Jen Gotch Tries To Find The Lesson In A Urinating Woman

Jen Gotch, runs some kind of online store or something, was driving down Sunset in her car, which she does not live in, when she saw a moment worthy of instagram.

Some followers were shocked, telling Jen to “offer compassion and empathy, not exploitation”, while others reacted with lols, saying “Are you sure that’s a lady? Haha”. Still others waved their banners of support, telling Jen they see the image as part of her “quest to find what it is to intentionally live your life with grace and gratitude”. Jen basically flipped dissenters the bird, telling them “your rush to judgment and public shaming of me is not welcome here” before posting a picture of a kitten because things “got extremely out of hand in that last post”.

Jen is clearly over the debate, saying it’s been “Such an interesting week. Thanks for all of the really really kind words and for the criticism, too. I don’t know most of you personally so I take both the good and bad with a grain of salt. I love salt.”

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CecilyK Did Her Part To Help The “Brown Boys”, Then Flounced

After smearing her ragefeels all over twitter and facebook for two days, social slacktivist Cecily Kellogg made sure to remind everyone yesterday to go out and participate in the local protest rally.

At the time of the rally, she flooded her instagram stream with pictures of her holding vigil candles, talking to the crowd, and holding her daughter’s hand while she explained why they were there. Oh wait, no she didn’t. She was too busy taking feminist Slurpee selfies at a green light.

After fielding questions about why she wasn’t at the rally she had promoted so vocally and being called out for instagramming while driving, Cecily decided she’d had enough of the internet judging her inactivism. She’s now flounced off her instagram account.

So much for taking responsibility for the “criticism loop”. Maybe she should have created a hashtag about it instead.

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Pink Peonies Can Inflate Her Follower Count

Rachel Parcell, the owner of more white decor than Zeus, is being accused of buying followers for her instagram account.

On Wednesday her follower count shot up to 191,000; by yesterday it was up to 197,000. At the time of this post it had increased to 199,585 and is still steadily increasing. A series of screenshots throughout last night shows the followers increasing rapidly. It seems they are showing up at a rate of about 30-40 an hour.

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Pink Peonies obviously isn’t the first or only blogger to purchase followers in order to seem more popular, and thus more appealing to major sponsors. It’s all part of the blogging land grab system, where numbers – real or fake – seem to matter more than content or engagement.

Since these follower buys always seem to happen right before a blogger gears up to pursue some kind of big publicity or sponsor I wouldn’t be surprised if we see ole Rachel in a television commercial or Vogue mention soon.

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Julia Allison Is Getting Married

Julia Allison, apparently not getting enough attention lately, has announced her impending wedding.

She says after “years of struggling to love myself and looking outside to my parents, the media and of course – men – for validation” she has discovered she will never be worthy of love until she comes to “love myself wholly”.

Please join me for this exuberant celebration & sacred ritual of self-love,
officiated by Priestess of Love Annie Lalla, with costumes, fire, dance, music & spoken word, as well as a special performance by the Bride herself.

Since I’m pretty sure the only person Julia Allison has ever truly loved is Julia Allison, I think this makes perfect sense. Best wishes to the bride! She finally gets to walk down the aisle with her best friend and soulmate.

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Carly Will Out Negative Commenters

The College Prepster, mature, has apparently found a charming tactic to deal with “negative” commenters – tracking them down and outing them on Facebook.

On August 5, stating that she would “normally brush off these comments because they clearly project insecurities the commenter has about his/herself”, the obviously self-assured Carly decided to track down one commenter who “continues to get under my skin”.

Apparently her lecture about being a positive role model on the internet – which apparently means not leaving negative comments on blogs – didn’t work, because yesterday she had to track down and shame yet another commenter.

Lapping up commenter responses telling her she was “too cool” and “taking the high road”, Carly then attempted to justify outing her blog readers by saying her intent was to “call attention to the public nature of the internet”.

It will be yet another nail in the coffin of blogging if this sort of thing catches on. As a rule, people don’t like being stalked down and having their identity put on blast just for leaving a comment on a website.

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Cupcakes And Cashmere Announces Her Own Bundle Of Pageviews

Emily Schuman, of the million dollar bungalow Schumans, has announced via a twee youtube video that she and husband Geoffrey will be adding a new little content generator to the house that bland built.

Assumed to be around three months along, Cuppy has apparently not yet broken the news on her blog or other social media. She did, however, post this video announcement to her youtube channel tonight.

Discussion will probably now begin over how she will incorporate little Cake Pop into her blog. I can’t wait to see what exciting new ways she can use the word ‘obsessed’!

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Hullosam Can Internet While Driving

Hullosam, safety first, loves summer. She loves driving with the windows open, dancing and singing to music. How do we know this? Hullosam records it for the internet.

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Yes, Hullosam enjoys taking selfies while driving – or we should say she’ll enjoy it until her car flies into a ravine and goes up in an A-Team style fireball mid-upload – to share with the interwebs. And it’s not just still selfies; Hullosam also seems to make a habit of filming videos while she drives.

Nothing says “safety” like filming yourself duckface dancing behind the wheel. The only thing that would be more safety aware is filming the road while you drive for no discernible purpose.

Since Cecily Kellogg recently posted (and quickly deleted) a driving selfie of her own, I have to wonder if this is going to be a new acceptable behavior for social media morons. You’d think the fact that it’s illegal in most places and a frequent cause of driving fatalities would make these attention whores rethink this sort of thing, but I suppose the ego monster must be fed no matter what.