Urban v's the Commentariat

[Rural]

What is a personal brand though, seriously?

I guess it's using ur perceived individualism as a usp so u can make money by *being urself*

 

[SpineyNorman]

What is a personal brand though, seriously?

in laurie's case it's the exploitation of serious issues - about which you haven't had the decency conduct anything even on nodding terms with genuine research - in the pursuit of shameless self promotion

 

[The39thStep]

Hasn't said a word about the Kurds though

 

[DotCommunist]

no NATO bombs to cheer yet I suppose

 

[Greebo]

What is a personal brand though, seriously?

A bit of a poisoned chalice - ask anyone who's got their real name splattered across the internet and also uses it for work.

Edited to add: eg Yvonne Aburrow

 

[Rural]

If this is true, it's weird, if it's not, well why make something like that up.

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Monetarise ur riot

 

[Bakunin]

I guess it's using ur perceived individualism as a usp so u can make money by *being urself*

The rebel sell. Being 'edgy' enough to turn a buck without being so 'edgy' that you deter potential custom.

Which is about as genuine as an MP's expenses claim, frankly.

 

[krink]

has crabby not done a painting to end the siege on Kobane yet? her one about Ferguson worked so well...

 

[rekil]

What is a personal brand though, seriously?

Short answer is that it's the image an entrepreneur tries to project in order to distinguish themselves from the competition and goad consumers into forming an emotional attachment with their shit.

Here's a thing: Kathy Sierra wrote to Crabapple about Mr.Weev last May.

http://olaasm.wordpress.com/2014/10...te-weevgate-abusers-their-knowing-apologists/

In summary, he destroyed my life, for lulz, and you, personally, are propagating his mythology.

 

[Rural]

@unquietpirate @soletvebe @flyingteacosy @joshsamuels I find this exchange really upsetting. I feel judged for expressing pride.

LP on twitter (sorry idk how to link so the tweet appears here, I mean come on u all must know I can barely manage to reply coherently!) Just wanted to point out how the usual silencing technique *I'm upset, stop upsetting me* is still being used every time she's called out. This time for upsetting bisexuals. Also lol about feeling judged on twitter. What does she think ppl do to tweets they read?

 

[butchersapron]

I can't do it either - anything about kurdish transgingers?

 

[Rural]

http://laurie-penny.com/on-weev-fascism-and-the-free-internet/

This was actually what I was looking for on her twitter when I became distracted by her being upset when called out. Again.

 

[Rural]

I can't do it either - anything about kurdish transgingers?

If there is shes prob upset about it

 

[weepiper]

@unquietpirate @soletvebe @flyingteacosy @joshsamuels I find this exchange really upsetting. I feel judged for expressing pride.

LP on twitter (sorry idk how to link so the tweet appears here, I mean come on u all must know I can barely manage to reply coherently!) Just wanted to point out how the usual silencing technique *I'm upset, stop upsetting me* is still being used every time she's called out. This time for upsetting bisexuals. Also lol about feeling judged on twitter. What does she think ppl do to tweets they read?

You click on a particular tweet then copy the url at the top address bar then paste it in the reply box here and it embeds it for you, like this



edit, I mean click on 'details' at the bottom first...

 

[Rural]

You click on a particular tweet then copy the url at the top address bar then paste it in the reply box here and it embeds it for you, like this

Thanks i will def have a go!

 

[equationgirl]

http://laurie-penny.com/on-weev-fascism-and-the-free-internet/

This was actually what I was looking for on her twitter when I became distracted by her being upset when called out. Again.

Love how she's putting his facism down to a change in heart whilst in prison, and is in complete denial about him always being a misogynist anti-semite facist.

 

[Rural]

Love how she's putting his facism down to a change in heart whilst in prison, and is in complete denial about him always being a misogynist anti-semite facist.

Basically "i am going to cheer on someone i find adorbs & who I completely distance myself from & find repugnant".

Edit - "he's a lovely guy apart from everything he says & everything he does"

 

[PoorButNotAChav]

I've been looking at this thread since before I joined Urban75 and I don't know much about many of the members of the Commentariat mentioned recently or many of the places where they seem to do whatever it is they do such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. I'd heard of Laurie Penny because she has written for The Guardian, The Independent and the New Statesman and I had thought she was one of the better writers of the new generation (along with Owen Jones) because whilst she wrote about issues such as feminism her views seemed to come from a wider socialist outlook.

However, this argument about Weev (who I'd never heard of) and other arguments involving other members of the Commentariat (such as Gamergate) seem to me to be like petty personal arguments between groups of children in a playground than debates about the major issues of our time like the wars in Syria and Iraq, Britain's relationship with the EU or the state of the NHS.

Is that a fair assessment of some of the Commentariat?

 

[Idris2002]

You don't understand: Oxford University the racist institution of privilege is nothing to do with the Oxford University made up of all those smartest boys and girls from very smart schools. Entirely different things.

Oxford's greatest crime was to inflict Radiohead on the rest of the world, surely?

 

[DotCommunist]

fuck off, OK Computer is a stone classic

also wtf username

 

[krink]

Were Ride based in Oxford? I liked them.

 

[andysays]

...I'd heard of Laurie Penny because she has written for The Guardian, The Independent and the New Statesman and I had thought she was one of the better writers of the new generation (along with Owen Jones) because whilst she wrote about issues such as feminism her views seemed to come from a wider socialist outlook...

"seemed" might be the appropriate word there

 

[Idris2002]

Were Ride based in Oxford? I liked them.

I'm partial to the occasional ride myself.

 

[butchersapron]

Were Ride based in Oxford? I liked them.

Class traitor.

 

[krink]

[QUOTE "butchersapron, post: 13462704, member: 366"]Class traitor.[/QUOTE]
I didnt know. And when I did know it was too late, dammit.

 

[frogwoman]

I would have thought that weev would have been the sort of 4chan shite that any decent campaigner against misogynism etc online should be getting upset about.

 

[chilango]

Class traitor.

Chapterhouse.

 

[J Ed]

I would have thought that weev would have been the sort of 4chan shite that any decent campaigner against misogynism etc online should be getting upset about.

Honestly he seems worse than the average 4chan onanist, I get the impression that while most of them probably are a little bit racist and sexist they aren't actual blood and soil neo-Nazis which makes the commentariat's behaviour even worse.

 

[phildwyer]

I
However, this argument about Weev (who I'd never heard of) and other arguments involving other members of the Commentariat (such as Gamergate) seem to me to be like petty personal arguments between groups of children in a playground

This is what strikes me too. The infantilism of them all. I don´t know how they manage to remain so innocent.

 

[Greebo]

<snip> I don´t know how they manage to remain so innocent.

Naive, surely. Or unworldly if you really must.