NEWS UPDATE: Gentle Words from the Other Side
So depression month is officially over. I am actively hoping a good chunk of our readers (and writers) have not sought the sweet escape because of it. It was a divisive thing to do, as me and Jeremy P. are not quite the depressive husks that Amanda and Billy are these days. This is strange, I know. I guess it was done as an experiment to see if we could even accomplish it, and to show that a good majority of people that you consider “funny” are actually quite depressed for the most part. They use laughter as a means to escape from that wall of depression as much as they can. Thus “laugh to forget” has always been this site’s slogan and intention. Personally, I have never been in the business of wanting to depress an audience. But sometimes you’ve just got to put the shit up the ass to push forward.
I sincerely hope our foray into depression hasn’t got you thinking that OMGJ has turned into the worst Livejournal of all time, as that is anything but the truth. From here on, we will go back to our regularly scheduled “humor” site content. This previous month’s content should be thought of as a rare look into the mental states of the people you may think lead NON-STOP FUNNY TIME LIVES. We don’t. In fact, we actually had several more articles that simply didn’t make it because we honestly couldn’t get through actually writing them. There was too much personal depression saturating them to carry on. Lord. Really, if you thought reading the content for the past month was hard, you should try to imagine interacting with them behind the scenes on a daily basis.
So yes, it’s back to normal business from here on out. I am sorry if our month of sadness was not what you come here to read as part of your daily/weekly/whatever routine, but it at least seems to have been quite cathartic on our end. Amanda is no longer openly weeping in public anymore, and I have heard reports that Billy actually got out of bed for the first time in a month the other day. Progress!
This isn’t to say that there won’t be other Depression Themes in the coming years. Just like real depression, you’ll never know when this will strike again. We are also thinking of doing other themed months. Do you guys like that idea? DO YOU?! We can only promise you that they won’t all be sad like this one was. In fact, we will likely be going back to our old cynical, enraged ways – the ways that keep us warmest at night. The ways that keep us clothed, fed, and content in our lives.
Except for the much-anticipated Puppy Month. We will only be sweetness and light during Puppy Month. We'll have no choice.
September isn’t going to offer much, unless Jeremy P and/or I come up with something. As cathartic as August was, it was probably also exhausting, judging by the sheer amount of near-constant writing and updates those two seemed to do. But then, come October, we’ll be doing Halloween Content for the thousandth year in a row. Oh yeah! Stay tuned, and welcome back, everyone.
