Shingy, AOL's secret weapon for staying hip, is leaving

[Gyrofrog]

@Ryuthrowsstuff

He seems to be a hang over from an early web bubble. When many highly funded web companies that no longer exist were hiring artists to kind of stand around and make them look revolutionary. Sort of like how they’d buy fancy furniture, Foosball tables or art to hang on the walls for “culture”.

You’ve just described the Eden Matrix.

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@tgarretteaton

People like this guy are amazing… I feel they must have existed in every age, somehow inserting themselves into power structures and coasting along like remoras until they’re caught.

I audibly chortled at “remoras.” We’ve got one of these guys right now and I can’t figure out what he does, exactly, beyond drawing universal disdain from everyone who’s had to work with him…

@KathyPartdeux

Looks like someone just put their nephew … on the payroll.

…and I suspect this is exactly what happened with the guy I’m complaining about.

@stryxvaria

I can’t imagine that anyone under the age of 40 or so can appreciate how insane things went during the run-up of the tech bubble, say 1998 - 2000.

I’ve previously related my experience with Netpliance…