I'm guessing DailyFail is back paying fark for greenlights?

farkeruk: her original fanbase is old enough to want to hear someone singing for their money.

Her original fanbase were kids who are now starting to have families of their own and probably don't have the time or money to waste on nostalgia acts.

farkeruk: It's kinda sad. At one time we had manufactured groups, but they at least had to be able to sing. Take That are packing out the venues in the UK because they can perform live.

mourning the decline in quality of manufactured popstars is a very sad thing.


I would actually prefer if we treated the popstars like the manufactured bullshiat that they are rather than acting like they're some kind of genuine article (i.e. Lady Gaga). As annoying as it was when people were fawning over something they knew they wouldn't give a shiat about in a year, it's even more obnoxious when people bend over backward trying to explain why some other pop starlet has genuine credentials even if they're performing the same bullshiat.

I believe that, for whatever reasons, Fark just loves consuming what the Mail pushes.

I guess thats possible, but 4-5 greens a day, like today? Seems a little more than random.

Looks like The Gunt is fronting for her now.

Generation_D: I guess thats possible, but 4-5 greens a day, like today? Seems a little more than random.

It's not random, it's for three main reasons:

1) DM churns out a shiat-ton of random bizarre news. I'm pretty sure they don't fact-check anything
2) They tend to get the weirdest stuff out first, since they're in the UK and are hours ahead of US stuff, giving them traction before US organizations publish
3) A lot of submitters choose DM for whatever reason. We have a higher percentage submitted to us, probably because of reasons 1 and 2

Alright, tinfoil back down to "loose." But it still just turns fark mainpage into DailyFail link page, which is of minimal value to anyone not interested in just linking to DailyFail.

Generation_D: Alright, tinfoil back down to "loose." But it still just turns fark mainpage into DailyFail link page, which is of minimal value to anyone not interested in just linking to DailyFail.

FWIW, whenever I'm running the queue I avoid DM stuff unless it's the best headline. Too much of it is meh, at least for me. But we're inundated with it. If we get the same weird stuff from other sources, I'll take that stuff all day long. I think DM also gets a lot of Google News ranking bump because they're often first with a lot of stuff, even if its news value is essentially zero.

TrainingWheelsNeeded: "before and after"

Even so, I'm all in. Twice on Sunday even.

Dancin_In_Anson: TrainingWheelsNeeded: "before and after"

Even so, I'm all in. Twice on Sunday even.

That's what I like about you. Totally unpretentious.

Sure, I've seen better at the local Wal*mart. Sure, she looks like a mother of 2 barely holding it together against a veritable firestorm of salsa flavored Doritos (because she is).

But would I spend an entire weekend trying and failing to not disappoint her? Hells yeah I would, and I'm not ashamed to say it.

gilgigamesh: But would I spend an entire weekend trying and failing to not disappoint her?

Best 10 seconds of the day man!