'Dear David' Is the Final Gasp of a Dying Internet

'Dear David,' the 2023 film adaptation of a 2017 viral Twitter thread by a BuzzFeed cartoonist, must be seen to be believed. Or not.

A tepid attempt at horror about a narcissistic blogger as he’s menaced by a ghost with an oddly wholesome anti-cyberbullying agenda, Dear David is not a good movie. But it is the most epic bacon amazeballs doggo i can haz cheeseburger you sir have won the internet film of all time, an ironic mustache-finger tattoo of a motion picture, so committed to bringing the giddy spirit of BuzzFeed to our screens that there is nothing left to do but gaze upon it in awe.

Universal invested $400 million into BuzzFeed in 2014 and 2015, valuing it at $1.7 billion at the time. Back when social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter played an outsize role in how people found articles and memes online, BuzzFeed flourished. Around the time Ellis was tweeting about “Dear David,” the outlet’s future still looked sunny; it was expanding into Germany and Mexico, one of its reporters was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. But the cracks were starting to show.

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