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What is the point of this article? It rings incredibly false and superficial to me. How is this about tech? The headspace this person is in seems like pure mise
by fellowniusmonk 11mo ago
What is the point of this article? It rings incredibly false and superficial to me. How is this about tech? The headspace this person is in seems like pure misery.
- Papazsazsa 11mo agoIt's social commentary about class, fame, and fate – all things very relevant to hackers and news.
- fellowniusmonk 11mo agoIt's just weird celebrity worship dressed up by arguing that celebrity is somehow this innate characteristic his specific friend Adam can spot. This is tabloid ontology. I've worked in the celebrity space for a long time, there is no there there, the dehumanizing of celebrities (and oneself) via worship, para-socializing or unearned castigation is all brain rot. This attempt to hide ungrounded "People Magazine" supermarket aisle foolishness behind pseudo gonzo journalism is such a lipstick on a pig move.
- ibash 11mo agoIt’s not celebrity worship, it’s trying to show the absurdity of celebrity worship.
- fellowniusmonk 11mo agoIt's in the frame and it's mid. There is enough ambiguity of interpretation (as is the nature of gonzo writing) and one instance of saying willow smith talks like a homeless person to trick people into missing the frame the article adopts, the mean spirited takedown and the worship are the same. This is literally textbook tabloid framing, the tabloid elevates, the tabloid destroys, the tabloid tells you have nothing better to do while you wait in a long line. This article is celebrity worship tabloid brain rot.
- Papazsazsa 11mo agoI too work in the attention economy and found the essay relevant and an enjoyable reminder of some of the genx era/Pitchfork era commentary.
- lurk2 11mo agoAre you being sarcastic?
- Papazsazsa 11mo agoNo