It used to be better, it got worse over time, as her interest wained I assume. It may have even improved again, maybe I just gave up on a bad period – but it did turn into more of a circle jerk for a bit, which I had little interest in.

What we’re seeing now in 2012-2013 is the next wave of Internet marketing and related money-making Internet humor. Things online aren’t as innocent and carefree as they were in 2001-2004, just prior to the mighty Facebook Time-Sucking Revolution. Personally I think “making fun of stuff” on the Internet has run its course…the big players have figured out how to easily sell stuff online. The Internet is a shopping mall now, or rather PRIMARILY a shopping mall

Just by the way, April has, in fact, hand-crafted “crap” — literally. One time she decided to liquidate some of her mountains of Hollywood detritus and weird stuff to gather a down payment on a house, and sewed up a whole shitload of “crap bags” — pillowcases with brown felt feces cartoons appliquéd.

My bag contained (among other things) some horrid candy that was tied to a terrible movie, and a copy of Pia Zadora’s album of singing, which to this day gives me nightmares.

Also, reiterating: http://sockpuppettheatre.com

Also, April’s boyfriend “Bronc Drywall” (and yes, that is an MST3K reference) runs http://winningateverything.com

I think that April should have started farming out the drudge work long ago if she wanted to keep the project alive; something that Hyperbole couldn’t do.

Probably mentioned in the original article (?) if so at least you know why people assume that it was a full time job – and it also becomes the obvious reason why she burned herself out, because running a blog singlehandedly is MORE than a full time job.

But that doesn’t mean that finding rubbish Etsy listings, posting them with one-liners and cobbling together a photoshop montage is so much work that getting 3 out a week was a push.

I know exactly how much work is involved in every aspect of her job, and the only reason it could have burned her out (given the quantity of content being posted) is if it were a hobby she dedicated little time to, she did it full time but was really bad at all of those things, or she got bored.

This has nothing to do with miners in Africa.

[It's been noted that this wasn't her full time job. In which case her being overworked is understandable, to the extent where there should be no surprise that she was overworked, for her or us]

Frankly, I’ve been dreading finding out what what happened to her. But at least as of 11 months ago she posted on Reddit that she was still alive, so that’s good.