I wish I caught this before disappearing into the vapid, internet-less hole on Friday evening known as Washington DC. Blakeley nails it, Fek nails it even harder, and neither of them offers a reach around. This is the internet. If you can’t handle someone else using your “work” (though I’d hardly qualify reblogging something as work) then get off it. Like all good blogs, Gawker monitors a slew of websites all day long to offer content to their general readers who are too busy/lazy to look elsewhere. It is not Gawker’s responsibility to jerk off the 15 people who “knew about it first.” When I interned at Columbia Records, one of my fellow interns got a band signed. He literally was the first to play them for the label, the execs loved it and they got a hefty deal. Now, the band is doing great (they’ve blown into the Top 40 and their video isn’t even out yet), but do you think anyone gives a fuck who found them first? Of course not. Columbia Records gets full credit for putting it out, not the lowly team of interns who sang their praises a full year before they got any radio play. That’s not to say the intern who found them won’t be able to leverage that in the future…he now works at a top music management company (as an assistant, but whatever). Get enough shit up on Gawker and you’ll inevitably be noticed by someone in the company. Then you can get that wonderful hyperlink and pageview bonus your writing supremely deserves. But until then, please quit pissing, and keep blogging cool shit for us to share. Thanks.
fek:
This would be example #4523485024 of stuff we had days before Gawker tried to fill their pages when they don’t have enough smack about Julia to dig up. This is one of the first times that they cite it—although only giving credit to the flickr not to the fact that it was on Tumblr. Why won’t Gawker acknowledge that they take content from Tumblr users? Don’t we all deserve credit for things we share/discover?because then nick would have to actually pay us.
You people are retarded, first off this whole Tumblr thing is a New York CV, NNN, Gawker circle jerk, most of you friend me because you want to be my friend in real life, I’m flattered and I follow you back, read your stuff and send stuff to tips.
And now you’re claiming we’re stealing you Tumblr content? Like really? Did you do the fountain artwork? No? Oh you just saw it was some funny creative thing something did and you clicked a single ‘reblog’ button and now you want credit on Gawker? Oh man, why didn’t I get credit for sending it to tips? Here’s what you whiney people can do, I put it in a list and if I see it on Gawker they better pay me:
1. Kiss my ass
2. Defriend me you whiney bitches
3. If you don’t like people “taking” your work get the fuck off the internet
WORD. Wo-to the motherfucking-rd. Do you people not get it?
Blakely, J-Del, etc. They’re on here because - yes, you get a wee bit - besides being a fun platform, it’s a quick way to get ahold of the memes that become newsworthy. However. How-the fuck-ever. You know what’s a better communication medium than Tumblr? Gawker Media.* Because it reaches more people; because the writing is better; because they have the skill that it takes to aggregate what other people want to read.
So just because you might have read it first in your feed …doesn’t mean, um, shit. Because there were 54 other items that you’ve talked about, discussed, read, and re-read today…that haven’t appeared in your feed.
Finally, think you’re hot shit? You can now submit a story to them. Do your homework, and get over that petty sense of entitlement. You fucking faux-bloggers.
*Or read YM. Fuckers.
