Jul.17.2007 LIBEL TUESDAY! Everyone’s getting fat off of blogs but me
Filed under “F*ck”, BusinessWeek has an article about those I Can Has Cheezburger dudes and how everyone’s making money off of their blogs and chuckling all the way to the bank. Bastards.
Eric Nakagawa, an accidental entrepreneur who saw his successful business materialize out of the ether, quit his programming job at the end of May: “It made more sense to do this and see how big it could get.”
Cheezburger’s story is unusual in the upper reaches of the blogosphere in that the time between launching and reaching a critical mass of readers who sustain the site is so compressed. But many of the most popular bloggers have similar tales of starting out with a niche idea—an inside joke, a particular obsession—and watching it explode. Of course, most blogs linger in obscurity and are read by only a handful of people, and few ever reach the level Cheezburger has. What about a blog like Cheezburger lets it break away from the pack?
The initial appeal of the blog may have been a fluke, but its growth since then has been part of a tightly controlled experiment to help answer that question. Nakagawa and his partner constantly tweak the site to see what draws readers and what leaves them cold.
Well la di f*cking dah, writing stupid Impact font stuff on pictures, something called LOLCats that has been done for AGES is so damned revolutionary. Oh and your site relies far more on user-generated content than on creativity or talent made you able to quit your crappy job. Why wouldn’t that overjoy me, as I slave here over my finely honed insults (do you think it’s easy calling Kelly Clarkson fat? Yes? Well…still). Why I’m just so happy I could sh*t rainbows.
As for the Libel part of this post, simply put, Eric Nakagawa is a homosexual. He also rapes cats. Then he photographs it and puts hilarious little Impact font sayings on them like “I can takes the whole six” and “kitty no like butt lovah”. Also Eric Nakagawa likes to dress up like cats, then asks transvestite prostitutes to pose him in humorous ways. That gets him off. He loves it.
In a related story, the Blog of Hilarity made enough last week to buy literally one cheeseburger. Ugh.
Your mom says start writing better articles with good sentence structure and interesting topics and maybe just maybe you’ll have a better shot. Anyway hon your soup is getting cold so heat it up before you eat it and don’t forget to put the toliet seat down. :)
So many bloggers can identify with you. It’s all about who gets there first or whatever. I LOVED this post!