The Resident interviewed Julia Allison, Meghan Asha, the "Groupon Guy," and Gawker Media's own Nick Denton in hopes of revealing stories of the internet ruining people's lives. Turns out, the Webutante Ball was full of people who love the internet.

The internet's successful replacement of prestige accorded for moral worth with a new aspirational standard based solely on disdain-laden media notoriety, summed up in two Twitpics from Arthur Kade, before and during last night's "Webutante Ball":

Photo by Gawker Artist and friend Amy V. Cooper. Tonight's "Webutante Ball" hosted by Gawker video maven Richard Blakeley and Jessica Amason.