Do comedy websites strive to be the saddest, lowest-effort pieces of garbage on the internet? Or is that just incidental?
I feel like all their content nowadays is either "Hey, here's some gifs I found on tumblr!" or "Hey, here's a screenshot of a funny tumblr post!" When your entire website fills the same function as having a tumblr, how the fuck do you convince people to give you money?
I mean, I guess it's no better than the olden days of stealing funny pictures and putting your watermark on them, but at least all the funny pictures weren't all drawn from the exact same website.
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It's not just comedy sites. I swear half of the "online reporters" hired by major new agencies now only know how to report in the form of the Top 10 List. CNN even had an article on the guy that fucking started the trend, to whom they owe 60% of their fucking content now! When I was in J-school, I was told that was shit writing, shit reporting and basically a college student's effort in a professional business. And now, 4 years later, it's basically the goddamn norm in web media.
It fucking enrages me these people get paid to do this work, the equivalent of what a 14 year old does between masturbating and calling people fags in an online game. Trolling Twitter for the last stupid shit someone said is not journalism. Creating lists that are guaranteed to be based off something like a Cracked or SA article is not journalism. Paying some schmuck with a beard to write not-funny articles about some stupid shit he thought about today is not journalism.
Posting whatever fucking viral cat video is making rounds on youtube is not journalism.I have dreams sometimes of a Zombie Walter Cronkite rising from his grave to drag all employees of CNN, Fox, MSNBC ect....under the age of 40 screaming back into the deep earth with him.
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