The Odyssey Online
The Odyssey Online (also known as Odyssey, or more appropriately, Thotyssey) is an Americunt internet media company that operates based on a crowdsourced model, receiving articles from a base of thousands of volunteer authors and edited through their teams of volunteer, outsourced, and professional content strategists. The platform produces material covering virtually all major topics, including poorly-researched and badly-written diatribes about things the author doesn't like, clickbait ad nauseum, and "DonAlD dRUMpF iS NOT mY PrESiDent!!1!ELEVEN!ONE1!"
Odyssey has over 9,000 contributing writers and over 30 million readers across the country, so odds you know at least one troglodyte who shares content from this garbage fire on Facebook. Additionally, writers have the opportunity to receive compensation for their articles based on the amount of page views a contributor has, so as long as you keep sharing the article that you wrote on the toilet about 8573 Times When SpongeBob TOTALLY Described Your Life in College, you can keep your pockets lined with enough cash to buy a new pair of Beats by Dre or a tapestry from the head shop down the road for your dorm room.
Odyssey was co-founded by Evan Burns and Adrian France, two mouth-breathers from Indiana University, in 2014. It started as a print publication for the college with a focus on Greek life and campus issues, with the idea being that the content was not generally covered by the university’s official news publication. Gee, I don't think anyone could fathom why.
Obviously, this platform is just one in a sea of lost brain cells, as much of America's "media" can easily be broken down to a similar formula:
- The content makes even the most mundane person begin to think that they're "not like everyone else" even if they're a walking Hollister Ad.
- Making the BIGGEST FUCKING DEAL over extremely vapid and ordinary events, and attract attention to them by twisting peoples' words to make them look worse.
- Continuously, and subtly (or not subtly, it really doesn't matter) shoving their dogma down the readers' throats until they come crawling back for more.
If you were to just read the description in their about page, you would think that they were some sort of noble, underground network for news for college students who were looking to look at current events and avoid the pitfalls of other media sources, when in reality this abortion of a site could not be more of the opposite; it is actively fucking journalism in the ass by encouraging its writers that clickbait and sensationalism are the best ways to convey information to the masses.
