Jerkface Finally Gets His Moment In The Sun

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readOct 5, 2009
Nobody puts Jerkface in a corner

It’s a day I never thought I would live long enough to witness, but here we are: The mainstream media-in this case, the august Wall Street Journal-has finally seen fit to cast its gaze on Jerkface. I hope the attention doesn’t go to his head. From the article (about how online reviews are not critical enough): “Amazon reviewer Marc Schenker in Vancouver has become a Web-ratings vigilante. For the past several years, he has left nothing but one-star reviews for products. He has called men’s magazine Maxim a ‘bacchanalia of hedonism,’ and described ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ as ‘very, very, very disappointing.’

The vast majority of reviewers on Amazon ‘are a bunch of brown-nosing cheerleaders,’ says Mr. Schenker, who reviews under pseudonyms including Jerkface. ‘In an online store selling millions of items, there’s bound to be many, many awful ones,” he says.’”

The man is doing God’s work.

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