Thursday, February 17, 2011

inspiration from search terms: Where are Kotaku Readers Going?

I haven't rapped too much about Kotaku, because really, what else is there to say?   I can't even really think of a clever "MAN COBRAB COMMANDOR MUST BE WORKING AT HAWKER MEDIA" joke because the reality is probably even more ridiculous and depressing.  Thousands of pages of pie graphs, consumer driven phases, and capitalist understanding from your Ayn Rand cyberpunk grandpa.  If there's been any upshot of this, it's that Kotaku's usually bountful crop of awful basement comments have been culled, presumably both from people leaving the site and the new article design doing everything to imply that it doesn't want to hear what you have to say short of implanting a soundbite of wailing Arab women every time the comment button is clicked.

I'm on the first page to the question of "where are Kotaku readers going?"  Honestly, who fucking cares?  Well, besides people whose job it is to latch your temporal lobes into a never ending parade of cool screenshots and gritty eyewitness maid cafe reports while assuring you that you're a class above those lame IGN nerds.  Of course, I'm sure those people already have Skynet monitoring traffic reports and aren't just helplessly asking google for assistance with their journey.  Or maybe they are.  Hi guys!  You should give Lisa more screentime and then imply that drinking mercury will give you the cutting edge at MvC3!

So, I have to assume that the question was from some guy who is scared that all his buddies on the "daily speakup" (I honestly don't even know what goes on there, I figured the terrible photo-shopped GAMER KULTURE picture on every one of those topics was some sort of reverse IQ test) and now doesn't know what to do.  Well, I mean besides going outside.  We can't have that, I mean what with Bulletstorm and Portal 2 coming out!  What's gonna be the next hilarious joke that you'll repeat approximately 20 times and then declare to be passe and pass judgment upon anyone who dares to use it?  THE WORLD IS PASSING YOU BY FUCKER NOW WHAT YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT FEAT. ALL AMERICAN REJECTS

The more I think about that search term, the more confusion grows.  I mean, half of the Internet is stupid nerds congregating to communities, and a good number of those cater to that hungry need for social acceptance above other nerds and pretending that they understand that life does not revolve around their stupid bullshit.  There is probably some concerted Facebook/general social media campaign to lure people away their betraying idols to join a site that REALLY cares and the worst thing is that so many of you are going to fall for it.  Why can't I help you?

(also, way to ruin my happiness at tim finally not having a big name column anymore by imploding at the exact same time, you fucks)

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