John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars has inspired the latest meme: “It’s a metaphor!”
In the first The Fault in Our Stars clip, Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) explains his metaphor to Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley). “It’s a metaphor, see? You put the thing that does the killing right between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you. A metaphor.”
But you can’t say something as infinitely quotable as that and not expect it to end up on Tumblr. And so, the “It’s a metaphor” meme was born. Here are eleven of our favourites.
Elgort and Woodley are joined in The Fault in Our Stars by Nat Wolff as Isaac, Willem Dafoe as Peter Van Houten, and Laura Dern and Sam Trammell as Hazel’s parents. The first trailer premiered earlier this year. A second trailer will be arriving in theatres this Friday with another 20th Century Fox film, The Other Woman, starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and Kate Upon.
The Fault in Our Stars will open in theatres June 6, 2014 in the United States.
You may’ve clicked an ad before getting to read this article. You may be seeing one just below this paragraph. Ads are usually a pain; sometimes they show dumb stuff, and a lot of the time they just get in the way of the clean, simple reading experience you deserve.
Here’s the sad truth: Advertising has to be annoying in order for it to generate revenue. Advertisers want to make sure you’re going to see the ad, or else they’re not going to pay for us to run it. So if we want to make money, we need to make sure you see it.
Making matters worse, all these annoyances don’t even earn us much. Online advertising dollars just suck. A brief lesson in the economics: A publisher will makes $X for everyone 1,000 page views, and that dollar amount is called the CPM. For the ads that annoy you most, we make about $6 for every 1,000 people who see the ad in America. This means that an advertiser with an ad values you, the individual reader, at $0.006. For the standard ads that don’t annoy you, we make a $2 CPM if we’re lucky.
We’ve done our best to balance the number of ads that appear with the fact that Hypable costs a surprisingly large amount of money to run, but we know you want fewer ads. We also know you want other features on Hypable (an app is the most requested feature) and more content. We also like to think that you’d be interested in supporting us.
So, what can we do to grow the site and give you a better experience? Today we’re beginning to explore the possibility of launching a Patreon.
Patreon is like Kickstarter, but it’s geared towards artists who share their work online (those who write, produce podcasts, create YouTube videos, etc). Supporters can “pledge” an amount to the creator via Patreon, and in exchange the creator can give you benefits. I love the idea of Patreon and the power it gives to creators and their supporters. I’ve launched two of them for podcasts I run and it’s been inspiring to see people supporting them. It’s a breath of fresh air for someone like me, who has had to rely on advertising revenue until Patreon came along.
Hypable is interested in launching a Patreon that will give supporters numerous, exclusive benefits like a completely ad-free site and deeper interactions with our writing team. Yes, you read that right: Zero ads. It’ll be the cleanest, fastest, most beautiful Hypable you’ve ever seen.
The few dollars you pledge per month will earn us way more than the ads we force on you. And here’s the thing: The money raised via Patreon will be going directly to our writers. This is a very important part of this Patreon because I believe you want to see the writers receive the money they deserve for their time. I do, too.
Our Patreon, should we see enough interest from our readers and we decide to create one, will allow us to do so much more for you than just take away the ads. We will be able to focus on less clickbait-y, news-of-the-day content, and write deeper features which’ll be available to everyone, whether you’re a Patron or not. When we know that a certain amount of financial support is coming into the site, we won’t have to rush around, always looking for the next thing that can generate some quick pageviews and ad dollars (although quick and accurate news coverage will remain a top priority for us).
We have a survey for you to take to help us gauge your interest. This’ll help us figure out what to price it at, exactly how many people are interested in joining us, and what features we should include.
We have a beautiful site, wonderful writers, and an amazing community. What we need now is financial assistance to help us give our team what they deserve, which in turn will help us grow.
The incomparable Samuel L. Jackson has given us the Game of Thrones recap we never knew we needed.
The new video arrives a few weeks after the truly extraordinary finale of Game of Thrones season 6. As fans’ hearts finally begin to fall back into normal rhythm, Jackson swoops in with a gloriously uncensored review of the series’ highlights.
“Okay newbie, we’ve only got a few minutes and a lot to cover, so listen up,” Jackson begins, fast-forwarding through the credits to begin at the beginning. The actor urges his audience not to get distracted by the promise of dragons, and to focus on more important issues — like the weather.
Jackson’s Game of Thrones recap is surprisingly light on actual spoilers, avoiding specific discussion of the fates of Ned Stark, Joffrey Baratheon, and Jon Snow. Even the epic and gory Red Wedding is succinctly described — “Let’s just say that some wedding invitations, you shouldn’t accept,” Jackson says.
The video is also sprinkled with hilarious observations delivered in Samuel L. Jackson’s unmistakable drawl. Daenerys suffers from “mo’ power, mo’ problems,” while Tyrion is “a Lannister and a lush, but don’t hold that against him.” Arya works on “her revenge dance,” and Bran receives perhaps the most accurate synopsis of all.
“Bran?” Jackson muses. “Bran tripping.”
Jackson’s recap concludes before reaching most of the events of Game of Thrones season 6, but he’s quite aware of what he’s missing.
“All of this is nothing compared to what we didn’t have a chance to get into,” he promises, feigning ire when he senses that his audience is interested not in politics or power plays, but “these fucking dragons.”
“Here you go!” Jackson yells, over footage of the massive Drogon landing beside Daenerys in the season 6 finale. “Here you fucking go! Are you happy now?”
Even for celebrities, ex-boyfriends / girlfriends are tough to deal with. Ex-couple Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris are one of those pairs who are having a hard time putting their ‘ship behind them.
This morning People Magazine and TMZ learned that Taylor had secretly penned Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s summer hit “This Is What You Came For,” citing a rep for Ms. Swift. It turns out Swift has been credited on the song under a pseudonym: Nils Sjoberg. According to TMZ, “during their relationship, Taylor wrote the song, sat down at a piano and did a demo into her iPhone. She sent it to Calvin, who loved it. They both went into a studio and did a full demo with Taylor on vocals and Calvin doing the beat. They both knew the song would be a hit, but Taylor wrote it for Calvin and both agreed it was a bad idea to let the world know they collaborated as a couple … it would overshadow the song.”
So Harris did the final version with Rihanna, and the song became a major hit as soon as it dropped in late April. But problems began to arise on the day of its release, when Harris spoke with Ryan Seacrest on his radio show. “Will you do a collaboration with your girlfriend [Taylor Swift]?” Seacrest asked. “You know we haven’t even spoken about it. I can’t see it happening though.”
TMZ says Swift was not pleased with Harris’ remarks, and their source describes this incident as the “breaking point” in their relationship.
Wednesday morning, Harris went off about it on Twitter once People and TMZ reported all the details. The artist revealed that Swift sings on the song, and called her out for continuing to take swipes at him despite having new boyfriend Tom Hiddleston. Brilliantly, he tells the world that he refuses to be dragged through the dirt like Katy Perry was:
And she sings on a little bit of it too 🙃 Amazing lyric writer and she smashed it as usual https://t.co/vW3yGOIJit
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