Yes, clickbait is a problem with the site. It's worse than 'people write clickbait'. CBR WANTS people to write clickbait. I was told I had to 'pass a class' to be able to submit final articles. The 'class' consisted of a teacher posting a vague list of rules, which were to make lists, to use only certain sites for images, and only certain sites for information if you could, you know, be bothered to actually link to something to prove you didn't make up a fact about numbers.
the problem was,t eh teacher didn't want to be bothered to post the list or the link to the quiz, which was just filling in how to write a clickbait story. I was fired before I posted any articles because the teacher didn't want to be contacted over, you know, her job. She sent vague instructions she obviously took off bad 'help' pages. It was word for word 'Did you plug in your computer? Did you make sure your internet was connected? Please see the administrator if this does not answer your questions. The administrator told me to ask the teacher because it was her class. I was fired when I said the wording was ripped off of a virtual assistance bot and the teacher was mad I 'called her a bot'. I never passed the quiz she only posted after being frustrated I pointed out she didn't do her job. There were three other people wondering where the hell the quiz and 'reading material' was. I have no idea if they e-mailed anyone or pointed out bot responses.
In case your wondering, here is the first article I wrote, in hopes that I could post something with a bit more substance than 'Dumbeldroe's best outfits':
Everything wrong with the Morbius movie and why
they matter
- Medical condition
For those who have never read his backstory, Michael
Morbius was a famous biochemist who majored in hematology (and later in the
comics also virology). Marvel has mentioned a few bits about his condition,
sometimes calling it a disease, sometimes comparing it to AIDS, other times
leukemia, mentioning that it dissolves blood cells and causes intense
pain. Except he found out about this after he won the Nobel prize, not before.
This ruins the irony and desperation
that made him not only turn to bats and electric shock but also to forgo
looking for any possible side effects. Morbius is one of Marvel’s top geniuses, after all, so he would have
found something if he had the time. The longer he has had this condition or
disease, the more time he has had to study it, and the less dire it
becomes. The more time, the less risk, and it is no longer a race against
time measured in days or a desperate act just to last another week with his
wife.
2.
Who the heck are these
guys?
I’m
a hardcore Morbius fan, but he’s been around since I was born and I’m in my
thirties. A good chunk of comics fans knows this guy. Aside from his wife,
those are the only two characters that show up in the comics. First, why can’t
they look like the characters from the comics? Martine Bancroft isn’t a very Hispanic
name, so why a Hispanic actress? Re her acting chops THAT good? Not only does Jared Leto not look at all like
Morbius, but given that he harassed Margo Robbie and the other actors of
Suicide Squad to the point that Will Smith was afraid he’d destroy family photos
if invited to the after-party, and how much people dislike his Joker, he can’t
have been that good of a choice. So why not hire someone at least close
ot Mediterranean or Eastern European descent?
Then again, who are the rest of these guys? Why are no other characters
from comics Morbius has appeared in, in the movie? Why can’t he rescue Amanda Saint? Why can’t he run into real vampires? Why can’t he meet real scientist friends of
his that we know? There’s being creative and then there’s being
desperate. You can’t introduce Superman
or Starfire This way. The only reason Venom ‘worked’ this way was because it
was considered so bad it was hilarious.
That doesn’t work for Morbius, who tried to kill himself more than once
to protect his fiancée.
3.
The Plot
This
isn’t Morbius’s MO. Not at all. It
was already awkward (and very stupid) in his solo when he was in Brownsville
protecting ‘the hood’. Morbius has no ties to America, whether it be the
elite urban cities to study in, or the poor and rundown areas where free
clinics are desperately needed. As much as he makes poor decisions in
life, he is smart enough to know that just chasing rich developers out of a neighborhood
automatically aid the poor who live there. In the same way, he wouldn’t
think fighting a scientist trying to replicate his experiment would be the best
use of his time. He would destroy his
notes, knowing it might doom himself, but he would not actively fight someone
just because they had a delusion of taking advantage of being a vampire. His
need for a cure would be more important to him and his morals would tell him to
help victims of not only this other vampire but of other problems.
Morbius, with a few scientific exceptions, and those are based on aid, not
prevention, is as street level as one can get.
Giving him this kind of plot takes away what makes him unique as a
character, not to mention closes a lot of doors on other plots he could have
had, such as his adventures with Amanda Saint, his trial, his encounters with
other vampires where he’s the victim, or more epic adventures against Lilith or
a Voodoo Queen. Readers enjoy reading
about him for who he is, not for a rehashed generic plot with generic
characters replacing those who should be there.
My novel: (paperback) (Kindle)
My comic: (Morbius fan comic)
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