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Damn. You didn't like deadspin back in the day? I read that site everyday during its peak.

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Early 2000s Deadspin was soo good.

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Hey! I grew up wanting to be a sports reporter too! I loved the irreverance and gossip of deadspin. Heck, I still love gossip!

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Yeah Gawker was one of those things I moved through the phases on VERY quickly.

In probably less than a year ~2011 I went from "wow this is fun and irreverent" to "wow this is a nest of group-think assholes with actively destructive worldviews".

By 2013 I was more stopping by occasionally to look at it more like a zoo for bad ideas. It was "hate browsing":

Oh here is some brain-dead feminism. Here is a some brain-dead tech reporting. Here is a some brain-dead ACAB nonsense.

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