This week's episode of Nothing But Respect has been a long time coming. When Harry and I began working on the show, we came up with a list of dream episodes, standalone topics that we wanted to get to at some point, guests that we thought would be somewhat tricky to get but whose opinions we wanted to hear, etc. One of the first things Harry put on the list was an episode about House of Highlights. We knew we had to have Samer Kalaf on, since he wrote about them a few years ago for Popula. That very episode is here.
The three of us walked through the history of HoH, from its founding in the wake of LeBron James going back to Cleveland, through the supposed Bleacher Report golden age, the copaganda era, the ESPN takeover, and the current totally sludged-up place it is in now. As this history shows, it broadly mirrors the rest of the online world through this time period.
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