Around the end of 2016, the startup backlash began not only in the tech blogosphere, but FUCK YOU STARTUP WORLD in the mainstream pages of Fortune and Wall That’s right, I said it. Street Journal business press: Fuck your startup scene with your 30 minute FRAUD IN SILICON VALLEY: morning routines of reading TechCrunch, TNW, Wired, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Verge and “As the list of startup scandals grows, it’s time ProductHunt- all so you don’t feel ‘left out’. Fuck to ask whether entrepreneurs are taking “fake your weird fucking conversations, things like it till you make it” too far.” “OMG did you see Snapchat’s new feature? OMG Instagram is totally copying Snapchat? Did you -Fortune Magazine, January 2017 see Zuck’s live townhall? OMG did you see what Elon Musk tweeted? OMG Uber raised another THIS TECH BUBBLE IS BURSTING round!” Fuck that. Nobody cares. -Shem, self-published on Medium, -WSJ, May 2, 2016 republished by Hacker News, October 2016 157