“I Am Not Obsessed With Julia Allison”, Swears Woman Who Devotes Life To Writing About Julia Allison…
Some people crochet, some are in bowling leagues, some try to write the Great American Novel. And then there are some who kick back at the end of a long day by writing mean things about Julia Allison. (Clueless as to who JA is? Go HERE). These people can’t seem to get enough of it, and her. The website ReBlogging NonSociety is sort of like the New Media version of a high school slam book: the mostly anonymous writers rip apart anything and everything having to do with Julia and her Merry Band of Lifecasters. Because people who choose to spend their free time writing and thinking about Julia are considerably more interesting than Julia Allison herself, we decided to investigate….
Meet Alice. Alice is a web developer who lives in New York, and likes taking pictures of herself and her dog, which she then posts on the internet (sound like someone else we know?). Oh, yeah, and she’s also one of the four writers of Reblogging NonSociety.
It started off just like any other completely normal American hobby: when NonSociety first launched, Walker would go to the site and leave (presumably nasty) comments. Alice is also a frequent favorite GofG commenter, you may know her by her alias: PartyPants. Then, when comments were disabled on the Nonsociety, she found solace in the comments section of Reblogging NS, where she quickly garnered the attention of the writers. When first approached by Reblogging NS to become an official writer of a generally defamatory website, Alice, naturally, had her doubts:
“I was nervous about writing because I don’t think I’m that funny, and I really enjoy the site. I didn’t want to ruin it if I couldn’t contribute something the readers would like. But it seems to have worked out ok.”
Things worked out ok, indeed, and Alice quickly became one of the more popular writers on the site. Before long, what started out as a hobby evolved into what seems like an all-encompassing passion.
“I used to confine to weekdays, but now it seems like I’m posting something every day. Recently, it’s several times daily.”
But soon, even Reblogging NonSociety became too small a forum for Alice’s ever-expanding dissertations on Julia. When she has leftover things to say, she writes about Julia on her personal blog as well. But just because she spends her days writing about the subject on multiple different websites does NOT mean she’s obsessed with Julia.
I’m not obsessed with Julia Allison. I’m obsessed with webtards. Julia Allison just happens to be the webtard we focus on at RBNS.
Is there a line the writers won’t cross, in terms of what they think is fair game to make fun of?
“Well, we all agree that calling her fat is just bottom scraping. We try to avoid that because, well, she’s not fat. It happens from time to time anyway.”
Nice.
Alice’s writing endeavors do not go unread: last month, the website got a staggering 280,000 page views. The writing on the site is actually quite good, as well; it’s a shame, then, that it’s wasted on a somewhat limited (and limiting) market. Still, the writers of Reblogging NS insist that the site is simply a hobby, and they want to keep it as such. Too bad it’s a hobby as horrible as NonSociety’s business plan.
The interesting thing, of course, is that Reblogging NonSociety, with its endless rants about the lack of legitimacy of NonSociety as a business endeavor and the founders foibles, is definitely doing its part to perpetuate and keep NonSociety in “business” (or at least the subject of blog posts). As long as people are, for whatever reason, getting their kicks by talking about Julia Allison, Julia Allison is here to stay. Alice, however, is unfazed by this.
“That personally doesn’t bother me. We aren’t some vendetta force out to ruin her. If someone moves along to her site and enjoys it then good for Julia. There’s room for everyone. ”
A point that we have to concede.
Alice is also quick to point out that she doesn’t hate Julia. In fact, she was even willing to list 5 nice things about her.
1. Her nails always look nice.
2. She seems to really love her family.
3. She had really pretty hair before she started with extensions and that red color.
4. She does, at times, seem to display a sense of humor about herself.
5. She just keeps giving us something to talk about.
But #5 is really the problem, isn’t it? Why talk about it? What is there to say that hasn’t already been said, really? Sure, it’s easy to endlessly pick anyone apart, and not that hard to do it comically. But then all we get is double the Julia Allison related output…and Julia does a pretty good job of writing about herself to begin with. So this begs the final question: If you’re a good writer, if you’re a funny writer, wouldn’t your efforts and talents be better spent on…well….not Julia Allison? Unless of course it is your form of media junk food.
[For more from Alice, go here and here]
DISCLOSURE: Earlier in the year, NonSociety published three pieces of mine, for which I was not paid or compensated in any way. I have never met, spoken, or corresponded with Julia Allison.
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September 18, 2009 12:01pm
i want to hate f*k& her.
The site is gone. So sad. So sad.
It’s not deleted. The link is http://rebloggingns.wordpress.com/
whoops. we had the wrong link in there
sorry here is right one:
http://rebloggingns.wordpress.com/
September 18, 2009 1:30pm
a. Wrong link. It’s http://www.rebloggingns.wordpress.com
b. It’s “unfazed.”
c. Don’t assume RBNS is the only place we write and therefore we are wasting our talents. Most of us are professional writers, writing under our own names successfully in other fora. This is, indeed, just a silly hobby in which we can have fun at the expense of someone who routinely answers our e-mails and discusses her personal life with some of our most high-profile commenters.
Golfclap-golfclap-golfclap.
After reading the love letter that Rachel Sklar wrote up on Mediaite about NS’ new contributor I’m just tickled to see some balance from another site to shine the light on how ridiculous JA is. It’s all satire and if people–coughJAcough–cant handle it then provide better content. You know, write something with some substance. Also stop with the fiction writing and then trying to pass it off as actual happenings.
Congrats to Alice on the write up. She actually is quite an entertaining person to speak to when she requests reverse drunk dialing.
September 18, 2009 2:13pm
So, to be fair, I don’t really read this type of stuff very often … but what am I missing here? It seems like Julia Allison is just a really talented and industrious young woman, and these “reblogging” people have nothing better to do than vent their jealousy through petty, cheap-shot blogs.
September 18, 2009 2:22pm
Dear God. Couldn’t these people be doing something more useful, like learning a language or doing pilates or something?
September 18, 2009 2:25pm
Guest of a Guest…and you just wrote about Reblogging NonSociety. So…see? You critiqued a critique site. Who cares? They write what they want. You write what you want. That’s life.
September 18, 2009 2:34pm
Don’t Look Down: I speak two languages. I also do volunteer work and commit about 60 hours a week to my career.
Why would one exclude the other?
And the old jealousy argument. Oh yes. That’s what it is. It’s the same reason restaurants get bad reviews from restaurant critics — the critics are jealous.
Here’s how I see it … JA has always wanted a reality show. What she fails to realize is that she already has one. She’s the star of her own Web reality show, and she has all the weird undermining frenemies starring in it with her, and all the big events that never go her way. It’s entertaining, it’s amusing, and RBNS is the audience. We’re like The Hills After-Show. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less.
September 18, 2009 2:38pm
hello
September 18, 2009 2:41pm
oh no no no no no! you are all wrong and validating yourselves - you are pathetic trolls. LOOK AT THE PHOTOS of alice!!! and SHE is so harsh on JA’s looks…. PUHLEEEZ. JA is smokin in comparison. The jealousy is outright disturbing, no matter the ‘content’ JA provides. PP kicked it hard to Brill, and Julia… if she wants to tear someone down head over to Melissa C. Morris’ site. UGH personified. PP just proves that ‘haters’ are exactly what you might think they are, and what you might think they look like: ugly OUTSIDE and in.
Melissa C. Morris you say? Thank you!
September 18, 2009 2:56pm
Just because the RBNS writers claim to have other things to do – jobs, hobbies, etc. that still doesn’t make up for the fact that the writing they do against JA is a complete waste of time.
September 18, 2009 2:57pm
Oh give me a break. All you self-righteous people are so full of it.
Like you’ve never ever EVER gone to a website and posted something against someone or something you don’t agree with because it’s your own right to do so. Get over yourselves.
Yes, everyone who doesn’t like Julia Allison and who dares talk against her online MUST be a horrible, ugly, disgusting people!
To which Guest of a Guest is just as guilty of what it’s whining about on this ridiculous story. How much did Julia Allison pay you hacks for this drivel anyway?
I mean, shouldn’t YOUR WEBSITE be discussing more important things than the regular doings of this nobody? This IS a website designed to profile other fellow desperate social-climbers, after all. Shouldn’t YOU be using your own supposed writing talents for better than to simply titter at your witty little puff pieces on various Manhattan faux-cialites?
Taking a few minutes out of one’s day to comment on the laughable shenenigans of the laughable Julia Allison isn’t akin to someone either being ugly/jealous/fat/miserable, etc.
So this other chick isn’t typically hot. So she gets off on making fun of Julia Allison and other webtards regularly. So does Perez Hilton. He dishes it as well as he takes it. So does this chick.
Unlike Julia Allison, at least she actually has writing talent and doesn’t get through life by using her T&A. This site and some of its commenters are basically saying this chick’s opinion on Julia is invalid because she’s not hot enough to comment. Grow up, please. High school is long ago.
Who the Hell cares if a bunch of people want to talk shit about a loser like Julia Allison on a website? It’s their right as much as it’s your right to cobble a fluffy little piece up together about it here.
Why even wonder about it or the people who write there?
You just validated the website and its writers by even giving them the time of the day. Same as they validate her existence by even writing about her obsessively. You’re officially as lame as Gawker now.
September 18, 2009 3:09pm
Jacy,
The point isn’t that you are wasting your talents. The point is your being a dick, and the best defense you can come up with is “its a hobby.”
Can you be a dick to ANYONE for a hobby? And if not, why is Julia different?
September 18, 2009 3:12pm
Andyman–you’re the only one talking about how busted or unbusted the rebloggers are.
…complex?
September 18, 2009 3:13pm
and there it is… thank you warhol. ”get through life by using her T & A’ it’s all based on jealousy. thanks for pointing that out. fantastic little speech, it was easy to get to the root of your anxieties…. JA’s tits and ass. which are quite enjoyable, btw. WORK WHAT YOU GOT.
September 18, 2009 3:21pm
Uh, guys? I’m a man. A man who really hates to see otherwise worthwhile women who feel like they have nothing more to offer the world than T&A. Women are capable of so much more than relying on their looks and charms to make names for themselves. Julia Allison represents a downfall in feminism and the modern thinking woman. Same as Paris Hilton and her ilk. I don’t like Paris Hilton either, and trust me, it ain’t because I have a “complex.” I got by in life thanks to my brain and work ethic, fuck you very much. Julia Allison could stand to do the same.
September 18, 2009 3:23pm
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all
September 18, 2009 3:25pm
I am in fact a dick to other people at times if I think that they themselves are dicks.
I also work at a homeless shelter one night a week and have a foster child in Sudan.
So what’s your point?
September 18, 2009 3:38pm
I’ve written things about Julia on this site (in fact recently - we all know Julia sits front row, don’t we?). And if I get the chance, I’ll jab at her clothes, her poses, her self righteousness, her love of taking MySpace-esque photos of herself. It’s probably been a total of 3 times. But what I don’t get is how people can make a hobby of it. There’s always Pilates? Or drinking? But hey, to each their own.
September 18, 2009 3:39pm
But who is Julia a dick to? She answers the emails of people who have a website making fun of her. Dick-ish?
Also, congrats on both languages and sucessfully writing checks to Sudanese kids. Maybe make a website about how cool you are. And if that goes well, every so often get a couple friends together, video tape you talking, and put it on the internet!
Yeah no, I would justify myself with some speech about how I deworm orphans in Somalia on the weekends and recycle, but nope. All I do is just sit around on my fat ass, wishing I were Julia Allison. Wow, truth hurts but I had to hear it.
I’m going to go turn RBNS into a fan site now. Thank you for showing me how low, vile, worthless I am for being an ugly fatty.
Peace & Hugs
September 18, 2009 4:01pm
Would anyone here be able to tell me what Social Münchausen Syndrome might be?
Thanks guys!
September 18, 2009 4:10pm
Carson: One hobby does not preclude all other hobbies. Hate Pilates, actually, but I do like CrossFit.
Doing RBNS requires about as much time in one day as it does to sit and watch 15 minutes of TV. And all we’re doing is commenting on the content that JA and her pals are asking people to pay attention to. We’re the audience. That’s it. Not that complicated.
September 18, 2009 4:14pm
Ben: Who’s to say I haven’t? But actually, I haven’t. Because I hate ego-blogging. It’s inane. Also, my point was not to boast about my foster child or anything else. It was to point out that JA’s audience at RBNS are not a bunch of one-dimensional losers. We have lives, we have success, we have friends and loved ones.
The woman has made a lot of enemies in Manhattan in media, PR and social circles due to her antics. I mean the posts on this very site lately have been as nasty as anything we’ve ever written.
Good to see that Julia mobilized the troops to create some backlash. It would not be the first time her, or someone VERY close to her, jumped on a thread to write a comment(or multiple comments under different names) under the false pretense of being “just a fan”. Nothing wrong with that of course, BUT if anyone reading these comments thinks that some(all?) of these pro-Julia replies are not in fact directly from her, then you are extremely naive as to how she operates her “brand” or how she manipulates how she’s perceived .
September 18, 2009 4:57pm
In a rich full life, it’s my form of media junk food. So there.
September 18, 2009 5:16pm
RBNS brings me great comic relief.
Some of THE funniest writing ever.
Oh… I’m TOTALLY jealous of JA. I’ve always wanted a shallow, fake existence where I can’t bring myself up to date from my glory days of high-school and college.
I think I stick around to see WHAT exactly Non-Society is. It’s a business? An interactive site filled with experts in various areas?
Waiting.
September 18, 2009 5:45pm
So, the writers at sites such as Guest of a Guest and Gawker are superior to Alice, because they make fun of Julia Allison less frequently? Thanks for clearing that up.
It’s fun snarking on people we don’t know, isn’t it? Face it, we all do it, including Julia Allison. It’s how people in a society communicate which behaviors are acceptable and which are not. Unfortunately, Julia isn’t listening. That’s why her particular Greek chorus grows larger and louder each day.
I can’t help it. The crew at Reblogging Nonsociety makes me howl with laughter on the daily. That’s a valuable service and they’re doing it for free, bless their blackened, shriveled little souls.
September 18, 2009 9:51pm
“Would anyone here be able to tell me what Social Münchausen Syndrome might be?”
That would be when people use social networking websites as an extension of their need for validation and attention.
September 18, 2009 10:22pm
Chiara, I noticed in the chat log posted on rbns of this interview you disclose that you have done some writing for nonsociety prior to the guest of a guest gig. I don’t, however, see that disclosed in this article…
September 18, 2009 10:36pm
I suggest everyone go over to RBNS and read the interview transcripts……shame on the GoG typist who “concocted” this piece.
RBNS is damn funny and it a wonderful antidote to the Shill-cast
of Julia Allison Baugher.
September 18, 2009 11:37pm
After reading the comments, all I can say is, “Who cares?” I find it incredibly sad that people are so intense about about nonsense – that’s exactly what all of this is. If people were this passionate about ending world hunger, looking to cure cancer, or whatever else ails humanity, we’d live in utopia. But that’s asking too much.
September 18, 2009 11:43pm
And received payment from NonSociety for those pieces, but no one seemed to feel that was worth mentioning while attempting a hatchet job on Alice. So yes, this “writer” and this piece are quite the joke. You might want to read up a bit on the ethics of disclosure, otherwise you’re not any better than Julia herself.
September 19, 2009 1:33am
Uhhh, people? Don’t get your panties in a jumble. Kermit said it best with “Who cares?” Once you all get blurry-eyed reading over these tongue-in-cheek blogs meant for entertainment only (to these sites I say, “mission: accomplished”), and get over your cosmo-induced pseudo indignations, try reading a little something called the first amendment.
September 19, 2009 2:03am
Are you criticizing Alice because you think she’s obsessed with Julia, or because you think she’s unattractive? That photo up top shows your agenda very clearly: Julia in full professional makeup and ball gown at a staged photo op versus Alice being casual and candid. There are plenty of photos at RBNS showing what Julia REALLY looks like (the banner pic, for one, is horrifying.)
Disclosure: I think Alice is a natural beauty and I’m jealous of her quick wit and the vast library of pop culture references she is able to retain in her head.
September 19, 2009 9:36am
why is PP defending herself so much? maybe she feels what julia might feel? being attacked sucks, huh? PP’s comments here are no different from julia emailing in to rbns… just sayin’
September 19, 2009 10:22am
Why wouldn’t she? The total hack job on this is pretty obvious when you compare it against the actual chat transcript. I mean, yikes.
September 19, 2009 10:47am
PartyPants doesn’t seem to give a shit. JA, meantime, has been trying to befriend the people at RBNS, and communicates with one regular commenter regularly to let her know what’s going on in her personal life.
She LIKES the attention. She craves it. She wanted to do a livestream to chat with the RBNS commenters. To their credit, the people behind RBNS refuse to engage her. So she tries to get information to them through the commenters who e-mail her to call her on all the deliberate, self-aggrandizing misinformation she deliberately puts out into the world.
I pity all the poor interns who have to come on websites like this to defend her. They were called into action yesterday.
Nice job, girls. You know there are unpaid internships in this city in which you will be asked to do things that will actually benefit your future, right?
Also, GofG — great disclosure. What was that, 12 hours later, and after you had to be called on it?
September 19, 2009 11:10am
The true hypocrisy in all of this is how people use the universal dislike for Julia as their way to get their own talents noticed. Where I come from that’s called riding someone’s coat tails.
September 19, 2009 2:04pm
Riding someone’s coat tails implies you are trying to get where they are going, without doing any of the work yourself. That’s really not what’s going on here, Circle. Pay attention.
September 19, 2009 2:44pm
Well then, Circle of Life, I suppose certain stand-up comedians and talkshow hosts, gossip/newspaper columnists, and most snarky celebrity blogs and Gawker, etc. are “riding someone’s coat tails” too, considering these folks use such universal dislike for their subjects to get their talents noticed as well. So good observation there, Einstein!
You realize that Alice knew the whole time you were going to cherrypick for the quotes you thought made her look crazy, and talked to you anyway? The whole transcript is posted at RBNS, and honestly, GoFG looks like the annoying one for seeking her out and then making all these passive aggressive comments in the chat and then calling her out for giving them freely.
Boo. Hatchet job.