
Back in the nineties it used to funny as hell and had great bitchy celeb snark but it doesn't seem to have Our Empress of Lucite or Chicken Cutlets type featured celebs anymore. The gossip has gotten kind of boring.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | June 23, 2023 7:26 PM |
I used to read it a lot in the aughts. I think since Michael K is no longer really actively writing much of the content anymore, it's not good. Too bad, he was hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 1, 2021 11:06 PM |
Michael has some type of health problem, he still occasionally posts. I look at it every now and then but it is a shell of its former self.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 1, 2021 11:30 PM |
i used to read and comment all the time. I agree, it wasn't the same once Michael K had others writing for him
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 1, 2021 11:43 PM |
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! You're dead to me!!!! Burn in Hell DListed!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 2, 2021 12:27 AM |
Aww I still love Michael K though I listen to Dlisted the podcast more than I read the blog. That mother-fucker brought me so many laughs over the years, I can’t quit him.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 2, 2021 12:28 AM |
I did love Michael K and Dlisted but yes, the thrill is gone.
He and the Fug Girls had a great way of both poking fun at someone but also kind of doing it in a slightly affectionate way. An art which is no longer appreciated. And they did it to people grasping for any attention, like Chicken Cutlets, the Peldon sisters, and Rojo Caliente, so those people probably appreciated the clicks.
Last year several queens on social media had a hissy fit about the Fug Girls and called them "bullying and abusive" which was just ridiculous. I think complaints about woke/SJW are vastly overstated but in this case, it was on the nose....someone just grabbing onto complete nonsense. But yeah, that kind of snark is no longer appreciated.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 2, 2021 1:30 AM |
I kind of outgrew it to be honest. And the comments are too lock and step.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 2, 2021 2:44 AM |
Like r8 I outgrew it and celebrity gossip changed--today it's too polished and scripted. Back in the 00s when those bitches were flashing their cooch every other week, the blogs were a whiff of fresh air.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 2, 2021 2:49 AM |
I loved his Rojo Caliente posts, always made me laugh, and his comments were affectionate. Also PHG - especially when the naked pics of him in Las Vegas came out. I think I found the DL because of dListed.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 2, 2021 2:50 AM |
Fraus started to write for it, and women aren’t funny.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 2, 2021 3:13 AM |
I loved his paeans to the radiant first lady of Cameroon, Mme. Chantal Biya.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 12 | November 2, 2021 3:16 AM |
I no longer visit the site. The comment section has become a complete Frau echo chamber à la Joe My God.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 2, 2021 3:19 AM |
Michael left in 2013 because of his health issues, but he left the "quirky humor" to a humorless frau and couple other unfunny people and the blog died. I left and never went back.
I just listened to 5 minutes of his latest podcast and guess how long I lasted? 5 minutes. It turns out, he's not funny either!!! He was funny at a keyboard, but not "live and uncensored"! And guess who his co-host is? The unfunny frau that he left in charge in 2013!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 2, 2021 3:29 AM |
[quote]Back in the nineties
I think you mean the 2000's
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 2, 2021 3:58 AM |
Celebrity gossip was fun for a hot second back then.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 2, 2021 3:59 AM |
I totally forgot about d listed. Will ck it out!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 2, 2021 8:59 AM |
Our previous thread on this
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | November 2, 2021 1:12 PM |
I was a regular for YEARS, from the very beginning. It was the best place on the Internet for a long, long time. Michael K still has my heart, and I didn’t mind the new writers.
My problem was the commentariat changed after a while. It got very SJW and intolerant of any deviation from the set of opinions set out by the ruling clique.
There used to be a constant commenter who just disappeared one day, and I remember thinking “how can you just quit this place - cold turkey?” And then one day I simply had sufficient and never went back.
But it was so fun while it lasted. So many laughs, so much camaraderie.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 2, 2021 2:11 PM |
The comments section used to be full of hilarious, quotable people.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 2, 2021 3:28 PM |
I still call Gaga Lady CaCa because of that site. What annoyed me was how messy it got to navigate. I'd also get security warnings when I went there. I kind of just quit visiting. He was sooooo funny sometimes.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 2, 2021 3:38 PM |
I’ve had the same experience online before. There’s a place with great posts and commenters that is lots of fun and it’s like lightning in a bottle. It never lasts. Someone always ruins it. I’ve learned to enjoy it and not expect it to be forever.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 2, 2021 3:59 PM |
Michael K if you are reading this, I think you may be: sending you love and good wishes for your health, thanks for the laughs, I would pay to access the archives in an easy way w/o weaving through the spammy dlisted site. Still think you should write a book about the golden years of internet gossip.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 2, 2021 4:08 PM |
Dlisted is where I got, and reposted here, the quote about the People cover pic of that ugly RHWONJ and her spawn.
"The female, surrounded by her young, stares quizzically at the camera. Her mate, the old Silverback, has left her for another female."
When I first read that I fell out of my chair laughing.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 2, 2021 4:10 PM |
I used to visit the site all the time, and was really active in the comment section. It went downhill when there was a sudden influx of new commenters who all of a sudden decided that snark was offensive. Somehow a bunch of the old-timers who there fraus jumped aboard. Now its just stale. I do remember when SuckAndFuck said he through Mrs Patrick Campbell was funny, so they branded him a child molester/child porn apologist. . I feel like a lot of old timers just felt bullied to some extent, and left.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 2, 2021 4:37 PM |
Dlisted was very much of its time ( 2005-2010) It's funny how mores change though. All of the posters now adamantly advocating for Britney Spears were probably the same ones calling her Shitney a decade ago. Humans have such a mob mentality.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 2, 2021 8:11 PM |
Michael K was a lil San Gabriel Valley gossip angel. The true golden age of celebrity trash gossip. So much fun while it lasted.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 3, 2021 2:14 AM |
Not to detract from Michael K--I loved him, and he emailed me back a few times when I sent him tips. He was funny--and a few of his new hires are funny. (I laugh out loud every once in awhile and always scroll up to see who wrote the piece.) He doesn't post much anymore due to his health issues.
My point I was attempting to get to... WWTDD.com was painstakingly, gut-wrenchingly, hip-removingly funny back in the day. Perez Hilton always went for the jugular with the squiggly remarks on pap pics and had no sense of his audience. (He only cared about humiliating the celebs.) Tyler Durden--I forget the webmaster's real name on WWTDD.com --was simultaneously compassionate, yet obviously sarcastic. I've tried to find the post where he remarked on Jake Gyllenhaal: "He couldn't be gayer if he were wearing a sailor's hat and covered in semen." This was 2005 and we laughed about it so hard in the office that I thought my manager was going to have a conniption.
Side note: WWTDD.com referred to Kirsten Dunst as "Snaggle Tooth," and Ted Casablanca referred to Jakey G as "Toothy Tile." Oh, I miss the early aughts.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 3, 2021 4:04 PM |
You can see posters doing the same shit here as they did in the Dlisted comments - I hate the phrase "punching down" but the whole intersectionality theory is their attempt to figure out who is "down" and who is "up". So it isn't so much about the experiences or personality of the person in question as it is a handful of external labels that are used to determine if they are untouchable or not.
So then it becomes easy - never say anything that could be taken badly about a group that falls in the subclass of "down", ever. Attack people and groups who fall in the subclass of "up"; that is still acceptable. A lot of it seems like kids trying to figure out the "rules of the internet" which I can sort of understand on some level because knowing the rules of a certain place or social sphere gives you control over it.
And that's what the ultimate goal is - control over what is basically the chaos of the internet. Even if it's just control over your own small piece of it. Kids today have grown up with the chaotic internet and the amount of information it pumps out is growing exponentially. I'm not surprised that everyone seems to have "anxiety" now.
The big problems arise when that sense of control turns into a sense of power and then is used to keep others in line. Then it becomes bigger, a movement and it's accepted to be a bully and horrible person as long as you remember to "punch up". But the line between up and down is getting thinner and more pliable and you have people claiming things like "all white people are up" so then the group of who is considered "up" grows even larger and the "down" group shrinks considerably.
And along the way, you've made bullying acceptable again, and pile-ons are acceptable and desired, and general meanness and nastiness is acceptable and you end up with the mess we have today where everyone can be made into a villain just by saying the wrong thing or even being the wrong place at the wrong time.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 3, 2021 4:28 PM |
Ref those who outgrew dlisted, I wonder if we will outgrow DL. Of course we won't be hearing from those who did outgrew this - or died.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 3, 2021 5:00 PM |
Nothing will ever be as good as the affectionate teasing of Rojo Caliente. It seems to have stopped now, but it was glorious.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 3, 2021 6:12 PM |
R32 DL can be terribly juvenile ( and cruel) but I think it's harder to outgrow because of the sheer variety of topics discussed. Yes there will be about 500 posts about Harry and Megan's trip to Starbucks or some discontinued junk food but there's also a lot of posts on niche topics. Dlisted not so much.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 3, 2021 6:16 PM |
What made Dlisted so great for me was that Michael was making fun of himself as much as he made fun of celebrities and their official statements. He presented himself as a basic bitch who knows basic bitches when he sees them trying to pull desperate PR stunts, damage control, or use the "please give us some privacy now that we've shit the bed and have to deal with a full-blown scandal in public!" excuse.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 3, 2021 6:28 PM |
I kinda think that's a cheap tactic to get out of blowback from ridiculing people. It's basically a cliche, the self-deprecating make fun of themselves and then use that leeway to make fun of others. So it seems more acceptable to people that way, when in reality they're still ridiculing people.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 3, 2021 6:45 PM |
It was glorious while it lasted. I really miss my favorite commenters.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 3, 2021 8:49 PM |
Does suckandfuck post on Datalounge?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | November 3, 2021 8:53 PM |
The comment section went to hell. A few queen bees spent all day on there and if anyone disagrees with the approved POV, you're SOL
by Anonymous | reply 39 | November 3, 2021 8:55 PM |
I miss Michael K.'s postings about his "abuelita".
by Anonymous | reply 40 | November 3, 2021 8:56 PM |
The women who write for that site are NOT humorous in any fashion. Go read the very earnest post today about Jennifer Garner of all people. Dlisted is peak FRAU at this point.
I don't even believe that the posts under the Michael K tag were written by him, either, unless he's lost all of his snarky humor.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | November 3, 2021 9:04 PM |
Health problemen? Really? Couldn't have happened to a nicer person. ( is it the AIDS so many people wished on him?)
Bitch can die in a grease fire all I care.
On the island of Lord of the flies he certainly was head bully. Number one.
So karma came knocking on his door boohoo boohoo excuse me if I have no sympathy for that shit stain
by Anonymous | reply 42 | November 3, 2021 9:44 PM |
I knew it was over a few years ago when one of the gay queen bees in the comment section "found a boyfriend" on DListed and they would play out their romance in the comment section and everyone had to gush over them.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | November 3, 2021 10:05 PM |
R40, the abuelita stories were the best. One post described a wedding reception (his aunt?) on a cement patio and it was hysterical. Stories about his sister and some relative throwing a 'chancleta' were always a good laugh too.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 4, 2021 12:58 AM |
R39 and R41 are right, the comment section has slowly become a totally clique-y clusterfuck of po-faced, unfunny fraus who, in spite of their reliably safe and conventional opinions, seem to think they're edgy as hell because they hang out somewhere a gay man one posted. I stopped commenting about couple of years ago after getting seriously accused of being a racist for some extremely light comment about Megan Markle (please don't come for me I don't hate her but I do find her, like many celebrities, somewhat ridiculous). It just got very unfun and the whole reason to go there was gone.
(also they were all convinced Britney's dad was 100% on the up and up until a few months ago when it suddenly became obvious he wasn't and everyone forgot they'd spent the last decade defending him)
by Anonymous | reply 45 | November 4, 2021 9:37 AM |
Man, I really do miss the old school days of great celebrity gossip. Folks really went there back then...now everything is so safe and clean, even in the gossip mill (or it's outright bizarre conspiracy shit). The wit and wisdom is all gone... not to mention all those on those sites like Dlisted that actually had the industry goods on the claims being made. Even Datalounge was the place to get the celeb gossip goods. Now it feels like the well is all but dry (mostly), and even more, fans have become cult members and can't take any criticism or 'out of line' opinion about their fav, and so nobody can speak their mind (reasonably, of course). I miss those days...
by Anonymous | reply 46 | November 4, 2021 10:13 AM |
r36, you think the celebrities he made fun of didn't deserve it? I can't recall a single incident where his ridicule was mean. All I remember are incidents where he makes fun of PR stunts (like closet cases making out with their beards in public and *gasp* pictures are being taken by the paparazzi). Did he ever make fun of celebs physical traits like Rumer Willis' big chin?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | November 4, 2021 11:17 AM |
I don't get the comment section criticism. Are you guys that desperate for validation that you need it from the other readers who viciously deny you their attention and keep to themselves?
If you don't comment for the fun of it, don't bother in the first place.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 4, 2021 11:22 AM |
More importantly, does anyone still wear a hat?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 4, 2021 2:33 PM |
R48 I think it’s not so much about the comments providing validation as it is about the commenters in DListed’s heydey were absolutely hilarious. There were some real sharp funny people who commented and it was bonus entertainment on top of Michael K’s hilarious writing. But slowly those sharp funny commenters gave way to a bunch of SJW fraus who shouted down anyone who failed to tow the line. It stopped being fun.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | November 4, 2021 3:02 PM |
R50, exactly. I’ve seen it happen on every online forum I’ve ever participated in for any length of time. There are one or two Queen Bees and they have their followers. It could be any topic; true crime, cooking, vintage car restoration, houseplants, celeb gossip. A ruling group takes over, and any difference of opinion is quashed.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | November 4, 2021 4:51 PM |
Alison is not that funny and then he has her on the podcast, bad move
by Anonymous | reply 52 | November 5, 2021 1:41 AM |
Dlisted wast mean spirited like Perez.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 5, 2021 8:24 AM |
Michael K has suffered with a debilitating vision issue. Don't criticize him, please.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 5, 2021 9:58 AM |
Love Michael K. I enjoy listening to the podcast with Allison, they just sound like a couple of pals having a good time together.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | November 5, 2021 10:11 AM |
Are you sure it's not the aids? It would be such a laugh if it was the aids. Such delicious schadenfreude laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 5, 2021 12:44 PM |
R54 sounds like a fan girl 🙄
by Anonymous | reply 57 | November 5, 2021 12:55 PM |
R56 is a psychotic troll.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 5, 2021 8:33 PM |
the comments got very cliquey-and if you weren't part of the clique they treated you like shit
by Anonymous | reply 59 | November 7, 2021 9:46 PM |
R47 oh, I don't care about the celebrities' feelings, I was just pointing it out
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 7, 2021 9:50 PM |
R50 that happened on Gawker, too. These places are lighting in a bottle.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | November 7, 2021 9:52 PM |
Won't someone please SHIT IN MY MOUTH???
by Anonymous | reply 62 | November 7, 2021 9:55 PM |
R20 That’s how I felt in the heady days of Gawker.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | November 7, 2021 10:58 PM |
I am bored and thought I would look there tonight and keep getting an error message and it won't come up.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 27, 2022 7:21 AM |
Ah, yes, I agree the comment section went to the pits...
Also, I wouldn't blame the fraus as much as as just one who writer there that seemed to resent there were comments at all... at least, not comments constantly blowing smoke up her duff. There was a collective dislike of her... she was also one of the modss, so it set off a bit of a war. It also likely didn't help that someone, who shall remain unnamed, had a talent for finding her articles and flooding them with rugby porn.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 27, 2022 7:34 AM |
Dlisted went the way of the dinosaur. It was great when Michael K was there. When he wasn't, the difference was night and day.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 27, 2022 8:23 AM |
What "kills" Dlisted is that celebrity culture has become boring (especially since the pandemic started, look at right-wing Deplorable run Blind Gossip, it's a ghost town these days).
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 27, 2022 11:56 AM |
The only interesting thing about this thread was seeing that R2 had R1 blocked, but R2 was the a troll.
👏
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 27, 2022 12:13 PM |
R67 - the 'golden age' of celebrity gossip was around 2003-2010. It's been utterly boring ever since. Maybe it was the rise of social media, I don't know.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 27, 2022 12:43 PM |
Social media and nepotism killed celebrity.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | July 27, 2022 12:51 PM |
It's so bizarre how gossip spaces have become ultra-woke. On places like the Deuxmoi subreddit and ONTD especially, you can never imply any woman might have slept with Harvey Weinstein, imply any celebrity might be closeted or in a bearding relationship, or criticize any person of color in any real way without being banned or attacked.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 27, 2022 1:26 PM |
It’s become okay to be mean and a bully as long as you’re attacking the correct target. The people on ONTD think the old days of that site (when posters made fun of celebrities non stop) were shamefully horrible. But now it’s okay to jump down the throat of a fellow poster who dares to post something outside the acceptable point of view. I think it’s an interesting switch-up even though it has resulted in incredibly boring commentary.
I much prefer the everybody’s a target mentality of DL. It’s very harsh at times but so much better and freer than the thought police of other sites. I also prefer the anonymity of DL which prevents cliques from forming
by Anonymous | reply 72 | July 27, 2022 1:44 PM |
Pretty much sums up why this cultural era is so scolding and lacking in any kind of fun or humor.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 27, 2022 2:11 PM |
[quote]The comment section has become a complete Frau echo chamber à la Joe My God.
The uniformity of opinion and hostility to any that differ is worthy of The Daily Wire or Newsmax.
(Although Joe My God isn't full of fraus.)
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 27, 2022 3:29 PM |
I loved it back in the hey day. Michael K was so fucking funny without trying hard. His hot slut of the day posts were genius - sometimes he would put random animals in IIRC. He was naturally very funny and had a unique voice that was self-deprecating and bitchy and silly. A true gem.
Would have loved to see him react to this….
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | July 27, 2022 3:37 PM |
R72 That's why, for the most part, I refuse to use a name on here. The more names are used, the more high school clique this place gets, so for the most part I just make something up or just post anonymously. I love the snark on here. If this place ever lost it's snark, it would be just another place on the internet that I do not go to
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 27, 2022 3:46 PM |
I was recently thinking about what makes Datalounge somewhat different from other forums, and I do think a big part of it is the general anonymity of users.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | July 27, 2022 3:57 PM |
[Quote] On places like the Deuxmoi subreddit and ONTD especially, you can never imply any woman might have slept with Harvey Weinstein,
I had not been on the DM reddit in a while and didn't realize they had to restrict comments when the Johnny/Amber trial started. But yes, they don't let you talk about an actors sexuality because of the stupid stan wars.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 28, 2022 3:03 AM |
The 2000s were the best days of celebrity gossip. I remember the late 90s had the Diva Jill Stempel, who kicked things off. A lot of her stuff was BS, but it was entertaining. Then Ted Casablanca and Lainey. The latter was completely different than now. She was a hater and un pc, but once she started getting TV hosting gigs, she completely changed. Like Dlisted, her blog started to be written by other people who were SJWs too. I think there really aren’t celebrities anymore worth reporting about.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 28, 2022 3:22 AM |
Hot Slut of the Day! was so much fun, and it could be anything: a messy A-lister, some rando from a viral video, somebody's toes hanging out of a shoe, a weird-looking cat, a discontinued breakfast cereal ...
by Anonymous | reply 80 | July 28, 2022 4:18 AM |
I also loved his obsessive crushes on the most random of randoms, such as Irv Richards (father of Denise).
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 5, 2022 3:07 PM |
r77 The anonymity is great, however, DL is not free of toxicity.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 5, 2022 3:09 PM |
r80 r81 Pretty sure Irv Richards was Hot Slut Of The Day!
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 5, 2022 3:34 PM |
Used to love Dlisted and Michael K. He was a genius, sarcastic and hilarious writer.
I dont remember "Fug Girls" or know who PHG is though??? (I gave up when the site reformatted and it took forever to scroll through a page with pop ups etc.)
Does anyone remember one of the best posts, about "The Renewed Mind Is The Key?" I think he discovered it first and it eventually made it to mainstream media
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 5, 2022 11:01 PM |
r79, I agree. I think publicists gained a lot of control over what bloggers and gossip sites post, so the subversive nature of the reporting died out. For a while in the 2000s, celebrity gossip was really entertaining and clever.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 5, 2022 11:04 PM |
I remember the first time I went on Dlisted's 'Open Post,' I thought it was going to be fun, but it was full of the most mundane of frau nonsense.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 5, 2022 11:37 PM |
Also strange how the site is okay with casual homophobia.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 5, 2022 11:40 PM |
r87 Not really. These kind of sites thrive on frau support. (wait for troll to come and scream, women absolutely are not homophobic, it's str8 men are worse.) but a purely gay gossip site would cause far too many to clutch their pearls.
The DL slipped about that time, too. There's certain celebs of the moment you can't dare share gossip on because they're elevated to sainthood when they're hot and everyone will ignore the fucking elephant in the room. Of course when it comes to light, all these bitches will be like I knew it the entire time.
As is human nature.
Like the expanse of the internet killed newsgroups, yes, so did social media kill forums and sites like these.
It's not that the tech specifically killed them but rather the greater influx of traffic... it's akin to how most of the gay ghettos have young, str8, hipsters living in them. And that is not to say this is merely a str8 vs gay matter. And liuke damn, the sheer amount of inane shit I have to clarify and explain because there's going to be some hurt fefes or someone had a different experience, or, or, or
it's exhausting.
What really killed the scene is there's no one single gossip icon left... someone that thrived and lived on this shit that could drop a tip to, they would actually investigate before printing or rejecting. Or if you were a name, you could sit down to clear the air... in an interview that was going to be hard hitting than anything primetime could muster.
and of course, the u.s. catching up the extremes of the u.k. with lawsuit culture.
and honestly, 'sources' can't really be anonymous anymore. . . more people, more people saying stupid shit.
Now "we" can be anonymous but we still gotta play it like a game of telephone
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 88 | August 6, 2022 12:13 AM |
r84 PHG = "Prince Hot Ginge" a.k.a. Prince Harry.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 6, 2022 3:09 AM |
Irv Richards definitely achieved Hot Slut status!
2008 was truly the twillingt of an Era....
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 90 | August 6, 2022 3:18 AM |
Pop culture is too unexciting these days. What would a blog like the one Dlisted used to be skewer? Here today gone tomorrow influencers and social media "celebrities"? Because 97% of the people who are "hot" these days are essentially nobodies, the rest are treated as sacred cows who are beyond reproach unless they do something truly awful that would get them cancelled. And a humorless gossip blog is either just mean and gets tiresome pretty quickly or a boring PR puff piece dispenser.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | August 6, 2022 3:34 AM |
Even though Dlisted was "popular" and "successful" by blog standards of the day, I still felt part of a truly special secret community. People outside my general age group had no clue it existed.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | August 6, 2022 3:48 AM |
^ And even within the age group it still felt very "niche."
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 6, 2022 3:51 AM |
Dlisted was the "punk" 2000's celeb gossip site.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 6, 2022 3:52 AM |
[quote]And even within the age group it still felt very "niche."
I had friends back then who had no clue about Perez even, which was way more "mainstream" than Dlisted.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 6, 2022 9:43 AM |
Gossip has become commercialized. Gossip sites, like regular press, make deals with talent agencies to not release certain stuff while gaining some access to the stars or gain other kind of favors (invitations to cool parties, free stuff, free travel and accomodations, etc.). The temptation to sell out is too big. And for eons Hollywood has used gossip mags and sites to promote movies (ooooooh, the male and female lead of this movie / TV show are dating? OOOOOH, I SIMPLY MUST KNOW MORE ... and watch the movie / TV show!). Just look at sites like Just Jared and his birthday parties.
The only "real" gossip comes from the unhinged ones who hold petty grudges and would rather see everything burned down than to make connections and build bridges. But that gossip gets quickly squashed by the fantards (how dare you telling those vicious lies!) and talent agency interns.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 6, 2022 9:57 AM |
I don't understand why he doesn't have any new posts until mid afternoon Eastern time, I know he lives in California but he has a staff of writers that could put something up earlier in the day.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | April 14, 2023 5:00 PM |
Also they are now usually a day late with their gossip. By the time it's on DListed I have seen it discussed here and other places.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | April 14, 2023 5:02 PM |
[quote]The 2000s were the best days of celebrity gossip.
No they weren’t.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | April 14, 2023 5:05 PM |
I tried listening to his podcast but he is not as funny on it as his writing is and Allison is bad. I don't know why he thinks Allison is so great.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | April 14, 2023 5:14 PM |
I probably commented elsewhere above but....I'll say it again. The fun part of what Michael K did, as well as some other sites (like the Fug Girls) was that they kinda gently made fun of the people being covered but also kinda also celebrated them. Especially someone like Phoebe Price aka Chicken Cutlets.
Now, Dlisted only does that rarely. More often than not the posts are meeting a certain quota for getting clicks and being paid. So that means at least a few posts a week about the Kuntrashians and Kan'tye. A few BRF posts. Whatever various rappers drive traffic. Most of the site is unrecognizable to anyone who read it 10 years ago.
I mostly check it out for the Birthday Sluts and Open Post, as there's chatter there between longtime posters. But the halycon days of Rojo Caliente and the like are long gone.
And most of the other writers at Dlisted suck horrifically.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | April 14, 2023 5:19 PM |
I realize Harry has lost the hot, but he never refers to him as PHG any more.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | April 14, 2023 5:21 PM |
All opinions about the BRF or his wife aside, I think that PHG shtick was about Harry being single and as soon as he wasn't Michael stopped using that.
He also never talks about Rojo Caliente any more.
I remember a while back some Twitter warriors were complaining about how "mean" some of the Dlisted and Fug Girls posts from that era were - but most of the people discussed were star fuckers and glad to be mentioned. Or it was someone we would have never known otherwise (the "Excuse My Beauty" trans lady).
Now it seems like gossip is more about people who are already famous (if for dubious reasons). I miss the somewhat comical/whimsical take that Dlisted had on those people.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | April 14, 2023 5:38 PM |
The fraus on there have sucked the joy out of it. Don’t ever say anything "negative" about Dylan Mulvaney types, or else. But casual homophobia seems to be fine, though.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | April 15, 2023 1:44 AM |
I was an avid follower of Dlisted until Allison and the other try-hards started writing in lieu of Michael K. I think that happened in 2012 or 2013. The site lost its mojo at that point but luckily I found Datalounge soon after to fill the void. Dlisted was hard to beat in its heyday, and the OG commenters there were witty and fun. Apparently the current group is humorless and BORING.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | April 15, 2023 2:22 AM |
When Harry and Meghan got married I commented that Meghan's hair looked messy and I was reamed out on DListed for it. Recently I saw a post about the Royal family and now it's all negative posts about Meghan. WTF? Hive mentality.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | April 15, 2023 2:38 AM |
Hate the blog and the visitors. HATE
by Anonymous | reply 109 | April 15, 2023 2:44 AM |
It is closing, last day is June 30
by Anonymous | reply 110 | June 23, 2023 7:16 PM |
Haven't read it in years.
Got sick of reading how every woman is either a slut or a whore.
Michael K had serious Mommy issues.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | June 23, 2023 7:26 PM |
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