I just spent about an hour going through Vice Magazine’s website, after reading a bit about it on other peoples blogs. What a piece of shit.
They’ve scoured the planet’s trendy nightclubs for the most privileged young people they can find, told them they’re special, and put them in a magazine to giggle in an oh so sophisticated way at the lesser beings below them. Every bad trend is there: pointless snark, kitsch, racist humor, rich hipster elitism, shitty trendy taste in music, yet more racist humor, and that awful self-satisfied sneer of the half-educated writer who’s never read anything longer than a cereal box.
If you took the meanness of the old Spy, the vapid trendiness of the old Details, the neocon triumphalism of Wired, and the masturbatory self-congratulation of Interview, you’d almost have this one. Maybe needs more Maxim to get the recipe right.
I can be this big of an asshole too, but I don’t go to work and put out a magazine about it, it’s just something that happens to me after 2 beers when I get thoughtless and mean.
Fuck you, Vice.
Be My Blog 
Do they publish fiction?
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Nope. They barely review it!
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I had this experience last week, in fact. It’s like Frat Boy Privilege Weekly. Bluuuuuuhhhh.
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I just took a look at it – those people do not know how to write.
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Fucking nuts strippers beer, twat.
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How Vice got past ‘s BS detector is beyond me. You seen that pic of Gavin McInnes wearing a Skrewdriver T-shirt with a Michael Jackson badge on it? Ferfuxache.
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I haven’t, but it sounds very VICE.
Nonetheless, VICE does have some thought-provoking articles, and is more insightful than it looks on the surface, once you get over the obnoxious fuck-you attitude.
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when did that first come out? i remember reading it when i was in 11th grade, feeling deeply disgusted and writing a big, angry journal entry about hipsters, which i then had to turn in to my classical literature teacher.
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Wired is “neo-con triumphalism”?
Don’t forget the abrasiveness of Answer Me!
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Yeah, I always thought Wired was a techy Playboy for GenX new conservatives. The fact that they worshipped George Gilder was telling.
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Isn’t that Suicide Girls?
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Oh, I didn’t mean nudies, just the attitude. But you’re absolutely right about Suicide Girls!
And as usual you’re more reasonable than I about these things. I fly off the handle at publications that annoy me, but even the ones I can’t stand have some good writing in them.
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Answer Me! did have quite a bit of sense in it.
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Answer Me! did have quite a bit of sense in it.
So does VICE, sometimes at least. Though they beat it up to make it look sensational and bourgeois-sensibility-offending.
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