“The trend away from engineered laughter can be seen through the Emmys: Of the five shows nominated in 2000 for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, four of the five used laugh tracks. In 2009, seven shows were nominated for the same award, and only one used a laugh track.” –B.K. Marcus, “Did Capitalism…
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. Earth is complicated, because men have a penis. I came across an article from the Guardian that attacked the common male practice of standing while urinating. I was vexed by this, especially after it took a recent court order to confirm that German men weren’t legally…
After being shadowbanned on Reddit after just 17 days, I wrote an article about the experience. I realized after writing it that many people might not even know what shadowbanning is. What is Shadowbanning? The urban dictionary’s top definition states that “shadowbanning” is: Banning a user from a web forum in such a…
“I hope you’ll appreciate that if we just start deleting ratings whenever we feel like it, that we’ve gone down a censorship road that doesn’t take us to a good place.” –Otis Chandler Less than 17 days after joining Reddit, I was shadowbanned. I asked administrators why, and they ignored me. The irony of…
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