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Remember MySpace? No, not the new one, but the old, horrible one, the acne of the Internet, the one with Tom’s dumb face plastered across it? Ever wonder what happened to him? He makes fun of poor people on Twitter.
It went down like this: some nobody makes fun of MySpace imploding as a business, which it did. Maybe out of line—but when you’re the co-founder of MySpace and are willingly on Twitter, you need to assume people are going to make fun of you for being the guy who co-founded MySpace. Tom shoots back by not only bragging about how rich he is, but by making fun of the fact that the other guy has to work for a living, “hoping for a half-day off.”
Let’s think. Tom is a rich man. Tom doesn’t have to work another day in his life, because he sold MySpace before it collapsed into its own festering GIF abscess. In fact, it doesn’t seem like he’s done much since offloading MySpace to Rupert Murdoch for a stupidly inflated sum. He’s still just the guy who made MySpace. He seems okay with it. In fact, his avatar is still that dumb, “I just co-founded the ugliest site on the Internet” shit-eating portrait of him in front of a whiteboard. The same picture from the MySpace days. The same picture plastered across his Hindenburg social network that became popular on the backs of working schlubs like the one he just publicly demeaned on Twitter. Ha Ha! Poor People! Enjoy working for a living, peasant scum!
Listen Tom: it’s cool that you spray painted a turd to look like gold and sold it to a senile Australian man for half a billion dollars. Good on you. But part of being a lucky, rich guy who is set for life because of ordinary people means not making fun of ordinary people. Ordinary people who are still working, trying to make something of themselves, rather than resting on a sack of cash earned over something universally reviled. Civilization regrets the thing that made you rich. And bragging about being rich is never cool. Making fun of people for having jobs is never cool. Your picture isn’t cool anymore. Your Wikipedia entry isn’t cool—”Anderson had a cameo appearance in the 2009 American drama-comedy film Funny People starring Adam Sandler.” You’re making “winning” jokes and it’s almost 2013. You are MySpace personified.
In conclusion, fuck you, and don’t be an asshole to people who aren’t rich. And change your picture. [Betabeat]
A Guy Accused Tom from MySpace of Being the Father of His Girlfriend's Baby
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New MySpace Is Now Open to the Public
the real question is where is Myspace Kid these days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7wWC0tfJZY
has he transformed into Facebook Kid
Holy crap!
You mad bro?
Ah, if only Mr Biddle was on G+ he’d understand exactly why Tom’s doing this:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112063946124358686266/posts/djwLPeUkmwB
Hatchet Job
Bullshit.
You give out crap then expect to get some back even if you are a poor guy giving a rich guy crap.
Polo tapia just didn’t realise you can mock rich people who are still running companies, they have to be nice and worry about customers but mock someone who’s made their money and its a different ball game.
This article should be headlined: polo tapia is a prick.
The nerve of him. He should have apologised profusely for his missteps. Shame! Shame I say!
Is he still Myspace Tom if he sold Myspace over 7 years ago?
Misleading title, and a dumb article. It was quite a good comeback by Tom in my eyes.
I agree. If you can’t take it, you shouldn’t give it out.
Fair enough rip the piss out of Tom all you want, none of us have any love for the guy after all but give him his dues he is laughing all the way to the bank.
The thing is Sam the screencap of Tom’s comment you used to prove your point – “…fear over instagram’s terms change is ridiculous…” – is little removed from your last article http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/stop-whining-about-your-personal-data-on-instagram-you-little-whiny-baby/
Stones and glass houses and all that.
Just saying…
Another poignant, well researched, thought provoking piece from the amazing Sam Biddle. I really wish Gizmodo would stop letting this chump force his opinions on us.
In fact I’d rather they paid myspace Tom to write something interesting. Not that he needs the money.
Honestly – I’m struggling with all the editorial ‘hate’ i’m seeing on this site. Am i just missing the joke? What happened to all the decent future folk i used to trade sandwiches for mind altering substances with back in the glory days of the printed press?
Agreed. I have noticed a slight shift in the editorial. A little more profanity here and there as well.
I suppose we have to remember that it’s a commercial site and one of the ways of increasing page clicks etc can be to have a more aggressive and controversial style.
It is worth noting that outside office hours much of the content, this as a prime example, is auto-syndicated from the US site. So I’d suggest it’s more of a US editorial policy.
Touché
He may have a sheet load of money but he feeds off his dwindling ‘fame’ by getting reactions like this. Stop following him.
What a knob jockey!
Im all for good banter but what a prick
Sam Biddle, you are a dick! Shame you’re on the US site and can’t see the hate… but the commenters over there give you the same amount of stick, yet you still write up such hateful shit.
He’s got a point though. If he’d left of the personal put down at the end it would have been the perfect response really.
Usually love this site but this is one of the worst articles I have ever read here. Tom was well within his rights to shoot the guy down. Biased dog shit.
Am I the only one that fails to see what Polo’s tweet has to do with Tom’s? Not only do I think Tom is right, but he wasn’t insulting Instagram or the people that run it which one would assume from reading Polo’s tweet (I cringe every time I type that word). It’s just seems like a random stab at Tom and so he deserved the come back.
It helps to know your target audience and judging by many comments I see posted here then Gizmodo readers aren’t always typically empathetic of the poor man over the successful wealthy man.
Surprise surprise…gizmodo is the only site NOT siding with Tom……
Here’s another perspective: MySpace was actually brilliant… compared to facebook (imo facebook has a horrible counter intuitive interface). You could customise your page, add music and video and give people a flavour of who you were without the need to provide a banal monologue of what you we’re doing. I was sad to see it fail because through it I made friends all around the world (before travelling to various countries and meeting them). It was a wonderful toold for being social. Facebook in comparison has no mechanism for meeting new like minded people and is designed as a “look at me” site, which is something that leaves me cold. Bring back old MySpace in time for the eventual fall of facebook (they all rise and fall, so i’m not trying to be controversial with that statement).
Tom sounds like a dude. I cannot think of a more succinct, or appropriate answer. I’d be delighted with myself for selling a company for over half a billion dollars! Just because you’d like to; and haven’t, don’t be bitter.
I work too – but I’m not going to be a little bitch because he doesn’t have to. I’d rather salute the man, tip my hat and say ‘nice-one Tom!’