A real shame, though it was a shell of its former self by the end. Like everything under the Gawker umbrella, it was a Frankenstein of gossipy bullshit, legit g

A real shame, though it was a shell of its former self by the end. Like everything under the Gawker umbrella, it was a Frankenstein of gossipy bullshit, legit good journalism, edgelord humor, and a devoted comment section of fanatical weirdos. If the comments section here is any indication, they succeeded at taking the "I don't care who I offend" energy of the internet and redirected it against a set of targets who are not used to being the butt of the joke. Sometimes they crossed a line, but not more than any given Twitter user, and with a lot more wit. I could maybe make the argument that what went wrong is that social media gave every fan of that kind of humor a platform to spew it on. You can blame Jezebel, but I blame social media algorithms, because the comments sections themselves tended to be far better moderated than, say, Twitter. It's worth reading one of the founders reflect on the site and what it meant to people (women specifically). https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/jezebel-and-the-question-of-womens-anger https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/jezebel-...