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Gawker Does A Primer on Internet Grossouts. 'Cause That Makes Sense.

Posted by Bryan Christian

Huh. Apparently part of the new world order over at Camp Denton's flagship site, Gawker, is to assume that its readers have just discovered this magical new thing called "El Interweb" and therefore need a rundown of the legendary grossout perv memes like Two Girls One Cup, tubgirl, and goatse. Which maybe they do, but... no, actually, we're pretty sure they don't.

Don't get us wrong: we love that someone put together a one-stop shop for historic internet nastiness, if only for posterity, but isn't Gawker's doing that the same thing as, like, Page Six taking a moment to describe what a nightclub is? As in: it says more about what they've forgotten about their readers than what their readers ever needed to learn.

But hey, maybe we missed something and Marco Fiorito just moved to NYC, therefore putting it all squarely under the Gawker portfolio... Oh, wait a sec. We think Gawker have removed anything referring specifically to NYC from their header, which we're pretty sure used to refer to "New York media" or something and now reads simply: "Media gossip and pop culture round the clock." Oh good, 'cause there's no where else to get that.

Whatever. We're just happy we were able to use that 2G1C illo again. We worked on that for, like, 6 hours.


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matt said:

Hi Bryan.  Long time reader, first time commenter, love the topic, love the show.  

Not to sound cranky, but on behalf of your national audience (i.e. not NYC), I don't care about Gawker.  There is no chance I will ever meet anyone mentioned in it, employed at it or somehow entangled with it at a cocktail party where I can pretend that I think that they matter.  I guess that does sound cranky.

January 7, 2008 11:57 AM

Bryan Christian said:

Maybe, but does it sound any crankier THAN I DID? ;)

I totally hear ya. We wouldn't have mentioned 'em at all if we hadn't already been writing about 2G1C previously, scouts honor -- but you got my double pinkie swear not to mention them again unless they get ahold of a particularly good sextape or something like that. Cool?

January 7, 2008 2:23 PM

Matt said:

Cool, as long as it's not Joey Buttafuo...damn.

January 8, 2008 7:40 PM

About Bryan Christian

Bryan Christian has worked as a writer for Epicurious, GenArt and ID magazine; a web producer for WWD and Condé Nast; and a cameraman for his friends. He's married and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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