Jian Ghomeshi launched a comeback podcast and the internet is NOT having it

Former CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi just launched a comeback effort called The Ideation Project. It’s his first foray back into the public eye after the radio host was acquitted of sexual assault charges last year.

Promoted on a sparsely populated website, the project bills itself as,

…a creative adventure with the aim of taking a bigger picture view on newsworthy issues and culture, with the goal of asking questions and starting conversations.

The Ideation Project is a new media creative project that features all original words, music, recording and production. The content covers a variety of topics from politics to philosophy to pop culture and the human condition.

The project debuted today with a 6-minute track dubbed Exiles and the initial response on social media is as one might expect – unforgiving.

So far, this is how most of the internet seems to feel about Ghomeshi’s newest endeavour.

Hahaha Jian Gomeshi is back! How shitty would you have to be to support that trashbag

— rack them (@acoolwetsack) April 10, 2017

Is “The Ideation Project” you fucking off into a black hole for all eternity https://t.co/G8OOkbxt4a

— Scott (@firescotch) April 10, 2017

@natnewswatch #Ghomeshi has a multiplicity of apologies to make before I’ll ever give him the satisfaction of a “click” on anything he produces.

— Leonard Poole (@leonardpoole) April 10, 2017

@natnewswatch I have that nauseous “throw up in the mouth” feeling whenever #Ghomeshi comes to mind. Don’t know if that will ever go away.

— Leonard Poole (@leonardpoole) April 10, 2017

No interest in “The Ideation Project”; still hopeful for an “All My Fans Make Me Sick” 180-gram vinyl reissue.

— Will Sloan (@WillSloanEsq) April 10, 2017

@ProjectIdeation do they call it a track? pic.twitter.com/9dfDvsX1B6

— Chris Graham (@the_cdg) April 10, 2017

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