{"id":12830,"date":"2010-08-11T16:19:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2010-08-11T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:21:57","slug":"the-chive-brags-about-trolling-the-internet-again-internet-responds-with-hilarity-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/the-chive-brags-about-trolling-the-internet-again-internet-responds-with-hilarity-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chive Brags About Trolling The Internet&#8230;Again. Internet Responds with Hilarity, Truth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chive trolled the Internet(and us) yesterday with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fumetti\" class=\"external external_icon\">fumetti <\/a>of the<a href=\"http:\/\/thechive.com\/2010\/08\/10\/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos\/\" class=\"external external_icon\"> girl who &#8220;quit her job&#8221; via a whiteboard email<\/a>. Why were we taken in so easily by this? Maybe it&#8217;s because times are tough and many of us cubicle rats have bosses that are &#8220;garbage diSpencers.&#8221; Or maybe because reality is strange without it having to be tainted by childish pranks. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t misunderstand. That whole deal was\/is more entertaining than anything Internet attempts on April Fools. But reality(we&#8217;re looking at you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=12803\">Steven Slater)<\/a> is stranger than anything they could ever imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/thechive.com\/2010\/08\/11\/a-word-from-jenny-16-photos\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Chive responded<\/a> about the &#8220;wild ride&#8221; with another fumetti.<\/p>\n<p>Just know that that Internet backlash can be a bitch.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freakangels.com\/whitechapel\/comments.php?DiscussionID=8664&amp;page=10\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/elyse-e1281564723246.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The truth holds to itself.\" width=\"550\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12831\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Let the memetic mutations begin. Feel free, faithful photoshopper, to drop your sentiments in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/freakangels.com\/whitechapel\/comments.php?DiscussionID=8664&#038;page=10\" class=\"external external_icon\">August in Whitechapel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chive trolled the Internet(and us) yesterday with the fumetti of the girl who &#8220;quit her job&#8221; via a whiteboard email. Why were we taken in so easily by this? Maybe it&#8217;s because times are tough and many of us cubicle rats have bosses that are &#8220;garbage diSpencers.&#8221; Or maybe because reality is strange without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,75,691,76],"tags":[2976,2607,2632,4948,803,2975],"class_list":["post-12830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-intertube-madness","category-lol-intertube-madness","category-macro","tag-fool-us-once","tag-fumetti","tag-hoax","tag-macro","tag-meme","tag-the-chive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12834,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions\/12834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}