The Angry Drunk

Gods know I hate TechCrunch. Fuck, they’re prob­a­bly respon­si­ble for at least a third of the mate­r­ial for the Angry Mac Bastards pod­cast. But yes­ter­day, TechCrunch and Erik Schonfeld sank to an abysmal new low.

In the arti­cle, which is so dis­jointed and point­less that it makes the aver­age third – grader’s book report look like a master’s the­sis, Shonfeld cas­ti­gates DeviantART (an online artis­tic com­mu­nity com­posed of user – sub­mit­ted works) for the fact that the one hun­dred mil­lionth user sub­mis­sion, or “devi­a­tion” as they are styled, hap­pens to be a gay sex story. I hon­estly can’t get what Shonfeld is going on about here. Is he offended by the sub­ject mat­ter, or just jeal­ous that the peo­ple at DeviantArt actu­ally pro­duce some­thing other than pro­pa­ganda for Google and end­less com­edy mate­r­ial for those of us bag­ging on the CrunchPad? Or, as is most likely given that this is TecCrunch, is he just trolling for links to keep his mas­ter Arrington from bust­ing out the cat-o-nine-tails and pun­ish­ment dildo?

Whatever the moti­va­tion, the arti­cle is rep­re­hen­si­ble. Seriously, how dare a jumped up tabloid like TechCrunch crit­i­cize DeviantART. It’s true that a large chunk of the mate­r­ial on DeviantART

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