CNN Declares War On The Internet

I wasn’t planning on doing Yet Another CNN Post. But CNN decided that repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot with a .38 wasn’t sufficient, got out a shotgun and took aim at their own torso.

After embarrassing themselves by freaking out over Trump retweeting a wrestling meme, CNN decided they just hadn’t embarrassed themselves enough and dectupled down by openly threatening to unmask the creator of the meme President Trump retweeted if he didn’t offer up a Mao-era “struggle session” confession of his signs against the class struggle CNN’s fragile ego.

Because that’s a totally normal thing news networks do.

And thus was the #CNNBlackmail tag born.

And did I mention that the person CNN is evidently trying to unmask is reportedly a 15-year old kid?

Bonus: CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, who made himself the public face of the threatened doxing (“that will teach you to make fun of your awesome media betters, you puny peasant!”) evidently had a key role in a very early Twitter mobbing:

The kid CNN threatened to dox shouldn’t have apologized, he should have had his parents set up a Patron account to make more anti-CNN memes. By lunchtime he’d have been rich enough to retire.

Moreover, CNN’s bragging about they had threatened a random Internet user over a meme was their lead story for hours. Either they have no idea how distasteful the average Internet user would find this wildly disproportionate response, or else their collective egos have been so bruised by constantly losing to Trump that they feel an acute psychic need to celebrate swatting a fly with a howitzer.

And they seem to have no idea just what’s about to happen to them. They just went from “having a bad week” to “worst week for a media company since Hulk Hogan body slammed Gawker clear out of the Prime Material Plane.”

Getting into meme war with 4Chan is like getting into a land war in Asia. Except that occasionally someone wins a land war in Asia.

The targeted pushback has already begun.

This will not end well for CNN.

In fact, it may actually end CNN entirely…

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3 Responses to “CNN Declares War On The Internet”

  1. MikeyParks says:
    July 5, 2017 at 1:38 PM

    CNN might as well have started a “Make Fun of CNN” contest. They really did fall on their bayonet!

  2. Howard says:
    July 5, 2017 at 8:50 PM

    Let me see if I have this right:

    – liberal nutjob with a hit lists shoots up a baseball practice in attempted assassination … CNN spends 1 day covering the story
    – silly meme tweaking CNN goes viral … CNN spends 4 days (and counting) …

    Because that makes any sort of sense.

  3. Infidel de Manahatta says:
    July 6, 2017 at 5:43 AM

    Jeff Zucker. The gift that keeps on giving. He destroyed MSNBC and now he’s destroying CNN.

    We should thank him.

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