this is sad....

I really don't know what these two were thinking, it was setup for failure, disaster and much more from the inception. The crash and burn seemed inevitable. Nonetheless, it is sad it come to fruition so quickly.

Dear Readers,

The last time we got in a big fight, I hastily broke up with Julia online and embarrassed myself. That won’t happen again.

I’m no longer interested in maintaining this site; today is the start of the 14 day waiting period for shutdown as stipulated in our founding agreement.

Rather than discuss personal details further, I will let our readers assume that I’m a jerk (or whatever). My interest in creating fuel for the gossip sites has dried up; I would like to put them on a “no junk food” diet.

I wish this site could have blossomed into something amazing. Unfortunately, I’m not willing to sacrifice my sanity to an experiment. I also don’t like interacting with Julia with the awareness that whatever I say could be judged by thousands of strangers. They are welcome to judge my photographs, my articles, and my videos… but this personal stuff? I’m finding myself unable to name a reason for giving it to them. I don’t enjoy the attention anymore.

Don’t misunderstand that: I love attention when it is earned. I love celebrity that sits atop compelling achievement. But us humans are predisposed to seek and absorb gossip with the mindlessness of starving animals, and I have no interest in being part of that awful game anymore. I’ll take a fraction of the traffic if it means my readers are independent thinkers who like my ideas instead of bored-at-workers who obsess over someone else’s relationship for God knows what psychological pretzel of a reason.

I’m already at a major turning point in my life so the end of one other project doesn’t exactly tear me apart. I hope it isn’t too upsetting for Julia.

Oh, and if you’re in a relationship and want some easy attention, you should try copying us. This is not to say we started this site for attention — that wasn’t the main reason — but attention will probably come to you.

Posted by jakob