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I’m not sure why, but I’m really delighted that the new gay.com appears to be tanking. It’s alarmingly slow, the interface looks really corporate, and chat rooms that used to have hundreds of people in them now have maybe a few dozen.
To coincide with the relaunch, there’s a new Mr Gay.com event happening. Today is, I think, the last day to vote in the first round of the competition. There are fifty contestants in each of five categories: Silver Fox, Muscle Stud, Boy Next Door, Jock, and Community Leader. The contestants themselves picked what category they were entered in, and the whole thing was first-come, first-served, which means this is clearly going to fail.
Mind you, if I were going to post pictures of myself on a gay website that was in the middle of a big relaunch, I might take the effort to, say, take pictures with something besides my phone. Or take pictures that weren’t blurry. Or maybe check the definitions of Silver Fox and Community Leader before I nominated myself to be in those categories.
Similarly, if I were a major media corporation that was relaunching my website with an interactive jpeg pageant, I might screen the contestants to make sure that they weren’t totally hideous. And I would spell-check their bios, too.
But, you know, I’m not the average gay.com visitor. And I’m certainly not the gay.com marketing department.
So, let’s have a looksee at some of the nominees in the Silver Fox category, shall we?
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Today: gay twink sites 300 dpi, badabum cha cha translation, dead jock, “oliver north boy choir”
Yesterday: laura palmer costume, dream hunk naked, david garrard college, gloog red tub
Right now I’m about to do my radio show. Across the hall an a cappella group is practicing and it sounds like needles. Wimpy, wimpy needles.
