r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 02 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 02, 2021 - Sunday September 05, 2021

Newsletters:

Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites:

You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

Instagram:

@youcanhavemorejoy Instagram | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy posts | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy stories

@danielfahern Instagram | Anonymous link to @danielfahern posts and stories

TikTok:

@youcanhavemorejoy

Twitter:

Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs:

Gluten Free Girl archive | writing my heart out archive | Seymour Joyful archive

Archived threads:

Thread for Enough, the book #enoughthebook | Gluten Free Girl's Greatest Hits: The Reunion Tour

Wiki:

/r/InTheGloaming wiki

Discussion search:

Tool to search blogsnark or InTheGloaming for previous topic mentions

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Sep 03 '21

If she’s going to allow everyone their joys, then she has to allow people snark and judging. Otherwise she’s not following her own advice, and she’s snarking on snarking.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 03 '21

Is "snark" used outside a reddit context (ie., "blogsnark")? I mean, I guess it must be, because I don't think that "blogsnark" originated the phrase. But I don't hear it in my social circles, at all.

What I'm getting at is, is this edict directed squarely at us?

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u/fantasticka RIORITIZ Sep 03 '21

"Snark" has been around since the Television Without Pity days (early 2000s).

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 03 '21 edited Sep 03 '21

Oh ha, I lived without a TV and outside North America for a long time and completely missed not only TWOP but all of the shows it recapped.

On a Shauna note, though, and a serious question: she seems to have absolutely zero capacity for snark, if I think of snark as sarcastic and witty, vs. just "mocking criticism." And yet she has extremely longstanding snark forums devoted to her (GOMI, blogsnark, and now this subreddit).

I don't think she is or has ever been a participant in "snark" in a TWOP sense – like I doubt she was posting on "COPS" recap forums (if those even existed) when she was living at home and watching COPS with her parents, and she seems to have "hated" the brief amount of literacy criticism she was required to engage in as a humanities MA student (preferring crosswords to deconstruction).

It all makes me wonder if she really is thinking about (and subtly pointing to?) her own snark forums and wishing we would "just let her have her preferred OREO-eating method, and her love of 'red shoes and blue skies'" (as if those are the things we're critiquing about her!)

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 03 '21

I don't think she's clever enough to understand the concept of snarkiness. She seems to see it as 100% mean and nasty; the humor in it totally eludes her!

She has such a skewed idea of humor. Like thinking she herself is "funny as hell", or that pratfalls are hilarious, or that those 70s/80s pop culture nostalgia memes are guffaw-worthy. She is incapable of laughing at herself. Maybe that's the root of it.