Kotaku: Pitgirl Pornstar [September 28th, 2010]

Oh wow, the number of emails I got about this one article. Okay, let’s go over exactly what happened here, shell we?

• Pornstar and occasional promotional model Bobbi Starr posts a picture of herself on her Twitter account, labeling the image “Pit girl.”
• Kotaku’s Owen Good - occasionally referred to rahnd dese pahts as “No Good” or variations thereupon - decides that she’s obviously posing as Pit Girl, the mascot for runaway Xbox Live Arcade hit Monday Night Combat. The picture goes up on Kotaku, meaning they’ve posted an article that is basically “Here is a porn star who looks a bit like a videogame character”.
• Kotaku readers complain that she’s not actually dressed as Pit Girl, is, in fact, merely dressed as a pit girl, and that this is in no way related to gaming whatsoever. Some of those comments are inexplicably (Ha! - Ed.) banished to the Kotaku Cornfield.
• The post is removed from Kotaku.
• ♫ Seasons chaaaaange, time passes by / as the weeks become the months become the years ♫
• The post reappears about an hour or so later, with this addendum:

Correction: On further review, we mistook Ms. Starr’s caption to be specific to Monday Night Combat. it is in fact a common moniker for eyecandy in motorsports events.

• With the flimsy gaming subtext now dead and buried, the post essentially becomes “Here is a porn star”.

This is hilarious. Kotaku aren’t exactly shy about coming up with the flimsiest excuses to post semi-naked women on their blog, and now that their flimsy excuse has been rendered null and void the very fact that the photo remains despite having absolutely bugger-all to do with Monday Night Combat (and despite having been removed once already) reaffirms something I said a few months ago: Kotaku are not a games blog. They are simply a blog who will post any old shit with a view to profiting from gamer culture. Frankly, that so many people get sucked in to their shit astounds me.