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(The Cut)   "Babe.net had always partied, had always had drama. This was just what happened when 28-year-olds managed 24-year-olds who managed 20-year-olds, right?"   (thecut.com) divider line
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sirrerun  
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2019-06-24 6:51:18 PM  
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"That'll Do."
 
abhorrent1  
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2019-06-24 10:18:06 PM  
TL;DR

/also don't care
 
The Lurker at Your Threshold  
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2019-06-24 10:19:29 PM  
I don't know what this is, and I wish to continue.
 
The Lurker at Your Threshold  
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2019-06-24 10:21:50 PM  
In the spring of 2018, I visited the offices of the millennial/Gen-Z-oriented website babe.net, a sunny loft space in Williamsburg, just around the corner from Vice. Babe.net - now shuttered - was then at the frothy peak of its existence. I made sure to wear my coolest pants.

The site's managing editor, Eleni Mitzali, a 24-year-old blonde with a sharp bob and half-a-dozen tiny earrings who told me she only listened to podcasts about business strategy and murder, offered me a doughnut while I waited for the day to start.

Yup, I was right. I don't want to know anymore, and now actively want to kill all involved (including myself).
 
olrasputin  
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2019-06-24 10:22:05 PM  
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DOCTORD000M  
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2019-06-24 10:24:58 PM  
What dot what?
 
The Lurker at Your Threshold  
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2019-06-24 10:27:00 PM  

DOCTORD000M: What dot what?


nothanks.nope
 
JerkStore  
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2019-06-24 10:27:17 PM  
Who the fark has the fortitude to read that whole dreadful thing? I to the part about the leader of Babe.net whinging that she was about to "age out of the demographic."

Can anyone beat that?
 
dyhchong  
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2019-06-24 10:29:43 PM  
That was lame, this was the first and hopefully the last time I've ever heard of that website.

Hope this helps.
 
darth_badger  
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2019-06-24 10:30:21 PM  
Even I find it difficult to wank to babe.net.
 
Tryfan  
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2019-06-24 10:31:22 PM  
I skimmed it. Does that count? It didn't get better, never got out of "who cares? Not just who cares, but why would ANYONE care about this?" territory.

This is what happens when websites think that what happens to other websites is actually worth talking about because they themselves don't have anything better to say either. It's cannibalistic. All of these people, the original website and anyone who decided what happened there was important enough to write a story about, are living in a fake world with zero perspective on anything.
 
The Lurker at Your Threshold  
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2019-06-24 10:33:36 PM  

darth_badger: Even I find it difficult to wank to babe.net.


But not impossible?
 
Naido [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-24 10:36:08 PM  
Please, someone tell me that there are at least a few people in their 20s who don't tell their own story in the passive voice, as if they have no agency.   I think, I hope, there are lots of them, but they sure are under-represented in the media.

/adjusts onion
 
Doomsday_SC  
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2019-06-24 10:36:45 PM  
Now that I've read the thread, I'm relieved to know that I'm not the only one wondering just what the farkni was reading and why another human decided to write it.

Thanks Fark. You're like a support group I wouldn't need if I didn't go to Fark.
 
Begoggle  
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2019-06-24 10:39:24 PM  
TLDR; A bunch of kids managed to scam Rupert Murdoch (and other investors) out of a bunch of money, to sit around and get drunk and write dumb stories.
 
spottymax  
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2019-06-24 10:40:56 PM  
" This piece has been updated throughout for clarity."

Still didn't help.
 
Boo_Guy  
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2019-06-24 10:42:18 PM  
"A babe.net writer asked Jonathan Cheban, a.k.a. "the FoodGod," what Kim Kardashian's butthole tasted like.."

Kanye's dick?
 
mcmnky  
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2019-06-24 10:42:43 PM  
"Babe launched in 2016 as a vertical of Tab Media"

WTF does that mean?
 
bglove25  
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2019-06-24 10:44:04 PM  

Tryfan: I skimmed it. Does that count? It didn't get better, never got out of "who cares? Not just who cares, but why would ANYONE care about this?" territory.

This is what happens when websites think that what happens to other websites is actually worth talking about because they themselves don't have anything better to say either. It's cannibalistic. All of these people, the original website and anyone who decided what happened there was important enough to write a story about, are living in a fake world with zero perspective on anything.


Which is, ironically, why they bothered to publish the Aziz Ansari story in the first place. It's the circle of life.....
 
eclecticman666  
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2019-06-24 10:44:43 PM  

JerkStore: Who the fark has the fortitude to read that whole dreadful thing? I to the part about the leader of Babe.net whinging that she was about to "age out of the demographic."

Can anyone beat that?


I think so, but I'm not sure...
Kinda in a stupor right now.
 
batrachoseps  
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2019-06-24 10:49:45 PM  

abhorrent1: TL;DR

/also don't care


Came here to say this.
 
Random Anonymous Blackmail  
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2019-06-24 10:50:11 PM  
I was expecting a babe.net to be a hook-up or amateur porn site.
I wonder if the domain name is for sale
 
Action Replay Nick  
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2019-06-24 10:50:42 PM  

mcmnky: "Babe launched in 2016 as a vertical of Tab Media"

WTF does that mean?


It means a flaming turd sandwich of a clickbait-mill started to go down the dumps, but one of its 20-something offshoot subdomains that preys on naive children to provide "crowdsourced" content for free started getting more clicks, so all the focus moved there and someone finally shelled out for the babe.net domain.
 
Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste  
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2019-06-24 10:51:11 PM  

Begoggle: TLDR; A bunch of kids managed to scam Rupert Murdoch (and other investors) out of a bunch of money, to sit around and get drunk and write dumb stories.


It wasn't a bunch of kids that scammed Murdoch. It was a sloppy British white guy at 19, proving, for the zillionth time, that white mediocrities get ahead on bullshiat everlasting. This Rivkin guy, whatever his name was, founded the site to get he and his buddies laid. The actual staff were young women, often misguided or whatever, who were trying to do something but had no editorial guidance whatsoever. At the base of this was a bunch of slick whiteboi slobs, like always.
 
ThirstyCraig  
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2019-06-24 10:51:57 PM  

mcmnky: Tab Media


A fancy way of saying a trade publication for Tab Media (which is a company that does online content for the trendy/rich college student up to mid 20's crowd).
 
Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste  
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2019-06-24 10:51:58 PM  

Random Anonymous Blackmail: I was expecting a babe.net to be a hook-up or amateur porn site.
I wonder if the domain name is for sale


The article literally answers your question at the end.
 
Igor Jakovsky  
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2019-06-24 10:54:32 PM  

Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: Random Anonymous Blackmail: I was expecting a babe.net to be a hook-up or amateur porn site.
I wonder if the domain name is for sale

The article literally answers your question at the end.


So you were the one farker that read that whole thing?
 
Outlawtsar  
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2019-06-24 10:57:08 PM  
Good news everyone, I read the article in its entirety.

I did this mostly because I wanted to know why people were using their real names and pictures until I realized this is some kind of ad/begging for work effort by a bunch of unemployed millenials and I have to interview something like 100 people just like them them for several dozen positions very soon.

Basically the story is that a business based on a 2009 squatted site (babe.net) was built by a clickbait aggregator (The Tab) to get clicks from the 18-24 female demographic, and the employees kinda did achieve that goal when they weren't getting drunk and/or banging each other, until they did a piece on Aziz Ansari that epitomized the line between a bad date and nonconsentual behavior and then they got their 15 minutes of fame. Then the universe realized it wasn't a business, it was basically a bunch of college kids with no plan or even an HR department and the money dried up.  The end.
 
spanarkelspinner  
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2019-06-24 10:57:25 PM  
It was a wannabe TMZ for millennial twerps.
 
Salmon  
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2019-06-24 10:57:40 PM  

Igor Jakovsky: Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: Random Anonymous Blackmail: I was expecting a babe.net to be a hook-up or amateur porn site.
I wonder if the domain name is for sale

The article literally answers your question at the end.

So you were the one farker that read that whole thing?


now I have to go read the last paragraph.
 
Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste  
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2019-06-24 10:57:53 PM  

Igor Jakovsky: Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: Random Anonymous Blackmail: I was expecting a babe.net to be a hook-up or amateur porn site.
I wonder if the domain name is for sale

The article literally answers your question at the end.

So you were the one farker that read that whole thing?


Yeah, considering the whole Aziz Ansari thing was a pretty big moment culturally these last couple of years.
 
BolloxReader [OhFark]  
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2019-06-24 10:59:06 PM  
So this was basically the story of a website that pushed #metoo too far. A website that was supposedly for young women but was really the living fantasy of the 2-3 guys who directed the women and pushed them, ultimately, into projects that were too nihilistic even for "girls who don't give a fark."

Really this whome article was worthless. Rebellion for the sake of rebellion basically just gets you manipulated by others. Too bad the writer didn't have the guts to actually point it out.
 
Random Anonymous Blackmail  
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2019-06-24 11:00:24 PM  

Igor Jakovsky: Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: Random Anonymous Blackmail: I was expecting a babe.net to be a hook-up or amateur porn site.
I wonder if the domain name is for sale

The article literally answers your question at the end.

So you were the one farker that read that whole thing?


Or anyone, I got 3 paragraphs in and wanted to stick a fork in my throat.
 
Lochsteppe  
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2019-06-24 11:04:07 PM  

Outlawtsar: Good news everyone, I read the article in its entirety.

I did this mostly because I wanted to know why people were using their real names and pictures until I realized this is some kind of ad/begging for work effort by a bunch of unemployed millenials and I have to interview something like 100 people just like them them for several dozen positions very soon.

Basically the story is that a business based on a 2009 squatted site (babe.net) was built by a clickbait aggregator (The Tab) to get clicks from the 18-24 female demographic, and the employees kinda did achieve that goal when they weren't getting drunk and/or banging each other, until they did a piece on Aziz Ansari that epitomized the line between a bad date and nonconsentual behavior and then they got their 15 minutes of fame. Then the universe realized it wasn't a business, it was basically a bunch of college kids with no plan or even an HR department and the money dried up.  The end.


Right? It's kind of like watching a miniature dot-com bubble, but with more women.
 
veale728  
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2019-06-24 11:04:53 PM  

Random Anonymous Blackmail: Igor Jakovsky: Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: Random Anonymous Blackmail: I was expecting a babe.net to be a hook-up or amateur porn site.
I wonder if the domain name is for sale

The article literally answers your question at the end.

So you were the one farker that read that whole thing?

Or anyone, I got 3 paragraphs in and wanted to stick a fork in my throat.


No, you need to stick the fork in your eye. Preferably two forks, one for each eye.

If you stick the fork in your throat, you'll still see that article while you bleed out.
 
tjfly  
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2019-06-24 11:04:54 PM  

Doomsday_SC: Now that I've read the thread, I'm relieved to know that I'm not the only one wondering just what the farkni was reading and why another human decided to write it.

Thanks Fark. You're like a support group I wouldn't need if I didn't go to Fark.


Me too. Only got half way through the article...
 
harlock  
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2019-06-24 11:09:21 PM  
I read the whole thing.  Sounds like your basic d-bag startup scammers taking advantage of not only the investors but of their young and often unpaid staffers, not only monetarily but sexually as well.


Move fast and break things my ass.  Howabout being a little bit responsible.
 
Birnone  
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2019-06-24 11:09:44 PM  

Outlawtsar: Good news everyone, I read the article in its entirety.

I did this mostly because I wanted to know why people were using their real names and pictures until I realized this is some kind of ad/begging for work effort by a bunch of unemployed millenials and I have to interview something like 100 people just like them them for several dozen positions very soon.

Basically the story is that a business based on a 2009 squatted site (babe.net) was built by a clickbait aggregator (The Tab) to get clicks from the 18-24 female demographic, and the employees kinda did achieve that goal when they weren't getting drunk and/or banging each other, until they did a piece on Aziz Ansari that epitomized the line between a bad date and nonconsentual behavior and then they got their 15 minutes of fame. Then the universe realized it wasn't a business, it was basically a bunch of college kids with no plan or even an HR department and the money dried up.  The end.


I read it as a group of young people working together in a business run by other young people and everyone is so happy that they found a place where they belong. Then reality set in, the ones lower in the food chain saw that the ones higher on the food chain didn't care about them...even though they all party together! So they complained, got ignored, and quit. All this time the business wasn't making money anyways but it was dependent on attracting investors. Once they could no longer pull in enough investment money the whole thing crashed.

The sex, involvement of the internet, and #metoo stuff was incidental. A business run like that would have the same problems even if all they did was install carpet.
 
inglixthemad  
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2019-06-24 11:21:12 PM  

abhorrent1: TL;DR

/also don't care


I'm going to guess: Young people being too stupid to realize and not being professional enough to realize that work is where you earn a paycheck not a f##kbuddy. Then they proceed to make stupid decisions worse by continuing stupid behavior until the whole thing blows up like a college romance fueled by alcohol induced stupidity.
 
robodog  
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2019-06-24 11:21:43 PM  

JerkStore: Who the fark has the fortitude to read that whole dreadful thing? I to the part about the leader of Babe.net whinging that she was about to "age out of the demographic."

Can anyone beat that?


Yeah, got to the part where their star reporter quite after almost farking one of the founders at a party, couldn't take any more.
 
poot_rootbeer  
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2019-06-25 12:12:24 AM  
Let's point and laugh, says the community on a site which originally hosted one picture of a squirrel with an enlarged scrotum
 
Boudyro  
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2019-06-25 12:32:39 AM  
The TLDR is 20 somethings learn hard way: Don't shiat where you eat.

Also Facebook sucks.
 
frostus  
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2019-06-25 12:52:46 AM  

poot_rootbeer: Let's point and laugh, says the community on a site which originally hosted one picture of a squirrel with an enlarged scrotum


And we all know that site didn't work out either, and thus faded into obscurity.
 
abhorrent1  
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2019-06-25 12:55:08 AM  

poot_rootbeer: Let's point and laugh, says the community on a site which originally hosted one picture of a squirrel with an enlarged scrotum


Right? It takes some pretty big balls to do something like that.
 
kendelrio  
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2019-06-25 12:58:26 AM  

abhorrent1: poot_rootbeer: Let's point and laugh, says the community on a site which originally hosted one picture of a squirrel with an enlarged scrotum

Right? It takes some pretty big balls to do something like that.


Yeah... but all it takes is ONE slatted chair seat to bring the entire thing to a screeching halt...
 
jmsvrsn  
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2019-06-25 1:02:35 AM  

mcmnky: "Babe launched in 2016 as a vertical of Tab Media"

WTF does that mean?


It means that you aged out of the demographic a long time ago.
 
CalebWilliamson  
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2019-06-25 1:29:18 AM  

DOCTORD000M: What dot what?


GawkerTheNextGeneration.com
 
The Third Man [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-25 2:19:50 AM  
Babe launched in 2016 as a vertical of Tab Media, the brainchild of a 29-year-old British journalist named Jack Rivlin. He'd started the site in 2009 while still a 19-year-old student at Cambridge.

Further proof here that Tabs Ruin Everything.
 
wingedkat [TotalFark]  
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2019-06-25 2:30:13 AM  

Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: Igor Jakovsky: Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: Random Anonymous Blackmail: I was expecting a babe.net to be a hook-up or amateur porn site.
I wonder if the domain name is for sale

The article literally answers your question at the end.

So you were the one farker that read that whole thing?

Yeah, considering the whole Aziz Ansari thing was a pretty big moment culturally these last couple of years.


It was.  It even led to some useful discussion about communication and consent.  The story was a mess and horribly handled, but it added something useful to the #metoo movement.

Still, I'm not at all surprised about what happened to the site.

/yep, read the whole thing too.
 
dyhchong  
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2019-06-25 2:46:58 AM  

poot_rootbeer: Let's point and laugh, says the community on a site which originally hosted one picture of a squirrel with an enlarged scrotum


You don't argue with results.
 
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