Metafilter in the AV Club

December 16, 2014 12:42 PM

JHarris's epic licensed character Christmas specials post made the Onion A.V. Club. It would have been nice if they had mentioned JHarris and not just "Metafilter" but eh.
posted by Chrysostom to MetaFilter-Related at 12:42 PM (20 comments total)

Thanks for being not the AV Club, metafilter! I love reading threads without comments about masturbating to 80s cartoon characters.
posted by ChuraChura at 12:53 PM on December 16, 2014 [24 favorites]

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(I suck at this and words fail me. So...)
posted by Michele in California at 12:56 PM on December 16, 2014

Seconded, ChuraChura. Yikes.

Well, it's nice for one's work to be recognized. I'll pass this news along to my friend who pointed me to the Wacky Wallwalker thing.
posted by JHarris at 1:02 PM on December 16, 2014 [4 favorites]

I love reading threads without comments about masturbating to 80s cartoon characters.

Never read the comments. Not even this one.
posted by bondcliff at 1:03 PM on December 16, 2014 [2 favorites]

I've seen some pretty insightful and humorous stuff in the AV Club comments. But they definitely have a much higher tolerance for creeps and assholes.

AV Club is probably midpoint between YouTube and Metafilter comments.
posted by Chrysostom at 1:07 PM on December 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

Some* days I'm thankful that Disqus or Facebook comments or whatever it is never seem to load for me!

*All
posted by TwoWordReview at 1:27 PM on December 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

Comments? Yeah, thanks, Noscript.
posted by marienbad at 1:46 PM on December 16, 2014 [4 favorites]

The "Great Job, Internet!" section of the A.V. Club is basically just "Hey, let's copy MetaFilter!," so it's kind of weird to see them actually copping to that every now and then, as they did when they linked to Room 641-A's Halloween specials post and jrossi4r's Halloween costumes post.

FWIW, "Great Job, Internet!" is unanimously loathed by the A.V. Club's userbase, who prefer thought-out reviews of pop culture over links to random internet stuff. So, JHarris, take the fact that most of the comments aren't some variation on "Oh, fuck off, internet" as very high praise.
posted by Sys Rq at 3:05 PM on December 16, 2014 [8 favorites]

I keep reading that as Wacky Wallander, which would make an AWESOME holiday special.
posted by pibeandres at 4:27 PM on December 16, 2014 [2 favorites]

Tis the Season to Megapost. Fa la la la la la la la la la la lala la la la laaaaaa
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:33 PM on December 16, 2014 [4 favorites]

Especially if you just pretend it scans and sing it list TIS the SEAson TO muh-GAP-post.
posted by nebulawindphone at 6:44 PM on December 16, 2014 [2 favorites]

Tried to let it go, but the reality is 80s cartoons are the best.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:10 PM on December 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

It's interesting that you attributed the post to the Onion A.V. Club instead of the author, Rob Dean.
posted by grouse at 4:37 AM on December 17, 2014 [8 favorites]

Turnabout and fair play and all that.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:03 AM on December 17, 2014

take the fact that most of the comments aren't some variation on "Oh, fuck off, internet" as very high praise.

The meta is strong with this stuff.
posted by RolandOfEld at 6:25 AM on December 17, 2014

grouse: "It's interesting that you attributed the post to the Onion A.V. Club instead of the author, Rob Dean."

Yeah, fair enough, although I'm reasonable certain JHarris put *a lot* more effort into what he created.
posted by Chrysostom at 6:52 AM on December 17, 2014 [3 favorites]

True, and I know it's not really the same thing since the A.V. Club has a much higher degree of responsibility for that page than MetaFilter does for this. But they're both examples of a widespread habit of crediting articles to the publisher rather than the author.
posted by grouse at 9:55 AM on December 17, 2014

I like Daring Fireball's take on this. Gruber doesn't give credit to those who don't. It gets comedic at times.

A bigger peeve of mine is when sites don't link to the content at all. You'll read a news story and it will credit another website, and even quote from that site, but it's like they don't understand hypertext. CNN does this entirely too often and is one of the reasons I quit visiting that site on any kind of regular basis.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:08 AM on December 17, 2014 [4 favorites]

I love reading threads without comments about masturbating to 80s cartoon characters.

*looks at the furry fandom and sighs heavily*

*facepaw*
posted by hippybear at 2:02 AM on December 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

That's how one gets gassed.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:32 AM on December 18, 2014