C’mon, Who Reads G-Scene?
I have been fascinated by this cluster-fuck of a website ever since I first heard of it. However, I refuse to post a link to it for fear that more people will accidentally set their gaze upon that car wreck. The following formula is my understanding of the website:
(Thurston + Redbull + Vodka + Daddy Issues + Japone + Digital Photography + Shoddy CSS Design)^ ROFLCaptions = GScene
Am I missing anything?
Who reads this thing? Who scrolls through the pictures of drunk freshmen and is entertained? Who is thankful for the fact that they get paid to advertise for stupid shit? GScene’s existance baffles me.
Courageous readers of The Colonialist, I need the following questions answered:
- Why is GScene?
- Who reads GScene?
- Why?
- Is it a social experiment?
- Why do they always wish Happy Birthday to people I don’t know?
- How many Zimas do the writers drink every Thursday?
If you can provide answers to one or all of these, you are a white light at the end of this dark, dark tunnel called GW.
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It might be the worst Website ever.
It embarrasses me that prospective students might stumble across that website and actually think that is what GW kids are like.
wait… but isn’t it exactly what gw kids are like?
but, my backside is featured on the spring fashion section. just throwin it out there. i only stumbled upon it after reading this article then googling gscene. hahha ewwww
I don’t know who reads it. It seems geared towards Greeks. And I never know anyone they’re talking about! It’s embarrassing, it’s like they think they’re celebs.
I think it’s pretty clear who it is catered to, and it is DEFINITELY not the Greek community.
If you’re curious as to what I am talking about, you obviously never watched Alejandro Mongalo’s “Glamour and Dirt” on GWTV a couple years ago.
I know no one is talking shit about glamour and dirt. Nor the people to whom the show was geared. Wise up.
I think that G-Scene is a massive joke–sort of like The Colbert Report, only one level higher in complexity. Instead of mocking the GW club culture, it’s mocking the people that mock the GW club culture (or, to put a finer point on this, it’s intentionally designed to illicite the criticism of others for the entertainment of those who actually are part of the “G-Scene”).
How else could you explain a post THIS ridiculous: http://gwscene.com/uncategorized/427/
The guys that help right it lived on my floor last year and believe me, its no joke. This is completely serious to them…….yeah.
Hah, it wishes it was as good as Gossip Girl.
Ironically I learned about this 5 minutes ago when my roommate was reading it and I was like “G-scene, what’s that?” and then I checked the colonialist for today and saw G-Scene
It looks pretty terrible to me
This site is funny, not vulgar, and somewhat witty considering 20 year olds are behind this. We are just highlighting the lives of the kids at this school. Everyone who looks at this loves to gossip and loves to start beef. Is anyone really offended?
All you girls can’t put down the gossip magazines…people, us weekly, OK…the list goes on. If your picture is not on the site…you are wishing it would be…and if your picture is up on the site…you’re wishing you would have smiled better…or worn more clothes. This site is just a comic strip of the life at GW…if you can’t laugh at that..then you have no sense of humor. Everyone can talk all they want but at the end of the day this site makes celebrities out of kids who think they’re already celebrities. This site is immature, at best, but you know what…you check this site once a day, at least. So Colonialist.com, who are you kidding?
I love how the colonialist can write this bs. WHo the hell reads the colonialist? What is the colonialist? At least we are getting paid? haha what a joke this guy is? HOw many hits do you have? 2,000 a day? oh wait that’s us.
This message is one part disclaimer, one part humor, one part satire, and one part social commentary, and one part fuck you.
Enjoy!
- G Scene
By the way…you can look at GW-Scene mock the colonialist at http://www.gwscene.com
GW is Gw-Scene. And all of your posts, including the original article, proves it.
“All you girls can’t put down the gossip magazines…people, us weekly, OK…the list goes on. If your picture is not on the site…you are wishing it would be…and if your picture is up on the site…you’re wishing you would have smiled better…or worn more clothes.”
I <3 Misogyny
Dear G-Scene,
It’s really hard to sift through your hypocrisy and absurdity.
Trying hard though,
Darren
To be honest, I’m just really honored to be mentioned on such a prestigious web site. I feel like a celebrity!
[...] G-Scene responds to our post with a grammatical explosion! (their website even calls us “soooo gay.”) [The Colonialist] [...]
I seriously had not heard of G-Scene until you guys satirized… That being said, what a bunch of fairies. If 2000 people visit G-Scene a day, I’m leaving this school.
stop the hate. since when do entrepreneurs and creative minds receive such harsh criticism. it’s not like they are writing anything hateful and if you don’t like it, don’t look at it. as almost 30,000 hits proves, there must be something your all missing.
why stifle the creativity? why not help foster it, any publicity is good publicity and as they said, you wasted your time enough to put up an article on your sub-par site, must have been a reason?
gwscene.com rules you. stop the hate.
Couldn’t have said it better. Hey justin if you’re looking for some extra cash, come and write for us. gwscene@gmail.com
Can’t argue with that. I checked and G-Scene does in fact rule me. Why stifle the creativity? Why not help foster it? At least they’re getting paid? Why write in coherent sentences or use question marks appropriately?
Okay, justin. Here goes:
“stop the hate.”
Agreed.
“since when do entrepreneurs and creative minds receive such harsh criticism.”
Well, if we’re talking world-historically, I would say… since the first.
“it’s not like they are writing anything hateful”
Are you serious, justin? Come on, now! “All you girls can’t put down the gossip magazines…” (and the rest of that whole fucking paragraph) is — as Pat already said — misogynistic (that means “expresses hatred toward women”).
“and if you don’t like it, don’t look at it.”
That’s the lamest, most halfhearted defense. I smell a good deal of self-loathing in that statement.
“as almost 30,000 hits proves, there must be something your all missing.”
God, this sentence-thing is disgusting to look at.
Do you really think 30,000 “hits” is an accomplishment? Come on now, justin.
You think The Colonialist is doing all this typing for nobody?
Don’t be silly.
(A brief note on the style:
The comment sort of turns on the above sentence. It moves from a defense of G-Scene via rhetorical state-questions to an attack(?) of us by putting question marks in. It’s really a marvelous piece of argumentation.)
“why stifle the creativity?”
I can’t think of any reason why I would. If it’s there, point it out.
I mean, there’s obviously work being put in to throw so many sweaty parties, but where’s the creativity?
I see: some alcohol; some heating systems; some too-small, too-dark rooms; some cell phone cameras; some techie dude (to implement an absolutely horrible page navigation bar); some cigarettes; some hair gel; some broken heels; some angry text messages; some attempt to create a sort of social bloc; some hungry souls; plea for absolution; some really lame corporate tie ins (that Student Vault Box 4Ya Data & Terrell Owens post is almost absurd enough to be funny, but it’s not); some not much at all.
Creativity? Justin! You’re being silly again.
“why not help foster it, any publicity is good publicity”
I’m not sure if here you’re telling me what just happened or asking a question or asking a question and then making a statement or… something else?
Anyway, I won’t help foster it because I don’t see anything extant.
It looks like a bunch of sad dudes who think that making a couple hundred bucks a month (even 9,000 hits a day won’t make THAT much money, fellas) off their own miscreations somehow makes it all okay (what one is worth doesn’t determine whether or not one is worth much at all).
“and as they said”
I’m assuming you mean either: the unnamed G-Scene commenter here OR Jack Johnson
“you wasted your time enough to put up an article”
Wasted my time enough? What does this mean?
“on your sub-par site”
:(! Justin!
Stop the hate!!!
“must have been a reason?”
The reason manifests itself in front of our eyes.
Doesn’t it, Justin?
Isn’t it right there in front of our collective four peepers?
“[G-Scene] rules you. stop the hate.”
I leave that conjunction of sentence-things un-critiqued.
yah kurt…we’re the loosers who have nothing better to do. you keep telling yourself that. And I still don’t understand what the hell the colonialist is? is it student run? what’s the point, gw is not that cool just to have a blog of random shit that’s going on. I dont see any ads, it’s clearly not a business.
Call us what you want, but at it’s a job in the sense that we earn revenue.
ANd we say what we say becasue we can laugh at all of you sheep and make fun of you’re robotic lives. Do you have nothing better to do than comment on people who satirize thier school environment. We purposefully encourage your type of response. It’s amusing to see you toss and turn in your bubble. We shake up a bit of culture and watch how hard you freak out. jokes on you guys who leave these pathetic posts. and guess what? this bullshit i’m writing will only get you sheep to write more halarious comments that pour fuel on the fire and encourage GW scenes ridiculous behavior. You perpetuate your own mess.
Why do you take yourselves so seriously on some excuse of a blog.
listen you wierdos pretend like you’re intelligent and read something while you’re in uni: Jonathan swift’s A Modest Proposal
Gw Scene has gotten underneath your fingernails and with every post you write it gets deeper and deeper. enjoy getting it out.
I’m not quite sure you are capable of understanding or appreciating Jonathan Swift’s genius. Why do I feel this way? You have the prose of a 10 year old girl and a greater false sense of superiority than anyone I’ve ever met associated with any GW media.
That being said, take your own advice and STAY OFF OUR SITES if you don’t like what we are writing. You have every right to weasel money out of a shitty website, and I have a right to publish posts pointing out just what a waste your site is. Frankly, I hope you are making some sort of money in the whole ordeal, cause otherwise I would doubt not only your intellligence (which, as I’ve already pointed out, is quite suspect) but your sanity and self-respect as well.
I will now surely be spending my time obsessing about how much better your website is than The Colonialist or The GW Patriot. I will lose sleep trying to figure out a way to emulate your brilliance. I wish I was you. You are awesome.
No, guys.
Stop this whole thing.
They’re right.
G-Scene is right.
We are wrong.
I finally realized it.
Swift helped me realize it.
All of these stupid posts just go to show you how large of a presence GWScene has on our campus and how all of you are jealous little bitches hating on the “celebs” on the site because they actually know how to go out and have a good time, instead of pondering for days on end about how to belittle GWScene or what kind of idiotic fights you bloggers should start with these guys because you have nothing better to do with your mundane, boring lives.. you colonialist bloggers need to wake up and smell the coffee… GWScene has obviously just jizzed all over you guys and you’re stubborn to admit it, but they’re right and you’re wrong. Come up with a better argument next time you want to criticize someone’s brilliant idea instead of being the nerds you are behind your little computer with the YouPorn tab you keep minimized on your laptop while at Gelman…
G-Scene,
You’re just a big goofball! My name’s not Kurt!
Kurt is:
The deceased lead singer of Nirvana.
An MTV VJ from the nineties.
A really talented author who died recently.
A major league baseball pitcher.
There’s an About Us in the right column of the main page, but here’s some information:
“And I still don’t understand what the hell the colonialist is?”
We’re a blog.
“is it student run?”
Yes
“what’s the point, gw is not that cool just to have a blog of random shit that’s going on.”
I agree. Luckily, we don’t limit ourselves to recaps of/advertisements for random shit (for an example of a blog about random shit happening on GW’s decidedly uncool campus, see G-Scene)
“I dont see any ads, it’s clearly not a business.”
I agree.
I think you’ve seriously misunderstood satire.
If you’re as dedicated [to achieving some potential satire with your photostream blog] as the task would require you to be, you’re no longer in satire territory.
“Call us what you want, but at it’s a job in the sense that we earn revenue.”
I’ll call it a job. At least it’s money, right? Right?
David,
I don’t understand the connection between G-Scene and mention of Gelman.
Could you elaborate?
Also, how could “they” — I’m assuming you mean G-Scene, but I’m never really sure with y’all new commenters because y’all’s demonstrative adjectives are all confusing and such and such — be right? How could we be wrong?
Where was the competition? What are the grounds for victory?
I mean, G-Scene was [potentially technically] right when he [rhetorically?] asked if we were student run, but were we wrong because we are?
Also, the amount of masturbation imagery in your comment is pretty amazing.
I disagree with Patrick Ford: stay on our sites if you want. I don’t mind you here.
With that in mind…I’m beginning to empathize with y’all.
It’s making me sad.
Oh, I forgot: You’re welcome.
Hopefully you got some hits from this. I hear cash registers’ bells!
Kirk or kurt which ever one you prefer, in all honesty, you have a talent for writing. We at GW-Scene find you to be very witty, to say the least. Your last post was an instant classic. no joke. if you’re looking to make some real cash off your writing, email us at gwscene@gmail.com
I want a fight between these idiots and the BrightestYoungThings kids. Greasy frat boys vs. greasy hipsters.
http://tommyisaweirdo.blogspot.com/2008/03/gw-scene-really.html
I posted a blog entry on G-Scene a while ago, and it was a little more harsh on them than you. I can’t wait for them to blow open my blog too. That is what they get paid for right?
http://www.thedirty.com/?p=19004#comments
Why did you guys ignore this when I submitted it as news for GWScene? I expected a lot more from you ambitious young “entrepreneurs”. I used that term lightly. You guys are a joke and Swift is rolling in his grave you guidos.
The funniest part of all of this is that “G scene” is actually a gay porn site: http://www.gscene.com. Think of how many more hits you would have had if you picked a name with a domain that wasn’t already registered….to a gay porn site.
Tom,
I would imagine they would get significantly less hits if they had picked a name that wasn’t already a registered domain.
It doesn’t make sense the other way around.
hey tommy was that response harsh enough? hey and big tuna you’re response is about as creative as your blog name, but your gossip website is a lot more classy…i forgot.
I have no idea, but thecolonialist.com should either host an event like GScene does OR organize a bunch of people to go a party Gscene will be photographing. Points could be awarded based on how many times a colonialist reader is featured in a photo on GScene. I’m not sure why there are points involved, but it just felt right to me.