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NEWS ABOUT: schadenfreude

schadenfreude stories: 4 news summaries

 Hit Website in 
 France Revels 
 in Humiliation 

Self-professed losers share the pain on Vie De Merde

Mar 21, 09 11:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - A website inviting users to share tales of misery and humiliation has become one of the most popular sites in France, the Wall Street Journal reports. The editors of "Vie de merde"—roughly, "a crappy life"—sift through about 1,000 submissions a day and post... More »

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Internet • user generated content • France • website • schadenfreude

Mug Shots Are Cheap Thrills for Media, Readers

Print, web outlets get booking photos free, and find lots of fans

Dec 8, 08 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Print and web publishers are cashing in a curious American obsession: mug shots. Not just celebrities, whose how-the-mighty-have-fallen appeal is obvious, but pictures of regular folk arrested for pederasty, assault or simply loitering. Web editions of Newsday and the Palm Beach Post, for example, run sections of nothing but booking... More »

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online media • crime • photography • journalism • print journalism • schadenfreude • voyeurism

 'Pollard Fan Club' Mocks Brady 

Merchandise celebrates season-ending injury

Sep 10, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some people just can’t play nice. Believe Merch, a website run by a Steelers fan, is selling a shirt to commemorate Tom Brady’s season-ending injury, WFXT reports. The shirt reads “Bernard Pollard Fan Club” and shows Brady’s number 12 with a red line through it. Meanwhile,... More »

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NFL • New England Patriots • football • Pittsburgh Steelers • Tom Brady • quarterback • schadenfreude

Joie de Vivre Sapped, French Turn to Web

Site houses tales of woe, provides outlet, voyeuristic thrill

Apr 25, 08 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - French website Vie de Merde is receiving all the misery it can handle, Der Spiegel reports. Since its February launch, France’s answer to group therapy (translated "life is shit") has posted 2,400 tales of woe. Another 40,000 are waiting in the wings, says its founder. More »

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depression • France • website • therapy • schadenfreude • voyeurism

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