Alls you need to know about Jakob Lodwick is that he’s one of the dudes who founded College Humor, sold it for lots of cash, only later to be fired for unspecified reasons. Oh, also, he’s a total tool.
Alls you need to know about Jakob Lodwick is that he’s one of the dudes who founded College Humor, sold it for lots of cash, only later to be fired for unspecified reasons. Oh, also, he’s a total tool.
Jakob is mad as hell at the internet, and he’s not gonna take it anymore! He announced on his Tumblr today that he’s breaking up with the internet, after being inspired by his mother’s brave choice to do the same. From his post:
After reading my mom’s post on shutting down her tumblelog, I can’t help but agree, and it’s time for me to end this.
It’s not about Tumblr, specifically. It’s about the web in general. It’s become overrun by too many animals.
What kind of pussy is afraid of internet animals? Srsly! He explains himself, sorta:
I may be a millionaire but I this sort of thing still hurts.
Jeez louise. Also, he’s mad at Gawker, and its writers:
Another last straw was this Gawker post…I was torn to shreds (I still don’t understand why) by the poster, an elf who has never talked to me but stammered a darted his eyes when I encountered him at a party a year ago.
K, so far he’s afraid of cute puppies and he dislikes elves. But this comment on whatever the hell Gawker post he’s talking about (since the internet millionaire didn’t bother to link it) really pushed him over the edge:
I saw him at the Bedford Ave subway station a week ago, looking like an escaped mental patient dressed as a retarded toddler.
LOL! It’s funny ’cause it’s true. (See above photo.) Jakob goes on:
Unfortunately, my line of work requires me to aim high. If you can’t stomach that, fine, but consider the long-term effects of bashing me and others who goals are to innovate. Entrepreneurs, artists — our jobs are not easy; they require doing something new.
Yeah, and it also requires you to have a set of balls. But whatevs. Here’s his big finale:
But going forward, Jakob Lodwick, the person, is withdrawing from the public web. You will see the results of my efforts through Normative and other companies. I just cannot deal with these animals any longer.
this really is such great news!
Oh my god yes.
I like Tumblr as a service, as I’m not original enough to actually blog. But the biggest problem with it is the community. Actually the biggest problem with it was Jakob Lodwick.
Moving on..
This guy is a total douche bag. He tried starting a flame war with me online because he didn’t like something I said. He then used the line, “dont you know who i am?”. Awesome.
Recording Artists, Martial Artists, Con Artists? Everyone wants to be an Artist nowadays, but Entrepreneurial Artist? Most entrepreneurs are only eavesdroppers, idea thieves, or money mimics. This guy Jakob Lodwick is one dog shit smoothie.
we won.
aww look at the squirrels. they know what’s up.
Entrepreneur? New? I can’t tell how much the innovations at College Humor have changed my life!
what the bloody hell is going on here?
I still like the internet.
This is really unfair… I have to say that I’m more than a little disappointed. Jakob has received a ton of meaningless flak over the years from anonymous commenters on Gawker and other trash sites like it. It’s an Internet tabloid – whoever partakes in that media swarm is completely debasing themselves, and although it’s a cliche: they’re usually sad and compensating for it by attacking others. I agree that he took the whole thing a little hard, but put yourself in that situation where someone ridicules just about everything you say and do in an irrational, unconditional way. Where there are groups devoted to knocking you down a few pegs for no reason, people who make it their business to personally destroy you on a daily basis. I’d bet it isn’t easy.
I’m going to just remind people that Jakob started Vimeo (which is a free service open to anybody, and is miles ahead of youtube in terms of how it treats your content), is an incredibly nice guy in person, and is legitimately committed to making the world a better place through art and communication.
If we want to make the Internet something better than TV and other shit media, we have to get rid of these scapegoat circuses altogether.
That’s my two cents – give the guy a break and talk about something important instead.
butttttt
hehe lol
still luvyallz ;P xD ttyl =P
denise,
perhaps lodwick is a pussy/too sensitive, but would it not make you feel bad to be constantly bullied by hundreds of people?
what if each of your articles on this site, and everything you did on the net was mocked by a much huger site like gawker? what if they published photos of you around town and each had comments calling you a gross fat used up cunt, etc. how many months of that could you take before you got so bummed you didn’t want to participate anymore?
jakob took A LOT of shit before he flamed out like this.
Yeah fzz pretty much said what I wanted to say but much cooler
Sebastian Horsley quit his blog too! There is something mean in the internet waters.
CUTE!
“an elf who has never talked to me but stammered a darted his eyes when I encountered him at a party a year ago”
This is actually really funny if you know who he’s talking about.