Can I go on an nonconstructive rant here ? I can ? Wow, thanks.
I just wished people with access to a soap box would stop using the expression "The next <insert popular product>". The next IPhone, The next Reddit, The next this and that. Please, stop.
"The next of <popular product>" implies that a successful site or artist or anything is a generic category, filled with fungible commodities without their own characteristics.
Reddit is not a category of website, just like IPhone is not a category of electronic devices and Black Sabbath is not a music style. When I browse Reddit, I'm browsing Reddit, not a news aggregator. Simple as that.
To add insult to injury, It reeks of superlatives, like "the best thing since sliced bread". When I see such things on a headline, I usually skip it entirely, I fell like the author (or his editor) is trying to steer me to a conclusion he already made, instead of giving me just the facts, or at the very least leaving it pretty clear that the content is opinion.
Can I go on an nonconstructive rant here ? I can ? Wow, thanks.
I just wished people with access to a soap box would stop using the expression "The next <insert popular product>". The next IPhone, The next Reddit, The next this and that. Please, stop.
"The next of <popular product>" implies that a successful site or artist or anything is a generic category, filled with fungible commodities without their own characteristics.
Reddit is not a category of website, just like IPhone is not a category of electronic devices and Black Sabbath is not a music style. When I browse Reddit, I'm browsing Reddit, not a news aggregator. Simple as that.
To add insult to injury, It reeks of superlatives, like "the best thing since sliced bread". When I see such things on a headline, I usually skip it entirely, I fell like the author (or his editor) is trying to steer me to a conclusion he already made, instead of giving me just the facts, or at the very least leaving it pretty clear that the content is opinion.
/rant
PS: Sorry.