In which print media catches on pathetically late, yet again, to the internet — this time around, the incredibly obvious blog-democritization-realtime-crowdsourcing-whatever “TREND” which the music industry pretty obviously (and more publicly) witnessed a few years before fashion and yet is strangely similar in its uncomfortable dismantling of the upper echelons (and by that I mean paychecks) of its repsective “industry” and only just NOW are we figuring out that like, oh shit, this whole internet thing affects, like, EVERYTHING, and what the hell are we going to do now that it’s becoming obvious that advertising doesn’t really work and isn’t worth the money and these kids and their computers might have good ideas/talent/content/whatever too, which is cool and all but then it also pretty much means I’m never going to get paid to write or take photos ever so Imma just keep on blogging or whatever but we all KNOW that and accept it even though it sucks and our ~childhood dreams are totally crushed~ (incidentally that’s a link to a fairly great article on Gakwer which sums up the depressing realization we’ve all come to, and also why it’s a good thing those internships at Spin/Nylon/Vogue/etc I applied for years ago for never worked out) but we know we’ll figure other things out (the resolution to the above existential malaise being why I work in and actually enjoy digital marketing), it’s just that the old people whose jobs/identity/industries/whatever are being eaten away by Hype Machine / Tavi can’t adapt or deal with it and so we all have to suffer through these REVOLUTIONARY ARTICLES ON BLOGGERS which makes me want to read newspapers even less.
At some point I really should stop posting links like this because my eyeballs are just going to roll so far back into my head they’re going to stick and I’m still going to be typing epic-run-on rants against cringeworthy media analysis, and THEN where would we be?!
