Tired of being a blog, and the negative connotations that come with ‘being a blogger.’ I possibly want to be ‘a writer’ instead of ‘a blogger.’ I don’t want to have a blog, I want to have a well-respected website that provides insightful commentary on relevant issues, and gets Dugg. I am not sure how to accomplish my goals.
I might try to make my website ‘less bloggy.’ Not sure how to do this. Maybe if I turn off comments, my posts will seem more ‘absolute’, like it doesn’t matter what n e 1 says. Maybe I will change my font. I recently read that Helvetty is an ‘immature font.’ Just want to be taken seriously, and seem ‘hella attractive’ to advertisers who want to reach the most coveted demographics.
Just want to ‘report stuff’, but also write ‘very formally’ without any gimmicks, even if it feels less natural to me. Just tired of being a blog any more. Not even sure if my goal in life is to be ‘worth blogging about’ n e more. Just feel like everything is irrelevant. Part of the alternative long tail, or something.
Feeling meaningless. Feeling like even when u become ‘relevant’ on the internet, maybe it’s still a lil meaningless. Sad. Not sure if I still want to be a ‘blog.’ Not sure if ‘blogging’ is a viable career option. My parents are making me change majors from Design to Chemistry so that I can get into medical school.
Not sure who I am n e more.
‘Another day, another meme.’
‘So Many blogs, so many memes.’
‘So many memes, so many [vias].’
‘So many buzzbands, so many pitchforks.’
‘So many niche blogs, so many ad spaces.’
‘2Many Bloggers.’
Might start a ‘website for opinions’ instead of a ‘blog.’ Might be a dying format, kinda like ‘magazines/newspapers.’
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good night, sweet prince
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//////////Reply by James
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
@skybreads,
like i said before… but i been away from the internets….
my email is jf827504@ohio.edu
i let it be known because i’m serious.
i’ll soon start a website, a sort of ‘anti-hipsterrunoff’
the reason for this startup is simple: carles tries to fit into too many age groups, consumer projections, etc.
“going to prom” “design school” etc., he tries to appeal to too many groups to be in and ‘alt’ / etc / whatever the word this moment is for cool,
he wants to be similar to the ‘masked dj / exotic / unkown is cooler / ‘it’s not about me’ aesthetic, so he doesn’t let us know who he truly is, his age, etc.
i’m not about that. i’d like to consider myself more real.
let’s all do it together.
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//////////Reply by 555
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
@James,
worst troll ever. if you are TRULY serious, then you really don’t ‘get’ it.
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//////////Reply by Chrises
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 12:23 am
@James,
GO BUCKEYES…..
jk hate those fuckers
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//////////Reply by jjj
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 1:42 am
@Chrises, omg ohio. sad.
//////////Reply by James
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
@Chrises,
bonjour!
i have never attended the ohio state university / buckeyes.
i’m not a big fan.
let’s do this.
//////////Reply by megatitz
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
@James, a real blogger is never ‘away’ from the internet [via having a 'real' life].
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//////////Reply by megatitz
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 8:34 am
@skybreads, you’ve got to ‘let go’. there will be no beauty in this brkdwn.
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//////////Reply by abc
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
HRO’s wackk.
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It’s okay, Crls.
You’ll get back in the spirit when you’re feeling good and lonely/insightful/inspiredbymemez again.
Blog is love. Blog is angst. Blogger is blogging.
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no carles u cannot sacrifice your personal brand!
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//////////Reply by anna
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
@strawberryjam, seconded
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//////////Reply by nonny
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
@anna, thirded
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//////////Reply by don
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
@CRLS, carles
write a screenplay, mang. make it RAW.
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//////////Reply by non
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
@Dave, this is prbly why he wants to stop… ‘mang’
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You could be the next chuck klosterman. Drop out of the blogosphere. Your work here is done.
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//////////Reply by 555
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
@Aman,
Carles must have def read ‘Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs’ in college
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Carles, this is only a natural step in the progression of a true blogger. tomorrow you will realize how silly this outburst was and begin to understand that internet fame is the only important thing in our world.
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Just tired of being a blog any more.
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Peace
P.S Just dont bust a comeback where revealing your identity will be the gimmick.
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//////////Reply by you_r_not_pun_k
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
@anonymous, or like having ur site get hacked and then get it back and keep blogging.
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//////////Reply by skybreads
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
@you_r_not_pun_k,
I like that the Onion stole that gimmick this past week. Kinda. Eh.
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Helvetica is gay as a fag.
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no! i’ll kill myself if it’s trew.
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I think now is a good time 2 follow your dreams/reach for the stars post-HRO carles. really feels like the era you were documenting so well has been over for 10+ months
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
@lol, don’t let ‘em hold u down/reach 4 the stars
–the notorious H.R.O.
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uhh i dunno, maybe you should stop putting all of these shitty ads up. and if you must support urself in this way consider not accepting money from perv/ misogynist companies. THATS A START
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we love you! we want you to live! [via parker posey]
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Think turning off the comments is kind of like “dictatorship rule”. But if I were you Carles, I might do the same thing and cancel the blog, it’s kind of embarrassing when most of your readers are entry-level tweens and only reading this to pick up tips.
TBH I didn’t even read this post. Just saw the title.
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//////////Reply by ihaveaznfrendz
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
@Z, maybe he should make it a tip for entry level tweens father figure website?
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//////////Reply by elle
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
@ihaveaznfrendz, seconded
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I support your decision to quit posting ‘alt porn’ for ad $$$ in favor of writing copy-edited non fiction for publishing $$$. Sincerely,
Hipster English Major
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You should podcast more.
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lol how often does he do this now
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can’t tell if carles is actually thinking of giving up blogging or if he just has a quota of ‘i’m quitting’ posts he must do every month
maybe he’s not making enough $$ off his lil web ads
guess it doesn’t really matter. sooner or later HRO will be gone/archived for eternity
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//////////Reply by Mean Mr Mustard
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
@Chrises, totes agree
coldplay do this a lot too – at the end of every album cycle they always go ‘oh well take a break…this might be the last album etc etc etc’
it creates tension and drama and ‘validates’ the brand/band by demonstrating how ‘easy’ it would be to walk away. fuck bloggers who do this whole ‘oh im quitting’ hand-wringing bullshit. wanna quit carles? say nothing and just delete the blog. its literally the most authentic way to go..
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emo carles sucks
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Actually, you should probably quit and go out on a high note.
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no carles i would be ’so sad’
even if you kept the format and got someone else in charge ‘nothing compares 2 u’. nd what i am saying is that i just want 2 b reading HRO for as long as possibl
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I was just discussing, yesterday, how happy carles seems lately…quality, funny posts, no ‘quiting’ posts, quality music posts, etc. Now…YOU BLEW IT!!!!!!
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bye
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think hro should have regular contributions from leading voices in the altsphere [via Huffington Post]
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//////////Reply by Chrises
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
@vivi,
Huffington Runoff?
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bout time you realized this
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//////////Reply by dai
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
@duder, you suck, go die in a hole
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ttyl
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you are too good at being a blogger to do anything else for the rest of your life.
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You’re going to become a DJ, aren’t you?
*sigh*
I suppose it was inevitable.
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i don’t wanna be alt anymore. feel like people i used to look up to are actually ‘hella dumb’ and boring and that there’s less separation than ever between alt and mnstrm. don’t think it is a fondness for irony that enables ‘alts’ to watch gossip girl/listen to jay z/consume mnstrm cultural products, but a natural affinity for those products. on a macro scale, ‘alt’ is no longer ‘elite’ and only signifies a separation b/w the ignorant and the utterly ignorant. sad.
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//////////Reply by paco
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
@daffy, yes kind of
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//////////Reply by honestly
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
@daffy, keep it up
i wanna hear more
what are alts ignorant of?
what are you?
these are all serious questions
plz answer
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//////////Reply by anonyt
//////////Posted July 27th, 2009 at 1:56 am
@honestly, “what are alts ignorant of?”
<3
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//////////Reply by repentant alt
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
@daffy, i feel the same way. i don’t want to be alt anymore but i don’t know how to be anything else. don’t know how to transition my personal brand/stop caring about the sillie things alts care about. plz elaborate on yr feelings
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//////////Reply by Chrises
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 12:49 am
@repentant alt,
WTF, is this some kind of protestant altianity
like each alts brand/personality is defined by the individual separate from any institutions.
don’t have to adhere to any larger alt norms. don’t have to dress a certain way, buy certain computer products, get a silly haircut. just have to be alt.
is carles the martin luther of middle class white bros who buy macbooks and drink pbr and never have to really care about money in any meaningful way i.e. worrying about going 30k in debt is a joke compared to someone living paycheck to paycheck.
or is he the pope of mngmt and anco and grizzly bear attacks who acts zany along incredibly well defined and established lines. make an unintelligable noise in the right clothes and they will come.
is me.n bahut gussa mujhe aatii hai.
franziskaner hefe weisse was drank
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//////////Reply by erica
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
@daffy + others
fuck yall
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What are y’all’s blogs? Trolly wants to troll!
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Even though there’s little money in putting your opinion out there, yours is entertaining.
I’m just some bro who wears cargo shorts and sandles with plain t-shirts. I am not alt. And I am not entry level. But I enjoy reading your blog because it transcends the trendiness of alt-culture: everyone is out there searching for something meaningful, hungry for someone to ‘cum with’: both the point and the joke.
You’re not just lampooning one niche of humanity, you’re lampooning humanity itself. And this is the only way for us.
Maybe I’m just ‘easily amused’ [via Cobainbro]
Or maybe we’re all just different iterations of the same Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Can’t wait til you become a cereal.
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//////////Reply by AstroCandy
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
@neednotapply, wat
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pull an ‘arrested development’ bro
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this was a blog?
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idgi.
is this post about crls being sad because hros hits are down?
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brosef, i no hoow u feeel.
but if u stawp blogging, i wont hav shit to reeed!
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 1:26 am
@werbz, suck will bakers cock
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Please just go.
Sick of having to read Exergis via RSS and having a dictionary up in another tab.
Sick of u ‘beating me to my own emotional conclusions’.
Sick of leaving comments that have to contain ‘u’ instead of ‘you’ just so ppl no i get u.
Sick of making lists.
Sick of not starting sentences with ‘I’.
Sick of needing 2 read ur ”’’shit””
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//////////Reply by brian
//////////Posted July 24th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
@L, relatable
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//////////Reply by Chrises
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 12:31 am
@L,
HRO exogenesis is the worst thing ever created by humanity.
reminds me of my friend who majored in philosophy.
everything he writes is pretty much complete nonsense.
proof:
“Shame is structured by our understanding of being in time, our thing-ness. ”
objections?
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//////////Reply by vivi
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 9:47 am
@Chrises, p. sure exogenesis is a parody of impenetrable/pedantic academic language [via Sokal Affair]
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//////////Reply by Rebutaller
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
@Chrises, HROE is not nonsense and @vivi it is not a parody. That sentence quoted by @Chrises contains terms such as ‘being’ and ‘time’ and ‘thing-ness.’ These terms are defined, passed down, challenged, and redefined over the years by philosophers. These words are not made up willy-nilly by writers, rather they are used (if correctly) only after studying the complexities of their meanings in the past.
Anyways, not knocking, just adding my two cents via [not being afraid to post serious comments on HRO]. ‘Someone’ may like it.
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//////////Reply by Rebutaller
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
@WHOEVER WRITES HRO EXEGESIS: I would comment on your site but the comments are broken (at least for me). Please fix unless they are supposed to be broken (not necessarily a bad idea).
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being ‘alt’ these days is as mainstream as goth kids who shop at hot topic. counter culture is as meaningful as a che guevera shirt. there are other fuckin things we should be worried about these days amirite? now im gonna go plant a tree then tug one off before bed.
p.s. and yes blogging is about as cool as twilight fanfiction, but at least this blog was different, it was more like wft y’all.
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Wow, Carles, you sound like a whiny bitch.
But I suppose it’s about time..
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//////////Reply by Chrises
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 12:33 am
@we tigers,
carles sounds like a whiny bitch once every 23 posts
think he might be an emotional breakdown bro
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i also turn 23 s00n.
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end yr lyf, kill yr wife
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hipster runoff was pretty cool. carles is cool.
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this feels… relevant
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”a true champion, face to face with his darkest hour, will do whatever it takes to rise above. a man fights, and fights, and then fights some more. because surrender is death, and death is for pussies. undaunted, just like in life, all of of my successes depend on me. i’m the man who has the ball. i’m the man who can throw it faster than fuck. so that is why i am better than everyone in the world.” – kenny powers
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think ’sick of blogging’ posts are ‘just another meme.’ you should quit blogging posts abt quitting blogging.
HRO IS DEAD.
ALT/MNSTRM IS DEAD.
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To be honest if every comment on this site were to go away I woudln’t really mind GO FOR IT
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stop trying so hard, just ‘be’ and ‘have fun’
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What is this, like, “a desperate cry for help v9.0″?
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what? tails can be a bithc.\////
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whatever. turn off comments. they’re stupid anyway. a leader is only as good as his followers.
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Just reading these comments are pathetic. People just debating what is alt and shit like that. Complaining alt is now mainstream. Yea, there is a bunch of little hipster kids now a days but who gives a fuck. Its a fucking cycle. Happens all the time. The counter culture becomes the main culture. But who really gives a shit. People like what they like, listen to the music they want to listen to and do what they want to do. There’s no reason why you should even care about anybody else. If you even begin to think if anything you do makes you alt or not, your already a fucking hipster. There shouldn’t even be the word hipster. Hipsters are just people that are already idiots and nothing more. Just like when people call a stereotypical obnoxious black person a nigger. There just an idiot that happens to be black.
Its also obvious most of these comments are just people trying to be there own meme. Trying to do the sarcasm that Carles does but they just suck at life. It shows what HRO is coming to and it just needs to die. Its been needing to die. So Carles thanks for the laughs and goodbye. Please don’t come back again or you really are past the point of being relevant.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 10:45 am
@anonymous, i could’t have said it better myself!
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//////////Reply by you_r_not_pun_k
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
@anon, you guys dont get it.
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//////////Reply by megatitz
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
@anonymous, ‘there are just an idiot that happens to be black’
someone napped during literature and english composition.
you are just an idiot that happens to be an idiot.
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//////////Reply by anonyt
//////////Posted July 27th, 2009 at 2:06 am
@megatitz, smart + megatitz?? marry me
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted July 26th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
@anonymous, h8 that u don’t ‘get’ it.
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weak post carles
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sleek coast sarsles
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yr becoming more lame by the day
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Well, what are y’all’s websiteblogs?
Troll is trolling!
let’s make blagfriends
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YA BRO
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Get over this website… it’s become a parody of itself.
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//////////Reply by Hung Fa Lo
//////////Posted July 25th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
@hamsam, wasn’t that always the main point?
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i dont get it yall?
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‘Plz, plz, don’t leave me.’
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man, someone poured stupid into the commenter koolaid tonight.
<3 u crls
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cry me a river
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if this post reaches >100 cmmnts, will u stay?
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tl;dr ur gay
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Stop bitching.
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stop now or publish less or something. most of your posts are real boring/very similar to other posts.
isn’t this the second (third?) time you have threatened to quit? maybe you should.
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thanks for reconsidering… i just found this place existed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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