DListed's Michael K and the Demise of the Celebrity Blogger

Just that site with the methed out troll hosting sickest trolls who ever lived. Good riddance!

Used to be my favorite site.

Listen to his podcast! It’s great and he’s still so funny. By the way he has had some pretty rough retina issues so throw him a bone and listen as a thank you for all the years of great snark.

Is he really a meth head?

He's alluded to being a huge pothead.

To me the funniest thing he ever wrote involved the time that Michelle Obama met Madame Chantal Biya, the flame-haired first lady of Cameroon.

That was hilarious R6! I should visit Dlisted more often. Isn't michael K Asian?

Hi there, Perez, R1. I heard you have a big dick tatoo on your forehead. How big did you go?

Dlisted got ruined by a frau invasion in the comments section. They have the worst opinions and it's all groupthink now.

R9 yeah, that is a huge part of the decline. One of the things I like about this site is there is such a wide variety of opinions and life experiences. People aren't afraid to post unpopular opinions here.

Agreed R9 and R10.

I listened to a podcast and they were trying too hard, Alison is not funny .

Erna was banned from commenting on dlisted so it can’t be all bad.

I posted a sarcastic comment about Meghan Markle and was attacked and told I was bitter and jealous (WTF?). Ironically my comment wasn't even mean, the influx of new people there have brought the place down.

When he let Alison write articles the quality went down. J Harvey who does weekends is pretty good, but most are sad imitators.

God that article went on so long I felt like I was reading The Guardian. What does Michael K. end up saying?

Used to be every celebrity was open to ridicule, now there are untouchables that if you say something negative about them then the group think will descend upon you.

I didn't make it through the whole article either, guess they are impressed with Michael K because they are such a shitty writer

I recognized a Datalounge poster on the Taron Egerton article at DListed today because they posted the same pictures here of him looking at Hugh Jackman and Colin Firth. Maybe he's the one pushing for the Podcast.

I don't understand people who even look at the comments on DListed - who the hell cares what the commenters have to say? How could those entirely avoidable nobodies ruin the site? Go read what MK says and then there's a whole internet elsewhere

Michael K really only write the Slut of the Day and Night Crumbs now, the rest are fill ins r20

And this is why I really started to hate Lady Gaga. She knowingly used her fans to cause trouble to her perceived enemies.

[quote]In August 2016, for instance, K wrote about Lady Gaga’s casting in A Star Is Born. “Barbra Streisand just pulled out a shovel and is making her way to Judy Garland’s grave,” he wrote. “She’ll dig until she hits the casket and then she’ll open it up, get in and roll with Judy.” [bold]In response, he received an email from monstersquad@gmx.com, which read, “Hey, faggot. I saw your article about Lady Gaga today and thought I’d warn you. If you don’t stop criticizing her, this picture shows what will happen to you.” The picture was a graphic image of a double Taliban beheading[/bold].

BTW, I still applaud her for going on in the business after her career had almost ended. Doesn't mean I don't remember what a little cunt she was.

The podcast is kind of awful. I like Michael K. but I don't care about "Alison" or her spittle-filled prattle. Michael K. should just do solo episodes.

I didn't make it through the article either. I felt like it was repetitive and didn't go anywhere. I do agree that Michael K. sounds a bit like Kermit the Frog, but I think his voice is adorable.

I'll never forget when he called Dionne Warwick the Hussynator after she uttered that famous line "I got your number, hussy" on Celebrity Apprentice.

r9 What, you don't like cat pics??? There's a commenter who posts a picture of her cat in EVERY FUCKING OP. That's what dlisted is now: miserable fraus and outraged sjws.

[quote]I didn't make it through the article either. I felt like it was repetitive and didn't go anywhere.

It takes only like 3 minutes to read the whole damn thing.

lady gaga is and always has been, derivative corny pathetic shit.

Perhaps, R26, but if someone writes in circles, taking forever to finally get to their fucking point, then I checkout. Felt like I was reading something from Grampa Simpson.

I love reading, but I'm not going to waste my time reading grandiloquent, tedious prose that's the journalistic equivalent of Tristram Shandy.

That sounds like a crazy stan, r22, not like someone paid or directed by Gaga to do that. What makes you think Lady Gaga ordered them to act that way?

I miss Gawker and mostly their comment section.

I started picking up a virus from Dlisted...so I haven't been o n a long time...miss it

I still think Michael K is one of the funniest writers out there. Who cares what the commenters say? I've liked some of the guest writers more than others. When he was writing all the time he'd only occasionally use them and they were good - there was J. Harvey and I think another one. I still like the site!

Instagram basically killed the celebrity blogger.

Found it in 2007, was a firm fan until 2016, visiting a few times per week. Then his health problems and all the shitty guest blogger posts started to outnumber his. Haven't checked back in during the past 2 years.

[quote] I listened to a podcast and they were trying too hard, Alison is not funny .

Alison is talentless. Initially everyone hate her and said so. Michael K. had to step in and defend her. He then prohibited negative comments about Alison.

I found Dlisted in 2006. It used to be hilarious. It’s no longer entertaining. The problem is not the comments from Middle American women. The problem is the writing that caters and panders to those Middle American women. That’s their bread and butter.

I always liked him. I liked how he would make characters out of sometimes shitty humans, but it always seemed to have a tiny bit of affection in there, not just unfiltered cuntiness like Perez.

Prince Hot Ginge, Rojo, Chicken Cutlets, all the greatest hits.

The others are not very funny.

And the rise of YouTube personalities and Insta bloggers has killed many of the gossip sites.

Just as Kathy Griffin's act faded. Gossip is not radical any more....it's become boring and mainstream. And TMZ is now king, a virtual ambulance chaser that gets all the hits.

[quote] Isn't michael K Asian?

His father is Japanese (Kuroiwa) and his mother is Spanish. He's quite cute IMNSHO.

Sure, the comment section has evolved. But I still prefer the Dlisted comments to the Datalounge ones. The subject matter here varies greatly so it’s fun to pop out in, but Jesus Christ all the trans bashing and Asian hate is seriously fucked up. Dlisted’s commenters are maybe more filtered, but it’s less of a cesspool (haha).

Too many of dListed's current commenters should be tending to their home schooled spawn or at some hen party, instead of spending time on internet boards predominated by us liberal homos. We don't need them. We don't want them. We've had suffish!

I love Michael K and support him. I think he used to have no life because of the amount of work he put into the site, and writing everything himself. The new writers aren’t the same, but they’re not bad and still give me a laugh.

Is it groupthink to filter out racist or sexist trolls? I honestly don’t mind. That bullshit gets on my nerves.

Who's michael k? Can anyone tell me about him?

He has posted here forever, way over a decade ago he mentioned DL in the comments section of one of his posts. He used to have discussions with commenters. That is how I found DL. But like everyone else i slowly stopped going to his site as he posted less. I used to love tge site. Miss him and hope his health is ok. Agree with the poster up thread, loved Gawker too, lots of good gossip in the comments. Loved the old Defamed, too, that later merged with Gawker.

The comments section used to be the icing on the cake, but the rabid fans ruined it. It clearly went downhill after Michael let the other writers take over a few years back. Now, you say something negative about someone's favorite crush object, they go full obsessive on you, posting nonsense "points" over and over and over. And the few people who had experience in the business who would comment (you know--people who had something worth reading and add to the discussion) seem long gone. Who can blame them?

Back when the commenters were worth a shit, one of them posted this classic description of Teresa Giudice and her ugly kids:

"The female stares quizzically back at the camera surrounded by her young. Her mate, the old silverback, has just left her for another female."

DListed is not the same, but it's still worth checking out for Michael K's occasional posts. I cry-laugh at the stuff he writes. This from last week:

While daring the clouds to rain on his glamour parade, Extra Miller (typo and it stays) served FACE! BEAUTY! FACE! and baggy ribbed condom (for all our pleasures) couture at the Paris premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald last night. Wikipedia tells me that Ezra Miller is Jewish, Dutch, and German, but bitch please. I don’t need to see his 23andMe results to tell you that he’s clearly 98% Tilda Swinton, 1.5% Grace Jones, and 0.5% Dalek.

You’re probably looking at Ezra’s look and thinking, “I didn’t know that Darth Vader designed a line of religious wear for Uniqulo.” But that corrugated butt plug dress-thing is by Moncler, the Urban Decay lipstick is from the shoe box filled with old make-up you keep from your high school Emo days, and the cheekbones are by Gillette. I just wish that Ezra’s look existed when I was kid (and was sold for 1/1000th the price at Kmart), because it’s the perfect thing to wear to the slumber party of a brat you can’t stand. Because 1: They can’t put itching powder in your sleeping bag. And 2: If those little assholes ever get on your last nerve, you can easily sashay away from the party in a quick second. No awkward packing!

His writeups about Celebrity Big Brother UK made me holler.

Please post more favorite Michael K posts! He's new to me but I'm loving him.

R49 Any Rojo Caliente post is gold.

When Cynthia Nixon and Rojo got married:

Duchess Kate and Prince William’s tiny little vow exchange in that small church has been knocked down to the second most important royal wedding of this century now that Rojo Caliente and her ginger queen are married! Even though I haven’t even seen one picture from the ceremony and they could’ve gotten married in the break room of a Subaru dealership for all I know, I can still say this it was the most beautiful and greatest wedding of all-time! I was going to pour a little ginger beer in my morning coffee anyway, but now I have a real reason to do so. Cynthia Nixon’s rep tells People that after being engaged for 3 years, she can now say the words millions of people wish they could say, Rojo Caliente is her lawfully wedded wife!

“On May 27, 2012, Cynthia Nixon and her girlfriend, Christine Marinoni, were legally married in the state of New York. Nixon wore a custom dress by Carolina Herrera.”

Cynthia’s rep might say “On May 27, 2012 Cynthia Nixon and Rojo Caliente were legally married” but I say, “On May 27, 2012 the sanctity of marriage got a ginger breath of life!!!!!!”

This is the reason why the sun shines on all of us in NYC today. Not because there’s no clouds or anything. But because the humanized form of one its rays, Rojo Caliente, married the woman she loves. Congingerlations to our new reigning ginger gayelle queens and my favorite couple next to vodka and soda. This news calls for a soundtrack!

This Hall-of-Famer is IMO his all-time greatest post (for "cuntender" alone):

Mimi and CoCo better step their meaty pussy game up, because a cuntender has arrived out of absolutely nowhere and is threatening to steal away their title as masters of the suffocating crotch.

Chris Christie, the Governor of New Jersey and possible presidential candidate, played in a celebrity softball game for charity at Yankee Stadium yesterday and he answered the question, “What would it look like if a camel and a moose held hooves while watching a sunset together?” Chris Christie’s got the entire pedicure department of a zoo up in his baseball pants. That’s a camel toe/moose knuckle situation that could stop traffic on a bridge.

Usually, when you see someone with a crotch that looks like a tightly-wrapped soft fortune cookie, you take a picture for your Camel Toe and Moose Knuckle Hall of Fame scrapbook and then you wonder if anybody told them about the tangled mess that’s happening down below. Maybe somebody did tell Chris Christie that those tight baseball pants made his balls look like two newborn hamsters spooning. Maybe he didn’t care. Maybe his crotch looking like donkey lips blowing a kiss is his way of throwing shade at the Democrats.

If Chris Christie don’t care, he should put that on his campaign poster, because being proud of his juicy camel toe game is a selling point.

^Forgot to add, and the comment section to the Chris Christie post is killer as well. I must brag, I posted some good stuff in there myself.

ONTD is still around, unfortunately

His CBB writeup from the 2014 season with Gary Busey, Leslie Jordan, and Frenchy Morgan:

The spit, cum, pigeon shit and half-broken Ikea dowels that hold together the walls of the Celebrity Big Brother UK house are trying to keep it together, but it’s only a matter of time before they completely lose it while trying to contain all the throbbing mega servings of talent, prestige and perfection in there. The Detective La Toya in me thinks this season’s casting decisions are all part of an insurance scheme. Channel 5 knows that if they shove that much status and class into one house, the walls won’t be able to take it for long and they’ll blow right off. Then Channel 5 can collect the studio owners insurance money. I’m on to you, Channel 5.

The 14th season of CBB UK started up again last night and while assembling the cast, Channel 5 and the producers really reached high up into the galaxy to grab the brightest and biggest stars. The all-star A-list cast is led by Gary Busey and it includes the French dew drop from Rock of Love 2 Frenchy, Stephanie Pratt, Kelly Brook’s piece David McIntosh, Edele Lynch from B*witched, Leslie Jordan (Leslie Jordan, has it come to this?!) and a bunch of hos I don’t know.

Do Brits even know who Frenchy is? Whores like me know who Frenchy is, because she’s done pizza porn, Rock of Love 2 and a few other Vh1 shows, but I didn’t think she was known at all in the UK. What am I saying? Of course you Brits know who this jewel of France is. Duchess Kate has said many times that Frenchy, the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette, is her style and beauty icon.

If I had to put my weekly weed money on a winner, I’d put it all on Frenchy. The game will end in less than 10 hours and Frenchy will be the last one standing. Because as soon as she gets completely naked (which she will if she hasn’t already) and reveals her natural goddess body to the house, the houseguests will immediately pass out and will have to be rushed to the hospital to be treated for exposure to potent amounts of sheer beauty. Frenchy for the win!

Dlisted loved to feature Z list model Phoebe Price, kind of the younger version of Brenda Dickson.

Phoebe's better known name on Dlisted: Chicken Cutlets.

[bold]Oh, I Do Love A Good Crown Snatching[/bold]

Being a gracious loser is so overrated and life’s too short to not snatch a crown right off of a trick’s head. The runner-up of Miss Amazonas 2015 knows what I’m talking about and when she lost the main prize on Friday in Brazil, she won the title of Miss Fuck It 2015 when she yanked the crown off of the winner’s head.

The Guardian says that when Carol Toledo won the title of Miss Amazonas 2015, the other beauty queens put on manufactured smiles and pretended to be happy, but not the runner-up Sheislane Hayalla (that’s Portuguese for “Stay in your lane, bitch“). Sheislane hugged Carol at first, but then she couldn’t resist the urge to show those judges that she’s the real winner by displaying grace and elegance. After Carol Toledo was crowned, Sheislane Hayalla pulled her crown off, threw it on the floor and sashayed away while screaming something in Portuguese as the contestant in yellow clapped for her. I like that queen in yellow. She is the kind of friend who will hold your purse when you need to fight a bitch and fix your lipstick for you afterward.

Sheislane later apologized in a video and on Facebook, but said she didn’t regret crown-snatching a trick, because she wanted to show everyone that money shouldn’t be able to buy you everything. Sheislane believes Carol’s win was bought.

“I wanted to express my disapproval of the actions in the preparations for Miss Amazonas 2015. I do not regret having protested. I believe I have planted change in this great contest. I wanted something clean and honest.”

Well, Sheislane could be removed as runner-up and Carol is going on to represent her state in the Miss Brazil pageant, so I don’t know what kind of change she’s talking about. Maybe she means that next year pageant officials will Super Glue that crown onto the head of the chick who bought it so her rival can’t rip it off. I do love a good crown-snatching and I want to slow clap while giving Sheislane a standing ovation, but I can’t. That was some sloppy work. She really should’ve trained with Miss Wig Snatcher Brazil 2009. When you snatch a trick’s crown, you need to silently creep up on her like a ninja and snatch that tiara and her hair in one swoop before disappearing into the darkness.

[GIF of Miss Gay Brazil Wig Snatch Thing]

YES! That is how it’s done. Scalp that bitch and leave her practically bald.

On the site this AM....another Ezra Miller piece.

"To me, Ezra is serving up The Crystal Enchantress of the Ice (aka Johnny Weir) who’s got a Robert Smith look-alike contest to participate in at 8:30 and a holiday party to get to at 9:00. Or he looks like Tilda Swinton on her way to Whole Foods in a casual ensemble after scrawling her grocery list on her palms in her native alien language. Either or."

"Here’s more of Ezra looking like a unicorn farted in his eyes at last night’s premiere. I threw in pictures of Jude Law in Adrien Brody cosplay, an embalmed Johnny Depp looking thrilled to be there, and others. Again, I don’t know why Ezra’s castmates even bother showing up when they know very well he’s going to show them up in the glamour department."

Why was Erna banned from dlisted?

R59 I assume you ARE Erna.

No one else has to ask.

The problem with blogs like D-Listed and Joey My God is their comment section using Discqus. I don't mind the social media part where people form like minded friendships and you can as easily scoll past their "oh, gurlfriend! How was your day today? Did your fibromyalgia flare up again?" persona chit-chats. What I mind is the desperation for "likes" or "thumbs up" and instead of posting your actual opinion you post something that gets more "likes" or "thumbs up". Or getting worked up that the ones attacking you get more "likes" and "thumbs up" than you. Social media really breeds this desperate need for validation where you and your own opinion isn't enough and you simply must be liked or get a "thumbs up" feedback from as many people as possible, because only then you feel worthy.

Daily Mail kind of stole his act. Throwing shade and side eye at celebrities. The only thing that's missing is DM being able to laugh at itself.