Unrelated Content

So the other day I was browsing the only tolerable Gawker Media property (Consumerist was sold to Consumer Reports), and I vaguely noticed this article about PSHome vs. Second Life which had the following picture posted above it:

So I of course assumed that the comparison would indicate that there were creepy furries and weeaboos all over SL, the end.

Seems I was holding out too much hope for mankind. The author, Mike Fahey, followed up this morning with this gem: Furries, Nekos, and Tinies: A Field Guide To Second Life Animal Hybrids accompanied by this horrific picture:

Now, besides “I am officially done reading Kotaku”, it occurred to me that Mr. Fahey has inadvertently indulged in a practiced that I’ve noticed more and more niche bloggers getting into lately: sharing way too much about themselves.

I’m not saying that if you happen to take low-end softcore photos for a living you can’t also post about politics. I’m saying that unless you’re posting about a ban on shitty wank photos, I don’t really need to know about it.

I get that on occasion, perhaps to justify a position on a certain topic in an opinion piece, a tidbit will trickle out here and there. But on the whole I’ve enjoyed many posts by many different bloggers in which their sexual proclivities or taste in clothing never once came into play. Lately though it seems that everyone’s confused the blogosphere with a substitute for LiveJournal.

I, and I think most people like me, visit topic-specific blogs to read about- get this- specific topics. I go to CamdenChat.com to read about the terrible Baltimore Orioles. I go to Consumerist to read about airline fees. If I wanted to learn things about random strangers on the internet, I’d read grouphug.us.

So I’m begging you, random people who aggregate my news and political opinion pieces: keep that shit to yourself.