The Hub Is Desperate Beyond Measure
Randall, the effeminately voiced gentleman behind the “Honey Badger” viral video sensation, narrating a bit of footage from the old Jem cartoon is not news. What is news is when Randall, the effeminately voiced gentleman behind the “Honey Badger” viral video sensation, is OFFICIALLY HIRED BY HASBRO to narrate a bit of footage from the old Jem cartoon AS AN OFFICIAL PROMO SPOT FOR THE NETWORK. Holy shit. Look, Hasbro, I don’t want to tell you how to keep your fledgling TV network afloat (although airing nothing but My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic 24/7 might be a good start). But I do know there are many, many steps you have to reach before you start hiring viral video “stars” to do promos, and at least a dozen of those steps are to cancel the fucking network outright. (Via Warming Glow)
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.