Less than 6 hours after the tragic death of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, a nation finds itself re-calmed after being equipped with the savvy words of games journalists. After his tragic, shocking death, the world of games journalism has come together to offer an appropriate response – generic puns and horrible douchebaggery.

Marc Tracy, 27, of Boston, told Hardcasual today, “The first record I bought was Thriller. I begged my mother for it when I was just five years old – so I guess that I just didn’t know what to say, until some guy from Destructoid made a joke about Michael Jackson touching little boys. That really helped me through the difficult memories that this death brought about.”

Jackson’s death came as a shock to many, not the least the many games journalists of the world who are desperate for hits and attention. Many games journalists were reeling from their earlier posts from that day when the news of Michael Jackson’s death broke.

“Look, it was a really bad day for me too. My Darksiders preview wasn’t getting any traffic,” said one writer who wished to remain anonymous. ” So I thought, hey, maybe if I take the piss out of a dead celebrity people will recognize my validity as a journalist.”

Their posts, which ranged from comic gems like “huhh that guy raped kids” to “Hey, I guess he beat it (to death)”, were quickly written, but will last in history as the legacy of a mourning nation. Kim Fidler, who posted the galvanizing “Dibs on Michael’s nose,” told Hardcasual, “Hey, I had about 60 seconds to put that Tweet together. Did you like it? Have you checked out my blog?”

Jim Sterling of Destructoid, whose post “On the bright side, the plastic can be recycled to make toys for victims of child abuse. Things go full circle.” referencing Michael Jackson’s many troubles with lawsuits, was hailed as a high point of the post-death response. The Tweet, which was released mere moments before the death was officially confirmed, led one source to call him “the Lester Bangs of horrible celebrity journalism.”

Evan Williams, the CEO of Twitter, told us, “We always hoped that Twitter would give games journalists a platform to express themselves. To express themselves as racist, homophobic, gossip-mongering twats with a desire to profit off the dead. We also added the favorite feature for the possibility that someone could call a dead person ‘a plastic chunk of child molestor’, which is both offensive and horrible, and yet the best possible use of Twitter.”

After supplying the world with these tweets, the games journalists of the world resumed their duty of rewriting press releases and angrily panning 3rd-party video games, and waited for the next reason to show just how fucking clever they are, and how much you should check out their next top 10 list, and how great it would be to submit it to n4g.com.