REPORT: Jalopnik.com Buys Huge Shipment of Profane Words, Exclamation Marks
Popular automotive website Jalopnik.com has ordered huge quantities of profane words and exclamation points, according to its reports from its suppliers.
The website recently promised to return to its roots as a defense against the huge growth and financial success it has enjoyed over the past several years. “We’re too profitable right now. We need to put up content that scares off most of our readers,” said an unnamed source at the website’s head office.
MetaCars spoke with several people who view the site. “They’re going through ‘hell yeahs’ and f-bombs at an almost unbelievable rate. They still post the same press releases, they just seem to be paraphrased by frat boys,” said Reverend Thomas Richardson, a regular Jalopnik reader.
Jalopnik’s big buy will have untold effects on other automotive websites. Editors at the CarsRulez blog told MetaCars that they’ll “have to be clean for a month. We simply can’t find anyone with profanity left. Jalopnik has cornered the market on it.”
Peter M. Gazzetti of PMG Analysts thinks there could be collateral effects, too. “I suspect Jalopnik’s next move will be to publish with Caps Lock on. But only time will tell.”