Blogs You Love To Hate

The Day Lee Adventures had a post recently that was titled "Blogs You Love To Hate." I found it referenced in posts by Harvey (IMAO version) and Harvey (Bad Example version).

Here's the quick and dirty version of the list:

10. The "Oh I'm So Goth I Think I Shall Off Myself. But First...Let Me Annoy You Daily with How Much I Hate Life and Love Black" Blog.
9. The Fanatic
8. The Inside Joke Secret Handshake Blog
7. The "Ms. or Mr. Popularity" Blog
6. The WAHM or SAHM Blogger (work at home mom or stay at home mom)
5. The King Of Action Adventure Movie Dorks
4. The Gossip Hound
3. The Friday Night Fights Blog - This is the kind of blog that arguments are started on, which never
2. The Keep-Up-With-Jonsie-Blog
1. The Meme Mime

I started reading this and, like Harvey, I found an item a little too close for comfort. Then I kept reading, and found more and more.

Turns out, this is a Blog People Love To Hate:

10. The "Oh I'm So Goth I Think I Shall Off Myself. But First...Let Me Annoy You Daily with How Much I Hate Life and Love Black" Blog.
    This kind of blog is full of bright and cheery posts doom and gloom, and typically is mostly devoid of color (usually all black, or darn close to it). Oh, doest no one love thee? Ack. No one cares. Slit your wrists already.

Okay, this doesn't apply to me. I don't think. Yes, sometimes the humor is black, but still, this isn't me.

9. The Fanatic
   A blog solely devoted to a celeb or famous person(s), whether it be a movie star, a band, an athlete, a model, a porn star, you get the idea. Some of these blogs, you find you have to scroll this way and that to see the text, for all the giantness of the photo of their Adored One they've included on the site. These people are stalkers-in-waiting. If you ever hear of a stalker story in Hollywood news, or other entertainment headlines, check these blogs first. Chances are high you shall find them online, with Angelina Jolie big as life (literlly) pasted smack on the top of the page. See also "The King Of Action Adventure Movie Dorks" blog for similar sickness.

This isn't me either. I mean, yes I blog about the Catfish games. But we do more than that here. Besides, there will only be around 140 Catfish blog posts this season.

Okay, I'm not completely this, but I'm close.

8. The Inside Joke Secret Handshake Blog
   This is the kind of blog you read but for the life of you, cannot seem to figure out what the author is writing about, for reasons unknown to man. "The eagle has landed on The Jimmy Carter helipad and Big Momma wants an ice cream cone." Huh?

Not guilty.

7. The "Ms. or Mr. Popularity" Blog
   This is the kind of blog that contain posts mostly about the author's personal life, daily shenannigans, etc., not unlike other blogs, yet strangely different. How? Well first off, the readers/commenters of these kinds of blogs act like deciples of the author, whether online chums or IRL (in real life) chums, wherein they all race each other to comment on the author's recent posts (3x each), all sucking up to and doting all over the author. "You're not fat!", "You are so smart, and funny!" Get a life, people! Or get your own blog! Or at least get one that doesn't suck!

This is not me. Unless you count when I tell about things that happened to me years ago. Or stuff that happened yesterday. Okay. It's me.

6. The WAHM or SAHM Blogger (work at home mom or stay at home mom)
   The WAHM or SAHM blogger usually has a very pretty blog with a credit to the designer, usually Kitty The Klever Kountry Blog Artist or Claire's Site of Cute Crafty Web Designs. The blog is full of entries about the adventures of blogger's white picket fence and rusty SUV life, the cast of characters including their DD & DS (dear daughter & dear son, read: ungrateful children) and DH (dear husband, read: useless infidele) . Come on. We all know that the title means you get up every day, make breakfast for your DD, DS and DH, the latter always wishing you'd get a job already or at least lose 100 pounds, then spend the morning cleaning (10 minutes with a swiffer 1 load of laundry that will sit in the dryer for 11 hours doesn't count). Then you go to a Pampered Chef party, pick the kids up and bring them to Grandma's, after which time you willsit in front of Oprah while putzing with your crafting junk, trying to make a scrapbook that no one will ever look at. Your evenings are spent watching shitty reality TV and "Touched By An Angel" reruns, only getting up to call Domino's Pizza when hubby comes home at 8 from a *late meeting* - not.

This is definitely not me!

5. The King Of Action Adventure Movie Dorks
   You know the kind. The blog has quotes, clips, fan-fiction (where people with no lives of their own write stories that continue a movie beyond the end that us real people know and accept), and stupid contests like "Whoever posts the 2000th comment will win my extra X-box controller that I can't take back cause I lost the receipt". The musings of these blogs are typically about such movies as Star Wars, Matrix, Lord of The Rings, and Monty Python's The Holy Grail. You read that last one right. I fart in their general direction.

I only try to include about a dozen a week. So, I might not be the "king" of this, but I'm guilty, nonetheless.

4. The Gossip Hound
   "Jeff broke up with Sarah and he said the reason was because he heard her on her cell the other day in the hall with this other guy who is Sarah's cousin's football coach's son and then Brian told Carrie that he thinks Chris is gay. No one told me that! Chris must be gay, he's always singing Madonna songs and wearing a mini back pack like a girl would. Can you believe it?" No, I CAN'T believe IT! Tell me something INTERESTING, your blog sucks.

Now I can safely say that I'm not a Gossip Hound.

3. The Friday Night Fights Blog
   This is the kind of blog that arguments are started on, which never seem to end. Many of these blogs are hosted at DiaryLand or LiveJournal (ack...dont' get me started!). Lots of times the fights stem around plaigerism or "Who copied my idea of having blue flowers on their blog?". The author usually has a nice looking site and claimes to be a 'designer' though the only thing they've ever designed was 10 Blogskins. No one ever tells them that slapping up some blogging code in a different fashion and deciding to use blue flowers on their site maketh one a designer. But if you tell them they will scream and holler and try to pick a fight. Typically the author will put things in his/her sidebar like "Rules - Read them or leave", "My E-mail - Don't SPAM me, sucka", and "Don't steal my source code or I'll ban your IP. Then I'll tell all my friends so they can ban your IP, too." The author either has no life or it's boring for them so they get their kicks from yelling at, shaming, and generally bullying people via their little corner of the internet. Fun.

Again, I think I'm not one of these. Closest thing to a troll I had was The Liberal Avenger. He's one of these. And he came here showing his ass. Sure enough, I looked and he was an ass.

Now, after saying I'm not one of these, I pick a fight with TLA. So, I qualify anyway. Darn it!

2. The Keep-Up-With-Jonsie-Blog
   "I'm So Cool Look At All I've Been Doing...I've rented seven new DVDs, and got married in Jamaica this last week & we honeymooned in the Keys! Yesterday I bought a new Mazda Miata convertible and went on a hot air balloon ride!" *cough*whocares*cough* This is the kind of person who, no matter what cool things you've been up to, will always conviently have been up to something cooler, just to make you feel like a schmutz. Go-go-gadget earplugs!

Again, not guilty. Unless you count me talking about climbing the Great Pyramid, going to the Grand Canyon, visiting Niagara Falls ... you get the idea. So, I change my plea to guilty.

1. The Meme Mime
   This to me, is the top most annoying blog, because the author doesn't even write anything original of their own, but simply fills the entire blog with test and quiz results, lists of all kinds and pithy answers to stupid question memes (yes, they are out there). I call them a mime because you never get a feel for the tone of the blog or a voice of any kind to indicating any hint of the real person behind the blog. Hey, if your blog exists solely for the purpose of constantly answering to someone else, then it's time to rethink whether you should be blogging.

Again, not guilty. Except for all the Meme's and quizzes and such I've done and posted. So, make that guilty.

Now, let's see how I did. It looks like three four five six describe me.

So, while any one of these is enough to make you hate a blog, having six must be a huge crime.

And I have a question. A serious question: What annoys you most about this little blog?

I'm grown. I can take it.

UPDATE:
No one has really said anything (yet) about this blog that annoys them. I'm serious with the question. What things annoy you most about this little blog? And, while we're at it let me expand the question. What things annoy you most about blogs (this one or blogs in general)?

Now, I'm not looking for a blog trashfest. Just in general, what annoys you about blogs, or certain types of blogs. Of course, if you want to be specific, go ahead. They should have thought of that before they started a blog. :)