Jack Monroe #193 Mama, pass the UNICEF statistics and the Hansards!

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schmetterling

Read (skimmed) the article and apologies for the lukewarm takes!

  1. Who the fack is Emilie Lavinia, a cardboard cutout character from a Harry Potter book?
  2. 'artificial arenas that mimic private conversations among friends' aka the Internet since the dawn of time (and I have made many 'real' close relationships with people that I've met online, forums and chat rooms exist for like-minded people)
  3. If your platform/lifestyle becomes a brand that you wish to monetise, you will attract criticism if you fail to deliver the content that your followers expect
  4. Using vague buzzwords like 'accountability' does not make a word salad anymore salient. Please, dear heart, feel free to elaborate
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Boyo

And every single iteration is ‘the perfect place/spot for sleeping/working/chilling/grifting’. Utter performative bollox.
 
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Lanie

Also regarding the researching stuff, anything I have seen researched on here as been for public access, so technically no rules are broken looking at them or else they wouldn't be so easily accessed and if everything was hunky dory why would you care.
 
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Veronicaaa

I see the author of that Grazia piece also writes for .... The Breakdown.
 
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Emmapism

I've made IRL friends from forums in the past. Two of my friends I met on a comedy forum in the mid 2000s.

We've seen pictures of people from this thread meeting up IRL.

It's clear the writer has zero experience of making internet friends or internet forums in general.
 
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Veronicaaa

These people make *contacts* on twitter, not friends.
 
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Lanie

Also have the not see the off topic thread, yeah memes one is brutal so is what was the last 3 things you bought? Yep this whole hellsite is just basically a bullying forum

I get that some threads may be quite brutal but I also think the mods are very good at making sure it doesn't go too far.

The same cannot be said for twitter. Some of the things I have heard being said on there is truly awful.
 
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Vanelope

Totally - or Hotally! agree. The younger generations seem a lot more self obsessed, as in they are more concerned about their image online and that does not lend itself to pisstaking. They are terribly earnest, and want to #bekind but can’t laugh at themselves. Gross generalisation im sure loads of young people have a robust sense of humour, but it’s not as dark, or weird or borderline. And they police thought a lot. I don’t really like Frankie Boyle’s early comedy, bit too close to the bone for me, but I’ve never tried to cancel him, I just don’t watch.
 
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traumatised sideboard

That film story has to be one of the most ridiculous things she's ever fabricated. Just how did a big budget film producer even hear of our Southend Slop Princess? Were they scouring the internet for someone who could help them use their single carrot, jar of salmon paste, ailing salad and six tins of beans and hit upon her blog? They said 'yes, audiences will go wild for this compelling tale of a young conventionally attractive white woman who comfortably grew up in a middle class household and had a cushy well-paying job in the fire service then fell on hard times which consisted of having no lightbulbs for six months and going to a food bank once'.
 
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bladiesla

Universal said:
Also loving the chat about 'influencers'. It seems a viable option for younger people to sell their life Truman style so they never have to actually work!
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Ironically, it will mean they are always working, creating content from things that 9-5 people do on their time off, when they released, have fun, etc. I don't envy influencers one bit, constantly having to think of their brand etc. It's much more fun to be judged and paid for something impersonal you create (with fun I mean, probably better for your mental health).
 
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