What if today were Gawker’s last day on earth?

I’ve never visited Gawker regularly and yet somehow I still breathe in and out.

peterwknox:

claudia:

jakoblodwick:

Imagine if you woke up tomorrow and it was gone.
Would your life be different, at all?

Reblog your answer.

I’m making an conscious effort to stop reading Gawker. Gawker is like Flava of Love, The Real Housewives of Orange County New York or Rock of Love or one of those asinine shows you find yourself watching mostly because the people on it are so pathetic and miserable, it makes you feel better about yourself. That is what Gawker has become. What started as funny and witty and sometimes insightful has just become too self indulgent and ultimately pathetic. There is only so long that you can make money by causing misery in others and to be a part of that is something I refuse to continue doing. The fact that I click through to read their ridiculous stuff makes me sick, I refuse to continue to give them page views. (via the awesome mascarah)

You took the words right out of my mouth. Well said. Ever since blowing up the picture of JA’s nipple Gawker is just dead to me. Whether she flashed it intentionally or unintentionally is just irrelevant. I just don’t give a shit and…they do, so I’m done. - claudia

Gawker was only as good as the writers it employed. Those good writers are gone (and on tumblr!) so now I just cruise my dashboard and leave well enough alone.

6 March 2008 ·

37 notes

  1. shnayerson reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    —ESPECIALLY TRUE....York-infamous [DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A DISEASE TO ANYONE ELSE?],
  2. blogebrity reblogged this from soupsoup
  3. politicalpartygirl reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    Nooooo! I mean, the Gawker blog, I could live without, but I need Jezebel and Wonkette. (Although not so much Wonkette...
  4. hoitycoity reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    Gawker I can do without but then I don’t live in NY...I don’t have undue internet...
  5. navelgazing101 reblogged this from jakelodwick
  6. adamkatz reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    Jakob’s kinda freaking me out with this question. Sounds like he has something planned
  7. thelinkfamily reblogged this from jakelodwick
  8. jakec reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    No. I would probably miss Kotaku (the only Gawker blog I derive any value from), but short of doing a little celebratory...
  9. soupsoup reblogged this from frangry and added:
    I wish there was a way to show all these brilliant replies in one post.
  10. mee-z reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    No change. Killed all my Gwaker Feeds. Wasted to much time. (Sorry Brian)
  11. hearmeroar reblogged this from jakelodwick
  12. nickguidodenton reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    a million years ago, In all my past lives I played an asshole, Now I found you, it’s almost too late, And this earth...
  13. yumwatch reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I would just keep reading Jezebel instead.
  14. frangry reblogged this from ryanbrown and added:
    Imagine if you woke up tomorrow...it was gone. Would your life be different, at all?...
  15. heykurt reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    (weird, for some reason my answer didn’t show...initially)I would have probably not...
  16. suitep reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I rarely go there because I tend to forget...even exists. Unless someone reminds me by...
  17. jasonstallings reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    mean Gawker as in the company, that would mean the Lifehacker.com would be gone. Lifehacker has written many posts about...
  18. jdel reblogged this from fek
  19. hlewisallways reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    gawkergawker.com, anybody want to contribute?
  20. krankmills reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    As long as Jezebel is still there, no skin off my teeth.
  21. pop17 reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    different because I would actually get real news from other sources.
  22. theoriginaljoefisher reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    I’ve never visited Gawker regularly and yet somehow I still breathe in and out. peterwknox:
  23. lovepuppy reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    I pretneded to give up Gawker 3 weeks ago, but that is obviously not going so well. Good idea in theory. Give up Gawker!...
  24. noraleah reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    Tumblr has replaced Gawker (by a mile). I think of the people I follow as my brilliant little minions, trolling the...
  25. ohheyimheather reblogged this from jakelodwick
  26. mascarah reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    I’m making an conscious effort to stop reading Gawker. Gawker is like Flava of Love, The Real Housewives of Orange...
  27. squashedcomments reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    No. I wouldn’t notice unless...disappeared in such a spectacular fashion that it made...
  28. jackludwick reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    Clever. Deep. Acute. Insightful. No?
  29. jakelodwick posted this

Hi.

I'm a writer living in Los Angeles. But who isn't?

I'm in awe of people who make art and photography. Since I know I'll never excel past stick figures I like to post other people's art and sometimes write about it.

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