repeat after us: fuck spec

We’ve been spotting mysterious “Fuck Spec” flyers around campus. We kind of wish it was us, but it’s not. We sent Staff Write Abby Rubel to investigate. 

Approximately eight days ago, a flyer appeared in the Hartley lobby promoting a new website: fuckspec.com. I immediately investigated, because nothing excites a Bwog writer more than someone who’s not us insulting Spec.

What I found was a minimalist website with just two links, one to a Spec op-ed about unionizing, the other to a page within fuckspec.com that copied the op-ed, but provided snarky commentary via text notes. To read the commentary, I simply clicked on the yellow highlights or red strikethroughs. Several of the notes referenced how drunk the author was, which is understandable: I also need to be drunk to convince myself to read most Spec op-eds.

About a week later, the front page of the website changed and there were now links to a different op-ed, this time about campus discourse. The previous week’s article had disappeared and the url no longer worked. The snarky commentary on the second article was slightly less hilarious, but still got in several good shots at the self-righteous tone of the op-ed.

Fuckspec.com is shrouded in mystery. The person (or group of people) behind it haven’t revealed themselves (yet), and my attempt to find out who had registered the domain name was futile. I do, however, have some theories.

Frustrated by the shortage of alcohol at parties, the Spectrum staff decided to quit Spec and vent their rage. The site hasn’t been active since late August, about the same time fuckspec.com started…

The Lion: sick and tired of being the most ignored campus news organization other than Quarto, they decided to knock Spec down a few pegs.

Suzanne Goldberg–she probably needs something to do in between ruling over all she surveys and yelling at students.

Bwog.

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