I think you’re still underestimating how stressful this sort of thing is for writers.
I totally believe you have good intent here and that the meetup itself will be pretty inoccuous, and were talking about it in your usual kind of “is Evan serious I dunno man let the Dankness flow!?” way, but in this case the joke fell flat and felt mean spirited. Regardless of how the meetup plays out, the opening post is written in a way that’s making a spectacle of Scott without regard to his feelings.
Being moderately internet-famous is actually really stressful, since you’re visible enough to periodically attract internet hate groups but not actually really powerful enough to do much about it. (Scott has already attracted internet hate groups and this post is basically written in their style)
(I have slightly different opinions than Jim and maybe Ben of exactly what felt wrong here. I think holding the meetup was basically fine – local meetup groups can hold random meetups about whatever. But the presentation, and the way you’re gathering questions here, seems like it’s hyping it up to Be An Internet Event that Scott will have to pay a bunch of attention to, while setting a tone that in the OP was a) bad intellectually for the reasons others have described, b) just mean)
I think you’re still underestimating how stressful this sort of thing is for writers.
I totally believe you have good intent here and that the meetup itself will be pretty inoccuous, and were talking about it in your usual kind of “is Evan serious I dunno man let the Dankness flow!?” way, but in this case the joke fell flat and felt mean spirited. Regardless of how the meetup plays out, the opening post is written in a way that’s making a spectacle of Scott without regard to his feelings.
Being moderately internet-famous is actually really stressful, since you’re visible enough to periodically attract internet hate groups but not actually really powerful enough to do much about it. (Scott has already attracted internet hate groups and this post is basically written in their style)
(I have slightly different opinions than Jim and maybe Ben of exactly what felt wrong here. I think holding the meetup was basically fine – local meetup groups can hold random meetups about whatever. But the presentation, and the way you’re gathering questions here, seems like it’s hyping it up to Be An Internet Event that Scott will have to pay a bunch of attention to, while setting a tone that in the OP was a) bad intellectually for the reasons others have described, b) just mean)