aloha nico.

fatmanatee:

bestrooftalkever:

Are you sick of people making money off of trolling you? So is Maura Johnston.

Whether or not HEART2HEART is serious is, of course, beside the point in a way; the song is catchy enough and the content absurd enough that “Facebook Official” is being passed around by even those sites that aren’t pop-specialist outlets, and in the current moment where record sales mean less and less because there are fewer of them happening the idea of attention as currency is ever more important. Which might be, at least in part, why this year has been defined by musical artists getting attention for being, in some way, annoying.

The absolute worst thing about the internet is the way that it cultivates the creation of awful content. In a world based mostly on page views and sharing, it’s always easier to amass solidarity over how bad something is, rather than good. If a song is one of the worst songs you’ve ever heard, if an article is one of the most uninformed and insensitive pieces you’ve ever read, or if Courtney Stodden, your friends will probably also agree with you. By adhering to this, more and more content pops up with the specific intention of getting on your nerves. This is not only bad in the sense that it lowers the quality stuff we see, but it also aggravates an online mentality that has been sharpened on hating things rather than enjoying them. It will be harder for young people to develop a good taste for thoughtful, carefully crafted things.

But read the article quoted above. It’s really good.

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Source: bestrooftalkever