- NOW WHAT: Ooh looky, the word “Wonkette” was used once in one article in today’s liberal New York Times: “Stranger still, the birth of Cute Overload was almost purely accidental. Meg Frost, a 36-year-old design manager at Apple, started cuteoverload.com three years ago to test Web software. Within months, it became an online institution, drawing about 88,000 unique visitors a day — about the same as the political gossip blog Wonkette.” Delightful. The lesson: even websites that manage to be shittier than Wonkette can attract very large followings. [NYT]
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Jim Newell (5418)
Wonkette Jr. (623)
Kirsten Boyd Johnson (796)
Kaia Mursi (43)
Garrett Quinn (13)
Liz Colville (94)
Ken Layne (6695)
Blair Burke (170)
Matt Langer (40)
Arielle Fleisher (385)
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Hah hah! By mistake, I went to CuteOverlord.com! I must be a Wonkette reader!
Even cuteoverload.com does not contain the adorableness that is Bill Kristol.
Holy crap! They’ve got a cat with four ears on there now. They should rename the site creepoverload.com.
You dump on CuteOverload at your own peril, Newell. Watch yourself, or you’ll never enjoy a snorgle again.
Nothin’ cute and fuzzy here, we’re all sharp and pointy…
Sites like fluffyslitterboxcam.com and whatsbehindmysofa.net get more views than Wonkette every day, but it doesn’t mean they have any redeeming value.
I’m switching my default home page from NY Times to CuteOverload.
[re=63696]Serolf Divad[/re]: You must’ve gone to mutationoverload.com by mistake.
If I hadn’t just gone over there, though, I’d never heave learned about the Tiddy Bear! Wonkette needs more stuffed animals stuffed in cleavage!
[re=63688]Godless Liberal *[/re]: Or do they?
… do pictures not work in the comments, I never figured that out.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6262/thatisnotfunnyyt4.jpg
http://wonkette.com/assets/resources/2007/12/kristolNYT.jpg
Don’t hate on the Cuteoverload. I loves that website. Makes me feel clean and pure after diving into the putrid waters that are Our Wonkette.
[re=63742]NoWireHangers[/re]:
And vicey versie.
I’m the kind of modern gal that can go from the snark to the snorgle and back again…I mean, really, isn’t a cute wittle kitteh worth a thousand snarling Hillarys or Botoxed McCain foreheads?
I just popped over to Cute Overload and the top two posts are eerily similar to Wonkette: Yoda-speak and Wilford Brimley jokes.
When you click on the Amazon.com link in the article, instead of taking you to the Cute Overload calendar, it takes you to an NYT corporate profile of AMZN. I hate that. Who designed these links, a strategy consultant? I’m so angry, I’m going to kill my subscription to the Times (ha! like I’ve ever subscribed to a newspaper!) and buy the CuteOverload calendar, and I’m not even a lonely, angsty 18-34 yr old female college grad.
Jim, so you are saying Wonkette is a shitty website, even though there are others that are shittier.
Well Wonkette is the sum of its shitty parts. Us. HaHaHa.
I do not think Wonkette is a “shitty website” as you put it. I always enjoy reading your articles and posts! You make me laugh regularly. Keep ‘em coming.
only 88,000 unique views a day? There’s a simple way to increase those views. Three words. More. Ass. Fucking.
[re=63719]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: And Wonkette’s redeeming value is? Thinking. Thinking some more. Still thinking. Feeling a blinding headache behind my eyes. Now vomitting on my shoes. Thinking slowing down. Coma.
[re=63742]NoWireHangers[/re]: I see your point. It’s so cleansing to visit after a swim in the turgid intellectual mire that is teh Wonkette: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/geeross/index.html
Speaking of intellectual mire, where’s our latest Paultard poster, “[Miss] Liberty”?
[re=63869]S.Luggo[/re]: How’d they get that picture of my apartment?
[re=63687]loquaciousmusic[/re]: CuteOverlord.com suggests these related searches: Russian Wife, Women, Bunny Costume, Cat Toys, Car Insurance, Cats, Make Love, Dog Lover, Gift, Dog Cat, Russian Brides.
This ontology disturbs me. Especially “Dog Cat.”
CuteOverload owns.
Longtime reader, first time commenter: Shittier than wonkette was four years ago, when you actually broke news? Yes. Shittier than wonkette now? Sorry. Cuteoverload knows its subject, owns its subject, and is constantly finding new ways of explicating that subject. But don’t worry, I read Wonkette every day. I don’t know why, but I do.
Forget breaking news, how about writing anything worth reading?
>The lesson: even websites that manage to be shittier than Wonkette can attract very large followings.
The funny thing is that once, Wonkette was a hilarious, brilliantly written blog. It was a *must-read* for everybody in DC. Now it’s nothing but dorm-room (or basement) screeds written by an obnoxious, frat-boy hack. It’s nothing. It means nothing. It’s utterly ineffectual.
I know that if it were me who took over Wonkette and ran it into the ground this horribly, I wouldn’t dare make fun of any other sites anywhere. If *my* site were being eclipsed by a cute-animal site, I wouldn’t dare say anything bad about anyone anywhere, ever. In fact, I’d be so thoroughly humiliated, I’d have to give it up entirely. Out of whatever pride I might have left.
So. I’m glad I’m not you. Glad I’m not a complete failure. Not a complete laughingstock. Not a washout.
Oh, and in case that didn’t sufficiently insult you because you failed to understand any of it: You, uh, liberal you.
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