Spring Break
Down With Juicy Campus
Attacking the worst web site ever
Hunter Patterson
Issue date: 3/4/09 Section: Opinion
Also, I ask; is this type of gossip something entirely new or is it just part of the human condition, something that now has a more public forum ,via the internet, to manifest itself?
I fear it is the later. It seems that humans have always been ones to gossip, slander and libel one another, even when those people whose reputations they are tarnishing are supposedly friends and classmates. I don't believe Juicy Campus to be the end of civilization, just a blemish on the body of humanity, one that we will always have upon us.
However this does not mean surrender. When a blemish is seen on an apple there are options. Either try to rub it away, constantly striking the fruit against your shirt in vain or the blemish can be accepted as apart of the apple. Accepting the blemish renders it easy to remove. Just take a big bite out of it, removing the blemish. This too is how we must and- fortunately -have begun to deal with Juicy Campus. Biting away at it, blemish by blemish
As with most pop culture phenomena, Juicy Campus is on a timer, hopefully a very short one. I hope, like the Slam books, that Juicy Campus will fade away, only coming up years later in one of those "Hey remember when…?" conversations.
Post Script:
When Juicy Campus started five months ago, its clock begin to run. Little did I know that it wouldn't just be spamming or peoples' own moral decency that would shut down the site, but the economy as well. As companies begin to slash and burn any form of their budget that can be viewed as wasteful (internet advertising) many small-time, ad-based websites like JC will begin to shut down. As the news that its shutting down begins to spread, you aren't hearing many moans, instead you are hearing "Good" and "About time" and ( a personal favorite) "We killed it! We totally spammed the sh*t out of it!". But did we? Was our spamming and general hatred of the hate-site really its downfall? I say yes, I say no. Yes in the sense that it dissolved any sort of "Brand loyalty" that devotees had in the site, ticking down the hit counts and unique hits (the lifeblood of all websites) as it just became a website of wiki-articles and nonsense (even more so than the gossip the site was created to facilitate). No, in that many will, foolishly, see this as the lone factor and as good as that would make this writer feel, I know that it simply isn't true. The truth is Juicy Campus simply killed itself, in a slow-motion suicide created by its own vileness and filth with the down-turn in the economy as a much welcomed silver bullet, hopefully killing this Juicy Monster for all time.
I fear it is the later. It seems that humans have always been ones to gossip, slander and libel one another, even when those people whose reputations they are tarnishing are supposedly friends and classmates. I don't believe Juicy Campus to be the end of civilization, just a blemish on the body of humanity, one that we will always have upon us.
However this does not mean surrender. When a blemish is seen on an apple there are options. Either try to rub it away, constantly striking the fruit against your shirt in vain or the blemish can be accepted as apart of the apple. Accepting the blemish renders it easy to remove. Just take a big bite out of it, removing the blemish. This too is how we must and- fortunately -have begun to deal with Juicy Campus. Biting away at it, blemish by blemish
As with most pop culture phenomena, Juicy Campus is on a timer, hopefully a very short one. I hope, like the Slam books, that Juicy Campus will fade away, only coming up years later in one of those "Hey remember when…?" conversations.
Post Script:
When Juicy Campus started five months ago, its clock begin to run. Little did I know that it wouldn't just be spamming or peoples' own moral decency that would shut down the site, but the economy as well. As companies begin to slash and burn any form of their budget that can be viewed as wasteful (internet advertising) many small-time, ad-based websites like JC will begin to shut down. As the news that its shutting down begins to spread, you aren't hearing many moans, instead you are hearing "Good" and "About time" and ( a personal favorite) "We killed it! We totally spammed the sh*t out of it!". But did we? Was our spamming and general hatred of the hate-site really its downfall? I say yes, I say no. Yes in the sense that it dissolved any sort of "Brand loyalty" that devotees had in the site, ticking down the hit counts and unique hits (the lifeblood of all websites) as it just became a website of wiki-articles and nonsense (even more so than the gossip the site was created to facilitate). No, in that many will, foolishly, see this as the lone factor and as good as that would make this writer feel, I know that it simply isn't true. The truth is Juicy Campus simply killed itself, in a slow-motion suicide created by its own vileness and filth with the down-turn in the economy as a much welcomed silver bullet, hopefully killing this Juicy Monster for all time.
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