TR Contest: A New Topless Robot Slogan
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?This weekend’s contest comes to us from Scooter Atreides, who says:
Not that there’s anything wrong with “Nerd News, Humor, And Self-Loathing”, but if there was to be a new TR slogan–what should it be?
I’ve been trying to avoid self-referential contests — entries in contest about TR or me are fine, but whole contests seems impossibly self-indulgent — but this seems like it could be fun. Maybe it’ll even be insightful for me to see how you guys really think of Topless Robot. At the very least you can take a lot of cheap shots at me and the site and make me cry the entire weekend.
One entry per person, the taglines should be pretty damn short, and the contest will end at 12:01 am on Monday, June 14th. Oh, and I won’t be changing the real tagline unless someone writes something that’s actually more accurate than “Nerd news, humor and self-loathing” and still short enough to run in the space currently allotted. So I wouldn’t hold your breath, but you’re welcome to try. Have a great weekend, and again, I’d keep those umbrellas and raincoats on you at all times. Just in case.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.