Metafilter is filled with clowns, but in a piece the other day (sorry, lost the link; too lazy to look for it), I was attempting to figure out why so many of the the MeFi commenters hated Kate Wagner so much. And I do not completely have the answer but I think it’s related to the PMC lib ideation that corporations actually love them.

Insanely, the majority of them really do seem to believe this. I think it’s a protection from harm thing in an increasingly precarious world; if they sincerely believe a corporation (or many corporations) love them, then it helps them to feel protected, insulated, enveloped in a bubble of care. That it’s a complete fiction doesn’t play into it — the feeling is all that matters.

Thus, Kate with her cheeky satire and disdain for both PMC lib aspirational goods and for corporate propaganda and production makes her the sworn enemy. They must strike her down rhetorically to preserve their parasocial amity toward corporate entities who couldn’t care less if they live or die.

As I said to start, MeFi is filled with vapid clowns.