Learning the Hard Way

Most of us (myself included) sometimes have to learn the hard way how things we say or do can come back to bite us in the ass. Today's recipients of those who have learned the hard way that they'd messed up are Nick Denton and actor Noah Galvin. Let's start with Denton. According to what I've read on the interwebs, he's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Gawker Media due to the whole Hulk Hogan lawsuit. I've expressed my feelings about both sides in this case (there are no winners here) so there's no use rehashing that, but I will say that people should learn when you put anything and everything out in the internet, particularly when you're putting other people's business in the universe, you need to be prepared for blowblack. Putting a sex tape on the internet (that's not your own), is probably a mistake and a mistake that could have been avoided if you'd simply minded your own business.

Now on to Galvin who gave a scathing interview to NY Magazine where he badmouthed some other actors and basically called a director a pedo. If you're going to make those kind of statements to the press, you'd better be prepared to back them up. Galvin, clearly, was not since he issued an apology less than 24-hours after the story was posted. After all the bravado he expressed in the interview, he was practically cowering in his apology to everyone he said awful things about. In this day and age of the internet and 24-hour news, it's hard to say anything publicly and not have it come back to bite you. It's not just celebrities or people in the media either. Plain, every day folks have found themselves out of a job because of something stupid they Tweeted or posted about on Facebook. I read today about a guy (a Cavs fan) who Tweeted  a nasty comment about Steph Curry's family and the guy put his place of employment (a realtor or realty company) out there with the Tweet. People complained to his employer, and he was promptly fired. He wasn't a media mogul like Denton or a TV show celebrity like Galvin, yet he, like them, learned the hard way that what you say (or do) in public can come back to get you and take you down.