am usually a staunch defender of American journalism's love of long reads but I fundamentally don't understand why anyone would read over *6,000* words on knotty allegations surrounding someone the vast majority of even quite online people have never heard of www.vulture.com/article/bria... - ThreadSky

youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com • 78 days ago

am usually a staunch defender of American journalism's love of long reads but I fundamentally don't understand why anyone would read over *6,000* words on knotty allegations surrounding someone the vast majority of even quite online people have never heard of https://www.vulture.com/article/brian-jordan-alvarez-allegations-jon-ebeling-english-teacher.html

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adowniebrazil.bsky.social•78 days ago

*PAY* to read 6000 words about no-one we've ever heard of. It's behind a pay wall.

biettetimmons.bsky.social•78 days ago

I read this shortly after it was published and have spent the subsequent 8 hours wondering how an editor deemed a single incident of sexual assault newsworthy

youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com•78 days ago

I mean.... trying to pick my words carefully here as it's obv a sensitive issue but what I got from reading most of it (couldn't finish it) is that it was a circle of vv neurotic and intense people who had v unhealthy friendships, like not saying anything Bad didn't happen but.....is it news

lorazepalooza.bsky.social•78 days ago

you found a tactful way to communicate the queasy puzzlement I experienced while reading the first half before I had to tap out

biettetimmons.bsky.social•78 days ago

yes, this was my read of it as well. very much gave me "this is not my business" vibes

mrlukowski.bsky.social•78 days ago

for about 30 seconds I genuinely thought for Vulture had published a lengthy investigation into Mercury nominated Leeds indie band English Teacher and was a bit like ‘I’m sad I’ll have to stop listening to them but I can’t be fucked reading all that to find out why’

magickitten.bsky.social•78 days ago

I was also concerned about this so thank you for dispelling!

unfortunatalie.bsky.social•78 days ago

Thirded, and hit the paywall so was about to go away concluding someone in the band was cancelled for whatever reason

shadowmanos.bsky.social•78 days ago

I have so "never heard of these people" that I thought this was about the indie rock band "English Teacher"

dsquareddigest.bsky.social•78 days ago

"a télévision á clef" now is it. (although aiui this was actually a "yöütûbe á clef")

celestialweasel.bsky.social•77 days ago

That's a bad case of diarhesis, did you eat something dodgy?

jjaron.bsky.social•78 days ago

Wow, this is basically impenetrable. And the author, a staff writer at Vulture, has written all of 10 pieces this year. American journalism is a hell of a thing

youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com•78 days ago

Yeah like I know who the main guy involved is and I've watched bits of the main show mentioned but even I kept being like.....wtf is this all about

jjaron.bsky.social•78 days ago

I just don't understand the editorial process that leads to this being commissioned, let alone published!

youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com•78 days ago

I mean if you think he's famous enough and the allegations are serious enough then by all means do a news story, just don't do.....whatever this is

kapowaz.net•78 days ago

I saw an energetic back and forth related to this article yesterday so figured it must be worth a read but within 2 or 3 minutes of reading I was doing the Tony Soprano squinting face

nickmduffy.bsky.social•78 days ago

as someone who has been eulogising Caleb Gallo to friends since it came out, however… 😬

nickywoolf.bsky.social•78 days ago

THANK YOU. like who the fuck are these people

youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com•78 days ago

Again like I know who the main person is! I've watched some of his stuff, including the show mentioned in the piece! And still I just couldn't manage to read til the end

nickywoolf.bsky.social•78 days ago

yeah I dipped out about a third of the way in

deshocks.bsky.social•78 days ago

remember the bad art friend one… that was similar

louiseankers.bsky.social•78 days ago

I remember that! Yes it was

deshocks.bsky.social•78 days ago

Just could not understand why they devoted newspaper space to a gripe between two friends, it was weird!

louiseankers.bsky.social•78 days ago

Indeed! There was always a thing on Thought Catalog about neurotic millennials extending their relationship friendship drama to allegedly "mean things" more widely but then it escaped the perimeter into like actual newspapers and magazines and confused me....

paulchandler.bsky.social•78 days ago

Personally I will save my free Vulture articles for things like "Every Ryan Gosling movie ranked".

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