The Media Blog: Everything about this piece on the Twitter Outrage Machine resonates with us

This is us nodding our heads in vigorous ‘A-Daniel-Has-Come-To-Judgement agreement:

“Celebrity Misspeaks and the Internet Piles On” is the kind of mob-and-pitchforks genre of writing that has only grown more powerful and more exhausting as the Twitter-and-hot takes culture continues its ceaseless march to domination.

“We’ve become gremlins. Writing about funny memes and episodes of Game of Thrones, we seem cute and harmless. But giving us an inane and misguided celebrity quote is akin to giving a gremlin water. Watch us start foaming at the mouths and multiplying, pillaging the blogosphere with our reckless thinkpieces and feral rage.

“It’s expected at this point. I barely have patience for it anymore. So little patience that I am indeed writing exactly one of those thinkpieces I was just complaining about. I’m King Gremlin, y’all, and you’ve all given me an entire jug of water. (I really hope everyone reading this has seen that movie…)

“Andrew Garfield theoretically meant well. But here we are on Day Two of our stern and stone-faced explanations of why he didn’t.

“I can’t. And I won’t.”

On behalf of the rest of the up people of the globe, we say thank you sir.

Read full piece here.

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