You know I kind of figured that the personal essay industrial complex would die off, but it’s still finding interesting new ways to make me say “you probably shouldn’t have written that down”
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The demise of the personal blog has really done a number on us. In 2004 this would have been a live journal post, her friends would have commented, and that would be the end.
I feel like there was a way to write this essay/story where it’s not so bad and I don’t know exactly how much is her writing and how much is editors but that headline is……not great! I mean, it’s great in terms of being wild and eye-catching, but doesn’t inspire empathy for the author, I guess.
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Monetizing content was a bad idea.
I'm glad Humpty Hump isn't alive to see this.
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