Gawker Media

Gawker is there for all of your snarky and mindless content needs.
Chances are you have already clicked on a link via Twitter or Facebook that brought you to a mildly interesting article on Gawker or Jezebel and laughed a little (you know, that hard breath through your nose kind of laugh) and then clicked the red circle/​X box to close the window and moved on with life never thinking about the piece again. That is what Gawker Media is incredible for: making stupid things entertaining. I have been told that it is a riot when you are high on weed but since I don’t smoke that does nothing for me.
I guess I owe it to Gawker that I know about the Hipster Grifter, the dress with a color nobody could agree on, and that Macaulay Culkin has a T-​shirt of Ryan Gosling wearing a T-​shirt of him.
So there you have it; Gawker is a 3.5 rounded down for sobriety.

Gawker and Jezebel are reliably entertaining, snarky and well-​written blogs, but their comments policy is elitist and absurd.
Basically the only way you can publicly post comments is if you impress the overlords/​editors enough that they find you sufficiently «smart,» «funny,» and «engaging.» See
for the entire list of criteria.
Otherwise, much like Unilocal’s «not recommended» section of reviews, unapproved users’ comments languish on a separate ghetto of a page that hardly anyone clicks on to open.
Erecting a digital barrier to keep out the dirty masses of insufficiently-​entertaining commenters is disenfranchising and alienating. Other sites manage to police their comments sections without seeming like such snooty jerks about it, so why can’t Gawker do the same?

Thanks to Gawker Media, I now know about the following things:
–Baby Mangino
–Carl Monday and his investigations into illicit library shenanigans
–Mutton Bustin’
-«You’re with Me, Leather»
–that a specific sports blogger has a tattoo of a buzzsaw on their ass, and the reason behind said tattoo
–Julia Allison
–That Julia Allison has met Jay Cutler
–The Hipster Grifter and her penchant for the Utah Jazz
–Random Firefox and other apps.
–Cars
–horrible stories about Whack-​A-​Mole competitions
Basically, I’ve learned way too much about a lot of things I probably should have no info on :)

Gawker, for me, was an online revelation: authentic content and smart and savvy commentaries on daily news.
Then it became bitter and sometimes obsessed with trashing people’s reputations (even if they deserve it or not, still there should be a limit). Now it’s too hard to follow because of the incorporation of Valleywag and Defamer on the home page of the crown jewel of Gawker Media, but I have to blame the economy for this mixture.
Nevertheless, Gawker is in my daily ritual of news browsing, but I would like to see more quality stories. Gossip is fun, but in this economy I need something different from a website that is so critical on society and people.
PS. I can’t praise enough «Gawker Artists», because it provides a legit e-​venue for aspiring artists. For me it’s not just a creative incentive, but also an investment on art.

You used to be cool, until you started just filling content for the purposes of filling your new quota (I don’t know if you do, but it seems like it).
You lost your sense of blogger and went straight into paper media mode.
What happened?
PS Julia Allison sucks.

I discovered Defamer and Gawker through the sidebar for Gizmodo. I also read LAist/​SFist daily. I don’t really care for Deadspin or io9. I find the comments for Jezebel the most entertaining of the above but Lifehacker is the only one I read completely before e-​mailing select articles to my boyfriend. This year there seems to be more overlap between Defamer, Gawker, and Jezebel.

Way back when, like, 2 years ago — Gawker was really funny, These days, I dunno what all the fuss is about.
It’s just too mainsteam media now, we know before they lay people off and the comments are bordering on more interesting than the content. It’s become a c-​clist blogger clusterfuck.

How is it you suck my life away? Thanks so much for that.
Also, please stop talking about Julia Allison. I *really* had no clue who she was until I was forced to see her name constantly on your site.
You keep feeding the beast.

Shit, if Gawker Media can pay Tracie & Rich to smoke and dole out advice on a weekly basis, then I LOVE Gawker Media. I vote Pot Psychology videos as the best thing ever to come out of 2008. Everyone else should just go home.
Plus Tracie has inspired me to buy and paint my nails orange– so I’m fucking stimulating the economy too.
And on gawker itself: gossip about media honchos, marc jacobs, & undying love for gg. Good times.

Toxic snark, triple distilled, poured through a mesh spoon into just a dash of sugar water, served piping hot. This is what gets us through the day.
Here are the five things I’ve most enjoyed in Gawker over the past year or so:
Patrick Moberg and the New York Girl of His Dreams
John Fitzgerald Page, Worst Person in the World
Dating Julia Allison
Blue States Lose (sadly, MIA. Who gets tired of looking at party pictures of hipsters amended with zingy commentary?)
Emily and Michelle’s Sisyphean search for a Roommate on Craigslist
Never change, Gawker. Never change…

OMFG I am so upset I’m not the first to review this. I stumbled upon Gawker a few years ago while searching for celebrity gossip, and now it is SO much more to me than that!
This is my go-​to site for all things media, NYC, political (scary, yes, but at least it’s not FOX News!), and overall pop-​culture related stuff. The writers are so brilliantly funny that I seethe with jealousy every day because I wish I had their wit. You can also see me every day doing the silent-​shoulder-​shaking laugh in my cubicle because pretty much everything they write is laugh out loud funny. They are not afraid to call anyone out on their BS, which makes it that much more refreshing than your typical «news» outlet. Read the comments, too — they only make the posts that much better. Also, if you’re into music they have a brother site called
and if you’re a gal check out
, they are equally as special in their own little ways.

This review is for
Great Website. I have never been to New York, but I would like to go one day. When I want to know what’s going on in New York and I am already done looking through the recent issue of The New Yorker I look at
. It makes me feel like a New Yorker, lol.
My favorite part is the Gawker Stalker. It shows what celebrities have been spotted and the location they were spotted at.