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more about #faketrends more comments → eatsshootsleaves: Yeah, I don't know. You're right -- it's a joke article. But I don't think you understand how obnoxious these jokes are to women -- the humor is predi... more » freedc: This guy isn't even current. Like a week after people started using 'cougar,' the term 'puma' was coined as a younger cougar type. I remember this b... more » snugbug: Lemme see if I got this right: Sklar posts a blog about Spencer Morgan's piece in which she quotes the Gawker blog about Spencer Morgan's piece that ... more » Mount_Prion: As long as they don't leave my fingers orange. more » Foster Kamer: Goddamnit, Hamilton. Now I don't need to write anything more on this. THANKS. Also, anyone who gets mad about this is clearly projecting. The reason ... more » RachelSklar: Er, enough people have asked me if the article was about me for me to clarify: No. It wasn't. I never thought it was. I meant I'm tired of reading abo... more » DennyCrane: more » A Message To Rudy: Is a panther an African American cheetah or a cougar? Is Sarah Palin a lynx or puma? And what, by definition is an ocelot or a serval? Just want to ... more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: The Observer headline starts with an onomatopoeia. That's how you know the article is gonna be good! more » DennyCrane: If it makes you feel any better, Rachel, I'll date you and I'm a younger guy. Just don't pay attention to the Voltron wallpaper in my bedroom. more » Richard Lawson: "A cold, insinuating rain" is the smoking gun in the 'This article is an obvious joke' case. more » BookishLookish: Will someone PLEASE repost that video of the cheetah lady and her cat baby Frieda? Ah, fuck it, I'll do it. more » BettyCrocker: Holy crap it's a Peyserbot! more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Don't go rawdog with these cats! more » Lysergic Asset: His next exposé covers the uncontrolled exploits of the Cheeto: a sexually aggressive kindergarten girl. more » -
#sexytime
Hisss! Grrrrowl! Article Goads Lady Cheetahs from Their Lairs, On Purpose
If you want to write an article that gets the people talking, one good way is to just start classifying women in random groups, related to age and hot sexxx. Hot sexxxy cheetah ladies cannot resist this delicious media bait! More » -
#faketrends
Counterpoint: Midtown Sucks
Hello, the very latest made-up trend you must know about unless you are some sort of plebe is the simple fact that Midtown is back. According to everybody. More » -
#journalismism
How New York Times Trend Stories Get Made: Glee Edition
All you do is take some element of popular culture, like a popular television show, and then ask, provocatively: Is society itself changing in response to this pop culture thing? Today: Glee makes chorus groups "cool" again. More » -
#trendwatch
Fake Trends Morph Into Old Person Sex Thing
Here is how fake trends turn into troubling fake trends: Wooed into masculine complacency by male body lotion ads, men become metrotextual and start signing their text messages with "Kisses." Next thing you know, grandpa's sexting. More » -
#drugs
Matt Harvey reminds hysterical trend story writers: Heroin has always been, and always shall be.
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#faketrends
Aspiring Young Whites Found in Neighborhood Full of Same
"Professional comedians find camaraderie and economic relief in an unlikely Queens neighborhood." Is Astoria really an "unlikely" Queens neighborhood, for white comedians? No. It's the most likely. Hollis would be unlikely. Every Allen Salkin story makes me so mad. [NYT] -
#trendwatch
But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
Parenthood these days: It is full of challenges, or so we hear! As a parent, will you be able to successfully continue jogging? And what about your tennis game, and the peer pressure that goes with it? Parenting is hard! More » -
#faketrends
Three Disparate Events Prove: Civility Is Dead
A politician shouted during Obama's speech. A tennis player yelled at a line judge. A rapper grabbed a mic during an awards show. All in the same week. You know what this means: A fake trend is sweeping America. More » -
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#faketrends
How One Journalist Killed Facebook
A New York Times columnist last week wrote that Facebook was almost dead after a user "exodus." Just six months earlier, though, she wrote that Facebook showcased a "perfect" cultural vitality. And she cited the same source. More » -
#journalismism
Real Newspaper With Real Reporters Finds Fake Trend
Is it possible to spin a fabricated trend story with a local angle out of the fact that Jayson Blair is now a life coach in Northern Virginia? The Washington Post found a way! More » -
#omg
Hamptons People Wear T-Shirts
Things that would otherwise be boring are in fact not boring—and worthy of extended commentary by the New York Times—if they happen in The Hamptons. In The Hamptons, everything is consequential. In The Hamptons, they wear various t-shirts. More » -
#faketrends
Bow Ties Are Gonna Happen, Goddammit!
Bow ties are so fetch, have you heard? Christina Binkley of the Wall Street Journal reports that everyone from David Beckham to the Jonas Brothers are wearing them. More » -
#faketrends
AOL Email Now as Ironic as a Trucker Hat
Is AOL email now retro cool? One longtime AOL user sure hopes so! -
#trendwatch
Parents Make Kids Eat Health Food Till They Die!
It's Thursday—the day when the New York Times Style section constructs tenuous trend stories designed to infuriate us about largely illusory issues! Woo hoo! Today's trend: crazy parents turn their kids into health food zombies! More » -
#faketrends
No, That Is Not Lincoln's Lost Emoticon
Jennifer 8. Lee of the New York Times spent 1,523 words debating whether her paper used the very first emoticon in 1862 when it printed the text of an Abraham Lincoln speech. More » -
#faketrends
The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
An airplane flies into two vertical objects: For many ordinary New Yorkers, it's a horrible, still-living memory. For Internet commenters, it's absolutely hilarious. More » -
#faketrends
Making money on YouTube? Not so fast
There's gold in them thar YouTubes! People are making literally thousands of dollars a month! What a fluttery Times trend piece doesn't say: Most of YouTube is a creative desert with zero moneymaking potential. -
#faketrends
Jesus freaks now afraid of nanotech, too
Here's an updated list of things America's religious extremists are afraid of: gay marriage, in-vitro fertilization, The Golden Compass, stem-cell research, the earth revolving around the sun, and nanotechnology. Nanotechnology?
