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Yeah. Last year. Sexually harassed six women. Just google "John Cheese allegations" and you'll get caught up.
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Tart Kitty posted:Yeah. Last year. Sexually harassed six women. Just google "John Cheese allegations" and you'll get caught up. Holy loving poo poo. I had not heard about any of this. e: is this part of why they shut down the forums? I stopped reading them about a year after PWOT became Cracked, and just looked a couple months ago and noticed they were gone. MrMojok fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jun 16, 2019 |
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MrMojok posted:Holy loving poo poo. I had not heard about any of this. I think that was tied to Cracked basically having to let go a whole bunch of their staff. Cheese was still writing for them after that though. John Cheese's writing got scrubbed from Cracked and also The Modern Rogue after it happened though.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 05:45 |
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Yikes, no wonder why Cracked dropped off the map I had no idea about any of that either
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 05:54 |
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And, again, it's also important to keep in mind that there is some pretty good evidence that David Wong covered for Cheese while he was harassing people. At the very least it seems like he tried to buffer its presence on Cracked.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 05:58 |
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From what I'm reading now, this all started way before Cracked, too.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 06:10 |
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Pete Holmes has some thoughts about Louis CK https://twitter.com/sasimons/status/1140036631128240128?s=21 https://twitter.com/bulkusbchargers/status/1140040125453361152?s=21 https://twitter.com/sasimons/status/1140045047422828544?s=21
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 06:47 |
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Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 08:22 |
Tart Kitty posted:And, again, it's also important to keep in mind that there is some pretty good evidence that David Wong covered for Cheese while he was harassing people. At the very least it seems like he tried to buffer its presence on Cracked. Even before the sexual harassment stuff, Cheese had gotten into it with the community over a really dumb article he wrote in 2012 that was assumed to be an attack on all the people making fun of his articles in the comments. It turned into a big thing where David Wong started banning people who weren't pro-Cheese and calling the readers "punk teenagers" and "cockroaches". David Wong is just a gigantic rear end who loves to hear himself talk and continues his opinion to be the authority on everything.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 16:21 |
Steve Yun posted:Yikes, no wonder why Cracked dropped off the map Cracked dropped off the map because they laid off their entire video department to cut costs, and turns out that’s what got them most of their attention.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:15 |
A lot of the articles have factual errors as well, to the point where sometimes they’ve used sources that say the opposite of what the article claims. No point in reading even interesting listicles if they’re wrong.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:19 |
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Didn't something came out about another Python, Terry Gilliam, at some point?
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:27 |
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Joe Chill posted:Didn't something came out about another Python, Terry Gilliam, at some point? Terry Gilliam said some stupid poo poo about Me Too and Weinstein.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:42 |
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I know he has opinions about Amber Heard.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:43 |
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Joe Chill posted:Didn't something came out about another Python, Terry Gilliam, at some point? John CHEESE, not John Cleese
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:51 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:John CHEESE, not John Cleese This threw me for a while too.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:52 |
John Cleese is a racist gammon though.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:53 |
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chitoryu12 posted:John Cleese is a racist gammon though. Old, white, British? Checks out.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:55 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:John CHEESE, not John Cleese Haha ok my bad.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:59 |
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gilliam out there saying he's a black lesbian and cleese tweeting "how can racism b real if race isnt real.... "
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 18:14 |
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chitoryu12 posted:A lot of the articles have factual errors as well, to the point where sometimes they’ve used sources that say the opposite of what the article claims. No point in reading even interesting listicles if they’re wrong. It also seemed like at least one person from Cracked was just taking content from SA, because a not insignificant amount of their lists would match content that was just mentioned in a PYF thread.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 18:22 |
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I'm not sure if Cracked's writing went on a decline or I just got more tired of them as the years went by. David Wong always did have this annoying "I'm about to drop some TRUTH on you" voice, though.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 18:25 |
Joe Chill posted:Didn't something came out about another Python, Terry Gilliam, at some point? https://deadline.com/2018/03/ellen-barkin-terry-gilliam-me-too-times-up-sexual-harassment-1202339974/
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 18:43 |
The worst David Wong article is where he took Alec Baldwin’s monologue from Glengarry Glen Ross as a literal statement of truth for how the world works and everyone just needs to suck it up and accept that they don’t matter unless they push to beat everyone else.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 18:44 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:John CHEESE, not John Cleese Tuxedo Catfish posted:This threw me for a while too. Joe Chill posted:Haha ok my bad. Little trivia: Cleese's family's surname was Cheese, until his grandfather (I think) changed it.
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chitoryu12 posted:The worst David Wong article is where he took Alec Baldwin’s monologue from Glengarry Glen Ross as a literal statement of truth for how the world works and everyone just needs to suck it up and accept that they don’t matter unless they push to beat everyone else. The most heartless character in the movie giving the most unsympathetic speech which sets the tone for a story about human beings loving eachother over remorselessly...is good?
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 19:39 |
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Nevermind, veering off topic
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 20:34 |
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thrawn527 posted:Cracked dropped off the map because they laid off their entire video department to cut costs, and turns out that’s what got them most of their attention. Yeah, but they did that because the video department was bleeding them dry since they made a hard pivot to video after Facebook lied to every media company about how much people wanted video content. They were absolutely mismanaged, but there are other factors.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 20:44 |
Skwirl posted:Yeah, but they did that because the video department was bleeding them dry since they made a hard pivot to video after Facebook lied to every media company about how much people wanted video content. They were absolutely mismanaged, but there are other factors. True, I’m just salty because I really liked the video content they were putting out, and now those writers have scattered to the wind and are hard to find content from. It worked out for some (one is now a writer on Last Week Tonight, and another is a writer for American Dad) and I’m happy for them, I just miss the content. Those two who got those good jobs just started a podcast together, though, so that’s good. Anyway, way off topic, so I’ll shut up now.
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thrawn527 posted:True, I’m just salty because I really liked the video content they were putting out, and now those writers have scattered to the wind and are hard to find content from. It worked out for some (one is now a writer on Last Week Tonight, and another is a writer for American Dad) and I’m happy for them, I just miss the content. Check out Off Hours.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 21:17 |
Skwirl posted:Check out Off Hours. I saw the first episode. It’s...fine, but it still needs to find its footing.
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GrandpaPants posted:https://deadline.com/2018/03/ellen-barkin-terry-gilliam-me-too-times-up-sexual-harassment-1202339974/ Yeah, that's it. lovely dude.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 21:38 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Even before the sexual harassment stuff, Cheese had gotten into it with the community over a really dumb article he wrote in 2012 that was assumed to be an attack on all the people making fun of his articles in the comments. It turned into a big thing where David Wong started banning people who weren't pro-Cheese and calling the readers "punk teenagers" and "cockroaches". Wong was good at writing about video games. Not great, but good. Then he convinced himself that he was good at writing about everything else, including the very nature of happiness. He tried to write this thing on Trump voters, but his big conclusion was just 'things are bad in the country' which is the same tired take everyone had.
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 00:47 |
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chitoryu12 posted:The worst David Wong article is where he took Alec Baldwin’s monologue from Glengarry Glen Ross as a literal statement of truth for how the world works and everyone just needs to suck it up and accept that they don’t matter unless they push to beat everyone else. Tbh going by his current politics, Mamet would probably agree with that reading
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 01:30 |
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I made the mistake of renting Oleanna and it's literally a filmed play
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Alan Smithee posted:I made the mistake of renting Oleanna and it's literally a filmed play Of all the things to take issue with Oleanna, that's a hell of a complaint
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 06:35 |
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I mean I like to think the implication of all the things that come with it is clear
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 07:34 |
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https://twitter.com/billcosby/status/1140439088241217537?s=21 And you thought oj twitter was bringing the heat
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 16:15 |
Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/billcosby/status/1140439088241217537?s=21 https://twitter.com/rimonima/status/1140459466845876224
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