 at 08:41

Kinja'd!!!

Cash Rewards > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 08:43

I like how hardigree says he's a bird on the internet, as if he's not a bird in real life

McMike > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 08:46

I never knew what Jalonebick was, but I visited it every once in a while when I came across a URL in a discussion on a message board.

I would read, then exit, not caring to even learn how to pronounce “Jackoblink” until that one day something made me create an account.

[ FOUND MY FIRST COMMENT ] and of course, it’s about 80s Diamond-Stars

After registering and now being able to comment, I was off and running. I would see these references to “oppositelock” and knew it was something I had to investigate. Was it a separate site? A table where all the cool kids sat?

It was neither, just a side forum for people to post stupid shit.

My middle name is stupid photoshops, so of course I was all in..

I think you had to add a #oppositelock tag to everything back then so it would show up. I also remember only being able to post one image at a time, so if you had more to your story, you had to add a “more after the jump” and you would would add one more photo at a time and a caption.

Fun times.

Of course, I hated every new version of the platform. Not because it was new, but because Denton would just. not. stop. tweaking. Sometimes you could upload photos, sometimes you couldn’t. Sometimes the comments went sideways, sometimes they didn’t. Sometimes a URL would take you to the reply you received, sometimes it would be dead.

I didn’t envy Ernie’s job one bit.

One of my favorite memories of Kinja was when the URL to the comment was a hyphenated-word-for-word-of-th the comment. So when you saw the notification, you could hover over the hyperlink and see what it was about. I used to type the most horrible things in a comment just to edit it immediately afterwards. I can’t imagine how many users were confused by a nice, constructive comment that had the URL:

https://jalopnik.com/youre-the-dumbest-motherfucker-i-ha/5013487

Most of the stupid photoshops I posted to the internet were also always posted here. The Steven Seagal images, TOPGear USA (which eventually made it’s way into an episode), Hardibird, PlacesAlonsoWouldRatherBe, Lewis Hamilton’s Hairline, and replacing the 360 in every photo Doug posted with a Fiero (which somehow allowed me to design his book covers, create all the YouTube thumbnails for two of his YouTube channels, and create marketing images for Cars&Bids).

As I looked through a lot of the posts and tags I have created here over the last week, I forgot how much I used to create and share. So much content. So many images. Man, I wasted a LOT of time in here.

LOL, I just found an old post from the LAST TIME we thought Oppo was going away.

I’m sure I’ll be on the front page now and again.

Good bye, Oppo. I will miss this community almost as much* as I will miss all the hotlinked images that will die.

https://twitter.com/ItsMcMikeTime

*not true, I will miss all of you and the dead URLs equally.

benn454 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 08:47

See you fuckers later.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > McMike
11/16/2020 at 08:50

Kinja'd!!!

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > Stef Schrader
11/16/2020 at 08:55

Wrong take is wrong

Cash Rewards > PotbellyJoe and 42 others
11/16/2020 at 09:23

Yup. It was a better vision than was given credit

Jb boin > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 09:27

You know it’s a good roast when it’s involving duck s !

Kinja'd!!!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Stef Schrader
11/16/2020 at 09:35

The best.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Stef Schrader
11/16/2020 at 09:36

#AlternativeFacts

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 09:37

Thanks for putting this together. Long live OPPO.

Justin Hyde > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 09:38

I’m old enough to remember the time Oppo and Jezebel held a prom.

You’ll always be Because Racecar to me.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Justin Hyde
11/16/2020 at 09:41

Justin Hyde???

Kinja'd!!!

Sn210 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 09:49

Kinja'd!!!

Fuck you Louros

HammerheadFistpunch > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 09:58

Kinja'd!!!

Me on Monday, realizing I can still post after all that.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Sn210
11/16/2020 at 10:00

I remember that shitbag.

EL_ULY > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 10:17

What flavor jelly would you like on my butthole before you eat it OPPO?

Kinja'd!!!

Catch you on the flip side dude miesters!

Jerry Harding > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 10:31

*wipes tears*

Beautiful.

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 11:18

I leave for like, 5 years and this place goes down the shitter?!

Toodleloo, you magnificent bastards.

Get Fucked by a bag full of hammers, Jim. You insufferable twat waffle.

#SaveTheDragons #GetFuckedJim

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > Dusty Ventures
11/16/2020 at 11:20

We’ll always have Dirtfish & E@RTC. <3

Dr_Watson > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 11:24

lol, i love the ball gag Oppo logo.

Kinja'd!!!

This place was great while it lasted. Cheers everyone.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dr_Watson
11/16/2020 at 11:29

Ball gag Oppo logo?

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 11:39

Clearly the smiley face in the Oppo logo is gagged.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
11/16/2020 at 11:57

That’s a duck

Dr_Watson > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/16/2020 at 12:02

on embiggend inspection I see you are correct. it is a duck. when shrunk down though it looks like a gagged smilie. which is very appropriate.