Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
Grimace, an historical McDonalds character who—latest advertising blitz apart—could also be so unknown amongst youthful readers they’ll really have to seek the advice of an internet site to seek out out who the hell he’s, has for a really very long time had an intensive web page up over on the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week, at the very least, when McDonalds paid the positioning’s homeowners to briefly exchange Grimace’s biography with a paid commercial.
Let’s be clear up entrance: the unique biography, written by critic, writer and digital marketer Nathan Steinmetz, aka Humanstein, isn’t essentially the most necessary piece of historic data on the web. Doing precisely what it wanted to do, it served as an introduction to the character himself, earlier than additionally (this was the true spotlight) delving into real-life issues like Malaysian Happy Meals, data of his public appearances and a listing of the individuals who had voiced the character and worn the purple go well with.
Or it did, till it began wanting like this as a substitute:
At time of writing the web page had been utterly hijacked, Nathan’s analysis wiped and changed with reminders that individuals can go purchase a Grimace meal at McDonalds and play a online game based mostly on the character. The wiki’s changelog says the swap is momentary, working “for the length of this [advertising] campaign”, whereas a small footnote on the backside of the web page merely says:
At collaborating McDonald’s for a restricted time. While provides final. Grimace’s Birthday Meal consists of selection of 10 laptop. McNuggets® or Big Mac® © 2023 McDonald’s. ADVERTISEMENT: This web page is sponsored by McDonald’s.
It doesn’t matter how necessary a wiki web page on Grimace might or might not be, that is some bullshit! The concept that wiki pages, even ones on McDonalds characters, are by some means up on the market undermines the complete level of them current as historic data (nonetheless tenuous they could be), and is a brilliant shitty search for Fandom, an organization we final wrote about a number of months again after they purchased a bunch of common online game web sites then promptly fired a bunch of individuals.
“I think that wikis are a bastion of the old internet where people get together to share information simply for the sake of it”, Nathan tells me. “Unfortunately that is not directly monetizable. While The Grimace is a very silly page for this to whole thing to be about, I think it probably sets a really bad precedent that an IP holder can approach Fandom or whoever and have user generated content basically ‘suppressed’ and replaced with a press release.”
“I get how dramatic it sounds to talk about the suppression of Grimace lore, but just about every pop culture property has thousands of hours of work put into these wikis” he says, whereas including he’s “not that avid of a wiki editor” (“I mostly just edit this one particular page as kind of a bit because I think it’s funny to be a Grimace Expert”).
“But I am an avid wiki reader and have half a dozen bookmarked. If you want the rundown on the continuity of Doctor Who audio dramas or all the pop culture references in an episode of the Venture Bros you pretty much have to go to a Fandom wiki. I think these wikis are an incredibly important resource and it just feels really gross that any company can step in and do that.”
“Also as a note it’s pretty wild that jokes I’ve written about a milkshake monster have probably been read in a McDonald’s boardroom or whatever.”
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