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Deadpoolrocks Since: Sep, 2010
#7126: Dec 8th 2017 at 10:07:10 PM

oh wow I was wondering why the last few days have been mostly photoplasties and ads for things with one article. rip in peace cracked. you went to crap at the end but you still had life sometimes.

thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#7127: Dec 9th 2017 at 12:44:52 AM

Even the articles have adds.

The movie articles now have links to buy them on Amazon.

Buzzinator Monkey See, DIC Do Since: Feb, 2014
Monkey See, DIC Do
#7128: Dec 9th 2017 at 11:54:31 AM

EW Scripps (which owns Cracked now) did the layoffs to cut costs. But I feel like they could have promoted the site more to make money.

"You can run, but you can't hide from the Buzzinator!"
TommyR01D Since: Feb, 2015
#7129: Dec 10th 2017 at 3:48:52 PM

Haven't readers been predicting this for years? There have been similar stories about Marvel Comics.

vicarious vicarious from NC, USA Since: Feb, 2013
vicarious
#7130: Dec 10th 2017 at 8:48:31 PM

So is Brockway and Bucholz gone?

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#7131: Dec 10th 2017 at 8:56:04 PM

Brockway's only made 2 Article this year, last one's in May, so I think he left a while back

Bucholz is still at Cracked.

vicarious vicarious from NC, USA Since: Feb, 2013
vicarious
#7132: Dec 10th 2017 at 8:58:57 PM

I think those two have books out.

I remember Brockway being super cool and nice when I had a question for him and best of luck to Bucholz

I don't really know the current line up right now, I dropped Cracked because they didn't update their app to new versions of iOS; it just stopped working

TommyR01D Since: Feb, 2015
#7133: Dec 11th 2017 at 12:27:58 AM

When researching the event I found this video [1].
It sure is Harsher in Hindsight!

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#7134: Dec 29th 2017 at 8:50:23 AM

Man, if it weren't for the fact they published an article promoting Sex Tourism with underage girls, them losing almost all the staff I like would be my new DMOS.

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Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#7136: Dec 29th 2017 at 9:17:28 AM

Yeah... it was one of the life experience articles, presumably written by a teenage Vietnamese prostitute herself, who basically went "I'm okay and I like this job".

Whoever edited that article clearly sided with her.

I don't remember the title so I can't find you the link, unfortunately.

Edit: Said "Thai" before. My apologies.

edited 29th Dec '17 9:58:04 AM by Luminosity

Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
Absolutely no relation to NLK
#7138: Dec 29th 2017 at 2:40:27 PM

Yeah that one was... questionable.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#7139: Dec 29th 2017 at 6:25:01 PM

Even giving them every benefit of the doubt (that they're just reporting what they've been told and what they've been told is 100% true) it's a seriously irresponsible article for painting a ridiculously positive picture of a most definitely not entirely positive situation. Even if the statements are entirely true for this example (which again, is seriously dubious), treating them as the norm (which the article blatantly does, with headers which are mostly blanket statements and not specific to this one woman) and sorta glossing over the whole "Southeast Area has a genuine sex trade problem" is... worrisome.

... not to mention the whole "police corruption is a good thing!" angle. Sure. police are willing to protect prostitutes. So long as they're paying off the police more than the people they're getting protection from. The article mentions a the police helping her deport a 16 year old foreign kid that pulled a knife on her. That's peachy. Talk to me when it's a wealthy 40 year old guy. The police in Vietnam are notoriously corrupt. They'll follow whoever pays them.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#7140: Dec 30th 2017 at 7:08:06 AM

What is most baffling to me is that there are perfectly good countries with legal prostitution from which you could have this kind of article no problem. Instead we got fucking Vietnam, the holiday destination of every creepy fucknut who wants to abuse and fuck 15-year-olds.

FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#7141: Dec 31st 2017 at 9:22:59 PM

Honestly, prostitution in general seems to, in general, be explained by either "Well, it's better than nothing" or "It's a valid choice for sex-positive women". Past that, it's basically a toss-up of "when are people physically eligible to have sex", "when are people mentally eligible to have sex", or "when are people socially eligible to have sex" contrasted against "when is it exploitative for them to have sex when they might not have other choices".

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#7142: Jan 1st 2018 at 5:22:12 AM

Of course, male prostitutes are always conveniently exempt whenver someone wants to push a "prostitution and sex industriy in general is always evil and misogynistic no matter how legal, regulated, and above-board it is" narrative. There's a bit of irony in some people claiming they want to fight sexism while presenting these women as always helpless abused victims in need of saving regardless of the actual situation.

thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#7143: Jan 1st 2018 at 11:25:49 AM

This is frankly a good example of Cracked ideological biases fucking up the site. They’re position on sex work is that it should be legal and regulated , then everything g”ll be peachy keen. So when someone tells them that in their country it, while not ecxact,y legal is functionally risk free because the cops protect them and they’re not judged for it they buy it hook line and stinker because it lines up with what they already want to push.

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#7144: Jan 1st 2018 at 11:42:21 AM

It's not "ideological biases". It's failure of basic research. Wanting prostitution to be legal and regulated has nothing to do with randomly praising a country where it's neither of those things.

And people who want it legal and regulated still don't want freaking 15-year-olds to participate in it.

thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#7145: Jan 1st 2018 at 11:54:44 AM

I mean they’re biased, that’s why they didn’t do the proper research.

Wispy Since: Feb, 2017
#7146: Jan 1st 2018 at 1:51:44 PM

[up][up]It being legal and regulated would atleast help the possibility of a 15 year old being put into that job.

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#7147: Jan 3rd 2018 at 1:57:38 PM

I think another weird thing about the comments is the people claiming Values Dissonance and that it's fine there, and people ascribing Western Values (tm) to Vietnam are unreasonable. Except really, people that believe that dissonance exists seem to have some underlying racism going if they're willing to go "huh, underage prostitution? Sure, that sounds like something that's accepted there."

Anyhoo, much as I hate to derail from the "underage prostitution is bad, goddammit" train, Cody Johnston mentions in a tweet he'd like to continue Some News if someone wants to, you know, pay him for it.

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thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#7148: Jan 17th 2018 at 9:38:20 AM

http://www.cracked.com/blog/be-warned-your-own-trump-coming/

Ever since the election Pardign has done a real.. well not 180but at least a 60 degree turn.

http://www.cracked.com/article_25343_5-movies-that-preach-grand-messages-they-totally-ignore.html

And in more typical fare, a not very well argued article about movies being dumb.

edited 17th Jan '18 9:39:18 AM by thatindiantroper

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#7149: Jan 17th 2018 at 11:09:48 PM

[up] Who is Pardign?

The David Wong article is pretty interesting itself.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#7150: Jan 18th 2018 at 4:53:21 AM

[up]It is pretty much Godwin's Law: The Article

Not much besides, Wong screaming beware of lefty Hitler! and using some rather sketchy arguments.

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