Oct 1, 2026 · 7 min · 3 segments
You’re twelve. You just got back from a horrific pool party where the boys made fun of your swimsuit. You also just got the news that Michael Jackson died. How are you going to self-soothe? Well…
Hannah RaineHostBeing held to no one's editorial standards but his own, he could find a way to put this iconically venomous flair onto pretty much anything.
Like, you'd have a picture of...
Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise and he'd be like Katie Holmes is walking her like sentient little robot Suri Cruise down the streets where is Tom trying to craft a story out of
yeah and it felt like no one was safe again again not even a child truly no type of person was safe yeah yeah
he no I will we'll get into that and he was
kind of not silver tongue doesn't the right word he he was he was he was quick-witted I wait what's the right word for this he he was a good writer like he could I he was cutting oh you think it's
bad cutting but reading back a lot of it is it's really not very sophisticated really maybe my
well yeah I mean like it's snarky it's snarky in a way that also if you're a child and you haven't actually met gay men but you've like been kind of fed this idea of like the bitchy gay best friend I think like satisfies that because the only gay boys you know are in the closet this was like you know I think satisfying like a role that a lot of gay men were kind of forced into in the media but he was sort of taking on gleefully which is like sassy commentator basically
totally Yeah, there was basically like there was nowhere for celebrities to hide.
You could be caught taking out the trash and you might have that photo on his blog with like a Microsoft paint dick being painted over your head, you know.
And he would take obviously the worst photo of the bunch to use.
yeah wait sorry where is he getting the images
from like paparazzi like okay so he doesn't have people that he's paying to go take photos himself like he's getting this from no no
but by having him use these images it's incentivizing paparazzi but he doesn't
how does he make money when he launched the blog Perez Holden was broke and he was operating out of a Sunset Boulevard coffee shop because he couldn't afford home internet within three years though his website was getting seven to ten million clicks a day and he was charging companies 9k for a single ad for a week
Being held to no one's editorial standards but his own, he could find a way to put this iconically venomous flair onto pretty much anything.
Like, you'd have a picture of...
Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise and he'd be like Katie Holmes is walking her like sentient little robot Suri Cruise down the streets where is Tom trying to craft a story out of
yeah and it felt like no one was safe again again not even a child truly no type of person was safe yeah yeah
he no I will we'll get into that and he was
kind of not silver tongue doesn't the right word he he was he was he was quick-witted I wait what's the right word for this he he was a good writer like he could I he was cutting oh you think it's
bad cutting but reading back a lot of it is it's really not very sophisticated really maybe my
well yeah I mean like it's snarky it's snarky in a way that also if you're a child and you haven't actually met gay men but you've like been kind of fed this idea of like the bitchy gay best friend I think like satisfies that because the only gay boys you know are in the closet this was like you know I think satisfying like a role that a lot of gay men were kind of forced into in the media but he was sort of taking on gleefully which is like sassy commentator basically
totally Yeah, there was basically like there was nowhere for celebrities to hide.
You could be caught taking out the trash and you might have that photo on his blog with like a Microsoft paint dick being painted over your head, you know.
And he would take obviously the worst photo of the bunch to use.
yeah wait sorry where is he getting the images
from like paparazzi like okay so he doesn't have people that he's paying to go take photos himself like he's getting this from no no
but by having him use these images it's incentivizing paparazzi but he doesn't
how does he make money when he launched the blog Perez Holden was broke and he was operating out of a Sunset Boulevard coffee shop because he couldn't afford home internet within three years though his website was getting seven to ten million clicks a day and he was charging companies 9k for a single ad for a week
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