One of my fave "millennial media dunks" was when I got assigned a feature about some crappy writer's mediocre book, they followed me on Twitter, and then unfollowed me a few weeks after the article dropped. So I blocked them
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I also dealt w/ this jerk who hit me up for editor connections, published a piece in the NYT magazine, & whose emails suddenly began auto-replying with "all inquiries can reach out to my agent" which is insane because I have an agent and can't even see him answering a text for me
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I've got so many stories like this. I wrote someone's metoo personal essay and they've never so much as acknowledged that I exist in the world of light (perhaps in the world of ruin it's different). I find this kind of brand behavior fascinating
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"Oliver, only you have the distance needed to tell my traumatic personal story" is the strangest solicitation I ever got, but this stuff is mother's milk to me
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