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Alllllright evvvverybody….Congratulations to Matt Bellassai who won a People's Choice Award this week for Favorite Social Media Star. In his own words, 'I do everything. I type, I write memos, I eat sandwiches, I cry in the bathroom. That’s a full day. That’s my whole day.' While both his Twitter feed and blog, Literally Matt both kill it, it's his weekly video series, Whine About It that sealed the deal.
Turing hard work into chicken nuggets for two seasons (33 episodes), Whine About It is filmed in the New York BuzzFeed offices. There, Matt regularly serves as a writer, but on Mondays at 1pm, he pounds a bottle of wine (or two with a bottle attached to each hand with One Direction tape) and launches into his latest rant. The show always begins with a perky, intelligent introduction from sober Matt before quickly dissolving into drunken complaints from belligerent Matt, sometimes accompanied by his Beyonce song stylings.
Often obscene, Matt's weekly, curse-fueled, desk-set tirades are filled with one-liners that are so awful and true, they are simply irresistible and absolutely hilarious. He covers everything from reasons mornings are the worst, reasons pants are the worst, reasons kids are the worst, and reasons outside is the worst. He is staying away from the sunny side and I love it. I've tried to make a list of his best lines, but that loaf of wonderbread, that delicate flakey pastry, that hungry waffle jackal, he makes it look so damn easy. So you're going to have to find out for yourself, 'thems the rules.'
Congratulations on your well-deserved win, Matt! No scene-stealing, wild-eyed, white-toothed, flailing thumbed, crumpled vanilla saltine can hold you down! It's just one more glorious thing to Whine About.