中二病 in English
For a blog as supposedly influential as TechCrunch is, acting like a petulant middle-schooler who didn’t get the reaction he was looking for is absurd.
中二病とは違うけど middle-schooler はちょうど中二くらい。
middleschooler - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
たしかに最近しょうもない記事増えてる。