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More Cynicism – PLEASE!

Posted by Pedro Moncrief on November 2nd, 2010 1 Comment

We’re issuing a call to arms… and enlisting those amongst the LonerBoner ranks to  vehemently call “Bullshit!” on deluded idiots that think Twitter and Facebook ctrl-v link slathering  somehow entitles them to “folk hero” status.

Case in point is the ludicrous claims by former Late Nate presence Conan O’Brien, that his control of social media has branded him some sort of come-back kid. Anyone watching his “live” YouTube stream on 11/1 saw amazing tweets such as “#conanshowzero watching www.youtube.com/teamcoco” repeated ad nauseam.

Now, a cornerstone of this site is our on-going critique of the hyperbole surrounding social media (ie: HATEBOMB: Twitter). However,  most of this is transparently generated claims by Read the rest of this entry »

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HATEBOMB: KFC BUCKETS FOR THE CURE

Posted by Pedro Moncrief on May 6th, 2010 2 Comments

Paradox (noun): A self-contradictory statement that at first seems true

Remember when KFC had the urban myth floating around (Snopes), that they no longer referred to “chicken” on the menu and that their rebranding as “KFC” came as a result of the genetically modified, mutant stuff that they grew in a lab being legally unfit to call “chicken.” Which isn’t that crazy, when you consider the Kosher upheaval that resulted from Burger King disclosing that their white-meat Chick’n patties actually contained pork. The legal argument being that they never expressly sold it as “chicken.”

So who better to advocate for Breast Cancer, than those who deal in carcinogenic breasts all-day long? The fact eating at KFC might contribute to what eventually they support curing brings about another definition – vertical integration.

It’s almost like you can smell the bullshit emanating from the agency boardroom that came up with this fucking trash.

Does LonerBoner have to partner with whoever creates the “negative energy” meters for Scientology, to fabricate somesort of bullshit-meter / online app? Something that can weed through tweets and Read the rest of this entry »

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More Plagerism and Twitter Bullshit

Posted by Pedro Moncrief on March 23rd, 2010 4 Comments

Do you like those cutesy, stop-motion Amazon Kindle commercials? Wish that photographers Angela Kohler and Ithyle Griffiths made more of them? Well… Good news… Sorta.

The World Wildlife Fund (the other WWF) has hired LA’s Viral Factory to do what advertising does best. Rip-off other people’s ideas. Granted we just complained about this trend with HATEBOMB: Reboots, Remakes and Rip Offs. And we need to keep doing so. Like some substitute high school teacher, it’s our job to remind everyone that “you can’t take credit for appropriating other people’s work.” Or something like that.

Seriously. Do Creative Directors just sit around and see what’s popular on YouTube? If so, is there an iPhone app that can replace them? That would really speed along our plans to open an automated, cat-run digital shop. After all, in the YouTube game… cat videos have the upper-hand.

Non-cat videos and more after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cyber Emo vs Vintage Virtual Reality

Posted by Pedro Moncrief on February 22nd, 2010 6 Comments

A friend recently summed up the Facebook-era of online activity succinctly, stating “it feels as exciting or thought provocative as watching an episode of Ellen.” Adding the phrase, “it feels like your Mom’s internet.”

In many ways we agree. The whole online experience today feels like a time-wasting trip to the suburban mall. Maybe it’s all the senseless chatter, commercial signage and snapshot voguing that echos the food court environment. Or maybe it’s all the young girls.

That’s the one, great step forward in the social media era. It brought women, younger and older, into the once exclusively male and geek dominated domain of “cyberspace.” For a flash back to how this used to be, five seconds spent on ChatRoulette (link) will show you an anonymous webcam portrait of dudes in dorms, masturbating schlongs and more dudes in dorms. In other words, good luck finding women outside of the fluff communities of Facebook, Twitter, online retail and homogenized blogging.

Whereas all this social media stuff is purported to be keeping everyone connected, in reality it’s all just pretending your famous. Facebook / Twitter / et al are only about  emulating celebrity culture, with  followers tracking your every minute move like  stalker fans. It is just ego stroking,  borrowing from the culture of tabloid soundbites and newsmagazine fandom. As if everyone in corporate marketing is a rockstar wannabe. There is no real communication going on here.  Just people who are sold on the US Magazine / Access Hollywood view of America, and now simulate it being by both groupie and B-list famewhore.

Whereas this publicity environment of constant press-releases used to be the domain of the media, today the situation is brands trying to figure about how to excite all these miniature self-promoters to buzz about their latest product.

It wasn’t always this piss poor. The release of AVATAR has got us thinking of what a pussy time 2010 is. Which is even more depressing, when you where you consider where James Cameron took pop-culture Read the rest of this entry »

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Social Filter Apps To Come?

Posted by Pedro Moncrief on February 3rd, 2010 1 Comment

At a recent SXSW Interactive 2010 mixer we witnessed the following – people bumping iPhones, exchanging Twitter usernames and buying their own drinks. Which is a polite way of saying a ton of people showed up looking to network on social media paydays, but no one seemed to be cashing in yet. It’s as if everyone was following advice collected from keynote addresses, blogs and whatnot on how to properly socialize in the year 2010. It seemed like a hollow charade mixed with peer pressure. As if anyone will be seen as confident players in some Web x.0 freaknik… by iPhoning these newer Twitter IDs instead of swapping older business cards.

Long story short, LonerBoner met a bunch of people who seemed self-employed, freelancing or downright unemployable. Yet all having the idea that they’re movers and shakers in this social media clusterfuck of Tweeting your mobile blog updates to some Facebook page. All these lanyard losers seemed proud of the fact they were dropping money to see the CEO of Twitter. Which is a little questionable, as he’s not a Jim Jones or even Tony Robbins type. His message is only one of creating an abundance of meaningless information. Yet people seem intent on adopting “The 4-Hour Work Week” to autoblogging or “running their own shop,” based on solely on repurposing the cloud of social media soundbites.

The real issue now, is how can this information overload be filtered so that anything of worth differentiates itself from the blather that makes up 99% of the peer cloud that your follow? While Read the rest of this entry »

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HATEBOMB: Calling Bullshit on Twitter

Posted by Pedro Moncrief on November 24th, 2009 1 Comment

hate_bombTodd Barry is a cool guy, but his Twitter account looks like an HTML abortion.

Twitter is essentially a public pool, with a mix of self-promoters splashing around next to people too friendless to have access to post comments on Facebook. So you get a mix of “Jason Segel is funny. HaHaHa” and “@MaKeMon-E#MONEYhttp://moneyistgut.be!!!TOM CRUISE.” To further the pool analogy, it’s our experience that it’s better to go swim where the entire public isn’t pissing collectively.

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