The artful snarker
I’m feeling pretty good about my digs here at the new tact shack, and I’ll tell you why: I’ve got a new weapon in my snarky arsenal that I couldn’t use very often on Trainwrecks. Subtlety.
Now, let’s be frank, the only reason any of you are reading this is because you enjoyed Trainwrecks. It’s possible that you hated everything I ever wrote, but how would you know? We never assigned credit or bylines and some or all of us lobbed our share of stinkers into the tumblrsphere. I count the Robinette debacle among my own failings, but you only know that because I’m telling you. Trainwrecks writers shared the credit and the censure of everything we posted as a community, and that certainly colored my contributions there.
Here, I’ve got free reign to be earnest if I like, and yet my audience’s expectation is that I’ll break out the snark. And I probably will. But my snark can be much more nuanced than it was at Trainwrecks. This excites the hell out of me.
But I’m totally off topic, I wanted to comment on this post from orderedlists. More specifically, I wanted to comment on his breakdown of the tumblr demographic:
Still, the initial stratification was like this:
- Creators (artists, writers, etc) - very few
- Users (for lack of a better term, people who used the site like a traditional blogging platform) - majority
- “Rebloggers” (negative nellies) - few
Can the “reblogs,” the “negative nellie” blogs, the “annonyblogs,” the “snark blogs” be art?
3 years ago