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Why does every article on Racked read like a Patrick Bateman monologue, stripped of any sense of irony? It's as if aliens were writing about human society from
by alphonsegaston 10y ago
Why does every article on Racked read like a Patrick Bateman monologue, stripped of any sense of irony? It's as if aliens were writing about human society from the perspective of a banner ad.
- nether 10y agoI imagine every article about style/fashion/clothes sounds that way to HN readers. Consider pg's article on "submarines,” which to me was just a blithe lack of understanding of cyclical fashion, and his noble defense of wearing sneakers in professional settings. A fashion editor trying to write about trends in software frameworks would probably fare no better.
- alphonsegaston 10y agoI actually find a lot of style and fashion stuff interesting. But there's something about the unsanitized corporate speech of Racked that is just unnerving. I know we live in an era where subtext is text, but this is more like parody as sincerity.
- SilasX 10y agoThe submarine article wasn't denying the existence of fashion cycles. I don't know how you got that message. It was about articles that exist to promote what someone wants to be the style, and which the journalist wrote about because a PR agent did the work for them. (Rather than because the journalist independently spotted a real trend.) There's a big difference between "oh wow react is on the rise, let me write about that" vs "a google employee fed me a prewritten article about how all the cool kids use angular, I'll just pass that on."
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