Content producers work for free? Sometimes they don’t work at all.

katiebakes:

ninety9:

Noon today: 18 items on the home page of Jezebel. 5 are ‘Snap Judgement’, 4 are gossip round-ups/content siphons, 1 is a GM network reprint. So that ‘without airbrushing’ slug really just means that Nick is too cheap to pay for a production artist?

Jezebel is increasingly formulaic. Even the EDGY CONTROVERSIAL stories are starting to feel like Mad Libs.

Moe Tkacik’s posts were the last thing keeping me at Jezebel, and even those were beginning to become slightly formulaic.  They seemed formulaic in context, at least.  I think that given the right environment (i.e. Gawker), they wouldn’t seem as repetitive.

Jezebel’s shift started around the time their hired Dodai Stewart.  Her writing has always been consistent, but it’s also been boring and predictable.  The post covers the facts, has some research, and tries to include some sort of humor, most of which should have been killed (LOLVogue, for example, should never have made it out of an iChat window).  The addition of Jennifer Grouse saw Jezebel continue the trend towards the more dry and informative (I do, however, really like Jennifer Grouse and her writing; she provides the journalistic credibility that they need.)

I’ve been ambivalent about Tracie Egan since One D at a Time first appeared.  Her writing is consistently amusing, but it sometimes falls flat and relies too heavily on her Slut Machine persona with too many reused jokes.  They were funny the first time, less so the tenth or twentieth (using “d” rather than “dick”, for example).  Her stuff was fresh and had an edge, but it’s since become complacent.

Jezebel started off irreverent and bitchy, but the editorial has since become routine and typical with an almost desperate attempt to maintain an edge.

Because it’s the popular thing to do, lets blame the commenters!  After all, they’re just a bunch of cunty bitches from the midwest.