Yo I Made Gawker Worth Visiting

"*Now gawker.com is based all the way out in New York City. Gawker's a lot like New York life: fast-paced and on the go. Folks who only have the time to read their top news in the form of five sentences with boiled down CliffsNotes from another actual, better news article. And then they put an editorialized headline on top and call it a day.*"
―Erik
Yo I Made Gawker Worth Visiting is the 31st lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It was released on September 10, 2015.

## Summary

Erik is trying to get his blog up and running, but he's having trouble. He decides to learn how from Gawker. He explains that Gawker is news for people that don't want to read actual news articles. Erik sets 30 seconds on the clock and shares as many Gawker articles he can post to Facebook as he can, to his students' dismay. He notices that the etiquette is acceptable, so he decides to mix things up a little to test the Gawker commenters as TenneseeJack52.

He finds an editorialized article about God hitting a plane with lightning, so Tennessee Jack writes a comment complaining about atheists and New York. Then Erik finds an adorable article about a cat going to high school, but the comments are awful. He wants to warn them about how they need to stop indulging in the culture of fear, but instead he decides to write a comment from Tennessee Jack complaining about his wife and New York.

Erik finds that he's on Kotaku, which is just Gawker for video game nonsense. He doesn't even look at the article and Tennessee Jack explains computer science to suggest that the world is a simulation and to complain about New York. Then Erik returns to his own account and he posts a blog reporting on Tennessee Jack's comments.

## Comments

*I remember this screwdriver going missing weeks ago. I had no idea it was inside my cat. I was looking for this screwdriver everywhere, seriously. I hadn't even thought to check my cat because it's outside all day and the last time I even used my screwdriver it was in the garage. Though sometimes I put my cat in the garage if it's raining out. Maybe that's how it happened. Either way, please subscribe for updates.*
- Erik

*It's not fair that anyone who gets offended by anti-religious sentiments on this website is shouted down like a dog. I think it's funny to a point but jeez guys ya'll get so mean. Sorry I'm not from big fancy New York City where the air is 40% stink dust! Maybe I wouldn't believe in God either if I needed eighteen jobs to afford a fuckin soda. I wanna say our Lord sees your misery and is coming to show you his loving light, but he might have died of old age while looking for a parking spot in your hot fart of a city.*
- TenneseeJack52

*My wife tried to get me to buy her a cat, I said to her why the heck would I buy you a cat when there's about 12 of em roaming around eating up all our summer squash? Women sometimes. But I digress, my wife's a beautiful woman, and I love her with everything I got which is more than I can say about NEW YORK CITY with your pussy ass tofu cakes and everything's gotta covered in goddamn string lights for some reason. You know those string lights are all made in China and probably have fuckin microchips in em listening to all your New York conversations. You can tell who's got that job in China because they're the ones walking around without facemasks, hoping it kills them quicker. Probably will too, that place's air quality is fucked up.*
- TenneseeJack52

*Ya'll ever wonder if we're stuck inside a video game? Like that would explain a lot of stuff right. Because the longer a computer runs a single program without dumping its RAM, the less RAM it's got to continue running that process. So that means with each generation, we're using more and more RAM of the central computer network that powers our reality. It also explains why you NEW YORK millennials turned out so goddamn retarded you jean shorts wearing, activated charcoal drinking, man bun having walking dogs off the leash cause it looks cool can't even see the fucking stars at night punk ass “ewwghh new york makes you tough” yeah right over here in Tennessee you ain't tough until you killed a gator with a boat oar.*
- TenneseeJack52

*It all began on a soft Tuesday evening, within a harmless Gawker post about lightning hitting a plane. The comments section was ablaze with witty glee as always. Things were status quo.**That is, until "TennesseeJack52" took the stage. How his comments were all immediately approved, we may never know. All we can say for sure is
that he was fed up with *something*.**But it didn't stop there. TennesseeJack52 moved on to Gawker affiliate, Jezebel, to lob even more harrasment towards what he calls “PUSSY ASS
TOFU CAKE EATERS," as well as the entire country of China. He gives a shout out to his wife, so we know he's not pissed over a break-up. Maybe he just hates New York? Share this blog post on Facebook if you agree.**How many Gawker reads were affected by this is not yet known here at Commentiquette HQ, which for the record has no line of communication with Gawker whatsoever. If I had to guess as a reporter, I'm gonna say hundreds. Maybe even thousands when you factor in his final comment; The coup de grace on one man's night venting his demons to the world.**We've reached out to TennesseeJack52 via E-Mail, to which he responded with a cell phone video of him shooting a hog.*
- Erik

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