Careercow Taylor Lorenz - Crybully "journalist", self-appointed Internet Hall Monitor, professional victim, stalks teenagers for e-clout

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Doesn't she have like well-connected parents who are probably just holding their proverbial (wealthy) hand over her retarded head or some people just owe her parents a favor or 2?
At least that's what I've concluded considering her background info found here and the right people in the right places somehow DFE she doesn't want seen on the Internet?

I genuinely refuse to believe someone this mentally deranged and incapable of even basic journalistic tasks could have dirt on anyone, that would mean being at least reasonably competent which she really, really isn't.

She's just a 40-year old something who got into places through nepotism and money.
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If that's true, I'm surprised someone hasn't married her for her money. Then again, they'd have to be a masochist.

Also - Taytay two years from now:

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Taylor Lorenz Exits Washington Post to Launch ‘User Mag’ on Substack​

Tech culture columnist Taylor Lorenz is striking out on her own, exiting The Washington Post to launch her own publication on the Substackplatform.

Lorenz is launching User Magazine, which will “cover technology from the user side. It’s about who has power on the internet and how that power is being wielded,” she says.

“I just wanted to get out of legacy media. I feel like it’s just really, really difficult to do the kind of reporting that I want to do on the internet within these kind of older institutions as a primary job,” Lorenz tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “I like to have a really interactive relationship with my audience. I like to be very vocal online, obviously. And I just think all of that is really hard to do in the roles that are available at these legacy institutions.”

“I think also legacy institutions generally have just really struggled to cover the internet in any meaningful way, I think that they often sort of shy away from the internet,” she adds. “I write about the attention economy, and I write about the content creator industry, and I just want complete autonomy to write and do and say whatever I want, and engage a little bit more directly with my readers, with the public, when it comes to my work.”

Lorenz says that while User Mag will initially just be her, she would like to add contributors over time, and also expand it to other mediums.

As for what readers can expect, Lorenz is promising news, features, and analysis, as well as interviews, deep-dive reporting and links to others covering the space.

“I will be reporting on the people and movements that are steering tech and internet culture, from weird online phenomena, to under-the-radar trends, to platform developments, to policy initiatives, to the powerful forces that shape our online world,” Lorenz wrote in a post introducing User Mag.
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TL;DR Lorenz obviously didn’t get a new contract from the Bezos Wapo. Good riddance.
 
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https://x.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1841137473646444986

As a reminder, the Washington Post started an "investigation" 1.5 months ago, after TayTay called Biden a war criminal and then lied to her editor about it. I assume the coverup was worse than the crime, especially since it was reported on by NPR.
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/taylor-lorenz.117172/post-19098835
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/taylor-lorenz.117172/post-19102788
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/taylor-lorenz.117172/post-19106026
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/taylor-lorenz.117172/post-19106846

This ""exiting"" seems to be the result. :lol: I assume WaPo has also just been looking for an excuse to get rid of her, lol.
Poor TayTay! Now she's been reduced to a mere Substack blogger and Youtuber.

Yet another #DropKiwiFarms zealot getting their comeuppance. :)
 
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https://x.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1841137473646444986

As a reminder, the Washington Post started an "investigation" 1.5 months ago, after TayTay called Biden a war criminal and then lied to her editor about it. I assume the coverup was worse than the crime, especially since it was reported on by NPR.
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/taylor-lorenz.117172/post-19098835
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/taylor-lorenz.117172/post-19102788
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/taylor-lorenz.117172/post-19106026

This ""exiting"" seems to be the result. :lol: I assume WaPo has also just been looking for an excuse to get rid of her, lol.
Poor TayTay! Now she's been reduced to a mere Substack blogger and Youtuber.

Yet another #DropKiwiFarms zealot getting their comeuppance. :)
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Looks like we were right about her leaving Washington Post after the investigation.
 
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She obviously had no plan in place for when WaPo would finally get rid of her.

Idiots like her always fail to realize that they aren't in the cool kids club. They are the sacrificial attack dogs used against their betters' political enemies. They're always caught flat footed when they're cutoff right when their usefulness is at an end.
 
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Here's her announcement page. (archive)
Today I am excited to launch my new publication, User Magazine, on Substack, under which I will pursue the type of reporting on the internet that has become increasingly difficult to do in corporate media.

We now live in a world where politicians can post their way into office, memes fuel our stock market, and online culture and mainstream culture are so deeply intertwined that it’s impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.

User Mag is founded on the belief that the real story of technology lies with its users. Instead of focusing on corporate earnings and boardroom conflicts, User Mag will cover how people are actually using technology.

I will be reporting on the people and movements that are steering tech and internet culture, from weird online phenomena, to under-the-radar trends, to content creators, platform developments, policy initiatives, and the powerful forces that shape our online world. It's about who has power on the internet and how that power is being wielded.

User Mag will arrive via email 1-3 times a week, and paid subscribers will have commenting privileges, access to subscriber-only chats, and will receive exclusive, deep-dive analysis pieces among other benefits. It will include a mix of originally reported articles, interviews, and links to what I’m reading and watching online.


Of course, I’ll still be doing my weekly tech and online culture news podcast, Power User, available on all platforms. (If you're a brand that would like to advertise on my podcast or collaborate in any way, please reach out on hello@usermag.co!)

When I started my career as an independent blogger 15 years ago, my goal was to provide a counter narrative to the technology and online culture coverage I was seeing in the mainstream media. Many traditional journalists at the time sneered at bloggers, dismissed online fandoms, ignored the now nearly half a trillion dollar content creator industry, and failed to recognize the ways in which the internet was upending our culture, economy and political system.

As digital media arose, many of us early bloggers and content creators were scooped up by old school institutions. Legacy media tried desperately to position itself as a credible source for news about online culture. But, many of these institutions, for all their power and prestige, have proven themselves fundamentally unprepared to navigate today’s chaotic, contentious, fast-paced, and highly nuanced online media landscape.

Take, for example, Gamergate which started almost exactly 10 years ago in August 2014, a watershed moment that revealed just how little the traditional media understood about online culture. In the decade since, the legacy media has ignored every single major lesson that should have been learned about the internet’s capacity for mass mobilization and the ways bad actors warp public discourse and weaponize the media itself.

Through my work, I've tried to help people understand technology and the internet's profound impact on our world. I have held senior management roles within newsrooms, lobbied media executives, produced research reports, published endless reporting, and spoken at conferences around the world arguing that we must give online figures, events, and movements the nuanced coverage and analysis they deserve.

But as the internet and media has evolved, it has become clear to me that legacy media is not the right primary environment for the kind of work that I want to do.


I’ve always operated in a weird liminal space, often labeled as an “influencer” or content creator as much as a journalist. And I am, and have always been, both. But the legacy media is not set up for people like me.

The truth is that in today's media environment, these distinctions are meaningless. We are all part of the same media ecosystem; we can all have a voice online. These artificial lines were demolished years ago.

The journalists I’m most inspired by today are those who have taken their voices back into their own hands— independent content creators who challenge powerful institutions and carve out their own space in a crowded media landscape.

By going independent, I hope to do more of what I love: helping people understand the world around them, inspiring them to build a better internet, holding power to account, and honestly, having a lot more fun!!

I want to do all of this without worrying about some corporate overlord and without the constraints of institutions that, at times, are more concerned with optics than with challenging power. I want to experiment with new formats in storytelling without navigating a vast corporate bureaucracy. I want to be able to write freely and speak directly to people via Substack, TikTok, YouTube, my podcast, and run my silly meme pages.

I also firmly believe that the era of faux neutrality—the “view from nowhere” style of journalism—is over. I will always be upfront and honest about my perspectives and where I’m coming from. Sometimes you might disagree with me, or I might be wrong(!), and I’d rather hear that than pretend I’m not a human being with opinions. This transparency is, to me, the essence of trust in journalism.

Unfortunately, I am not independently wealthy. I have rent to pay, living expenses, and significant medical costs. I am also incurring significant costs associated with operating independently including business and software fees, paying for things like design work, editing support, subscriptions to research materials, internet costs, equipment, and more. I have zero investors or corporate backing.

If you received this newsletter as an email from me today, that means you're already a free subscriber to my email list. I sincerely hope you'll consider going paid.

The internet has given us all the tools to tell our own stories, to reach audiences directly, and to build something new. That’s what I intend to do with User Mag. I hope you’ll support me on this journey by purchasing a yearly subscription.

User Mag will begin publishing regularly next week. 💓
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Unfortunately, I am not independently wealthy. I have rent to pay, living expenses, and significant medical costs. I am also incurring significant costs associated with operating independently including business and software fees, paying for things like design work, editing support, subscriptions to research materials, internet costs, equipment, and more. I have zero investors or corporate backing.
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Here are the prices:
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$70/yr
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She's also only allowing comments and chat from people who pay her.
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And out of all the darkness going on in the world, something finally good happens.

I had to doubletake.. $70 a year for her shit? Even cows like Marzgurl don't have that much chutzpah anymore. Damn. Anyone that signs up for that needs to be drawn and quartered.

Oh and LOL!!!
I’ve always operated in a weird liminal space, often labeled as an “influencer” or content creator as much as a journalist. And I am, and have always been, both. But the legacy media is not set up for people like me.
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'Do you guys know how awesome I am, like really.. You people have no idea how amazing my gamergate stuff was.'
 
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At least now she can stay at home and make sure she doesn't catch imaginary Covid from anyone else while she sits alone and miserably plays pretend at being a journalist (see: write schizoid hit piece articles about the ones who wronged her in the past) while getting NEETbucks from her wealthy parents so she can hold a roof above her head.

God forbid this goblin gets an actual job but either way, good riddance.
 
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Given how Miss Lawrence's career revolved around showing up 2-4 years late for internet happenings for her retarded democrat boomer patrons and LARPing as someone of pre-menopausal age with all the latest lol epic awesomesauce meems, I feel it only fitting to send this derelict husk of a person off with a derelict husk of a meme

I wonder what crusty old expired yeast smelling meme best suits this crusty old expired yeast smelling woman's figurative demise.....

Ah what the heck, I'm feelin nostalgic so welcome back to 2018 niggers 🦀
 
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“I just wanted to get out of legacy media. I feel like it’s just really, really difficult to do the kind of reporting that I want to do on the internet within these kind of older institutions as a primary job,” Lorenz tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “I like to have a really interactive relationship with my audience. I like to be very vocal online, obviously. And I just think all of that is really hard to do in the roles that are available at these legacy institutions.”
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As far as I can tell, the Wapo let ran whatever nonsense she felt like sperging about at the moment. Anyway, I'm glad she's free now and I look forward to seeing what heights of hypochondria, troll hate, and libel she can reach now.

They didn't fire me, I left to run a substack really is some delicious cope.
 
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