Makes a lot of sense lol. I appreciate your usage of ED as a source, I find that reading between the opinions yields some shockingly accurate web history. I remember being shocked at their articles for gay and trans people… and then you read the one on straight people and realize they believe in equal treatment.
I love going back to browse ED occasionally. Both because it’s such a blast from the past with so many memes and references I’ve forgotten about, and also just how absolutely batshit insane it is
ED actually fully lives up to the ‘every one is incompetent, stupid and slur, now lemme break down why’, kind of edginess from 2000’s net … ‘discourse’.
And yeah, as you say, it’s written basically with the ‘editorial directive’ to be as merciless and cruel as possible… but it does actually contain a good bit of … well, either actually sourced, or as close to well sourced as is possible for stupid shitshow drama in some tiny community that wiped out all that stuff a decade+ ago, but turns out to be relevant a decade later because the fates ordained this one particular random weirdo to be massively influential.
Makes a lot of sense lol. I appreciate your usage of ED as a source, I find that reading between the opinions yields some shockingly accurate web history. I remember being shocked at their articles for gay and trans people… and then you read the one on straight people and realize they believe in equal treatment.
I love going back to browse ED occasionally. Both because it’s such a blast from the past with so many memes and references I’ve forgotten about, and also just how absolutely batshit insane it is
ED actually fully lives up to the ‘every one is incompetent, stupid and
slur, now lemme break down why’, kind of edginess from 2000’s net … ‘discourse’.And yeah, as you say, it’s written basically with the ‘editorial directive’ to be as merciless and cruel as possible… but it does actually contain a good bit of … well, either actually sourced, or as close to well sourced as is possible for stupid shitshow drama in some tiny community that wiped out all that stuff a decade+ ago, but turns out to be relevant a decade later because the fates ordained this one particular random weirdo to be massively influential.
They even have two separate articles for Trump, each from the complete opposite perspective.
That’s hilarious. They’re really keeping the spirit of the wild west-era internet alive.