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# This Week - Feb 27, 2015
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2015-02-27/
- Published: 2015-02-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:05.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, andy baio, brian merchant, emilie friedlander, gawker, huck magazine, john saward, medium, motherboard, nick denton, sam biddle, shelley jones, the fader, this week, vice, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> Only in the twisted, face-obsessed world of Reddit, the chans, and YouTube, is the distinction between a sociopath terrorizing a woman on behalf of Gamergate and a sociopath terrorizing a woman on behalf of an obscure satirical point involving Gamergate a meaningful one.  
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> — [Psychopath Who Harassed Brianna Wu: Just Kidding! (Sam Biddle for Gawker)](http://internet.gawker.com/psychopath-who-harassed-brianna-wu-just-kidding-1687695961?ref=drewshannon.net)

> With its emphasis on transparency and efficiency, Everlane brands itself more like a web startup than a fashion company.  
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> — [How Everlane Turned Hipsters Basic (Emilie Friedlander for The Fader)](http://www.thefader.com/2015/02/16/everlane-is-dressing-a-new-professional-class?ref=drewshannon.net)

> I’d argue that consumer brands are actually among the more accountable organizations out there, not necessarily out of choice, but as a function of circumstance.  
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> — [Of course a brand can be your friend (Nick Denton for Gawker)](http://nick.kinja.com/of-course-a-brand-can-be-your-friend-1686102136?ref=drewshannon.net)

> Twitter’s Promoted Tweets are, at best, a necessary evil. At worst, they’re tweets from @Satan himself — brands shoving their unwanted products into your carefully-curated timelines. But with today’s news that we’ll soon start seeing Twitter Ads outside of Twitter, I thought I’d take a deeper look to see if I could exploit Promoted Tweets for my own personal enjoyment.  
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> — [Stupid Tricks with Promoted Tweets (Andy Baio for Medium)](https://medium.com/message/stupid-tricks-with-promoted-tweets-57325552109d?ref=drewshannon.net)

> He is a delivery vehicle for GOD, almost. It sounds ridiculous to say, but if you were GOD, and you were running GOD CORP., this is what you’d want your salesmen to do. He is the VP of Faith and Healing, Earth Bureau. His happiness and composure are relentless. You don’t have time to consider the plausibility of what he is preaching; there is just an assault of powerful rhetoric you can feel settling onto your arm hairs and the back of your neck.  
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> — [Hallowed Be Thy Name Brand: The Religious Consumerism of Megachurch Pastor Joel Osteen (John Saward for Vice)](http://www.vice.com/read/hallowed-be-thy-namebrand-the-religious-consumerism-of-megachurch-pastor-joel-osteen?ref=drewshannon.net)