Resetera notices that Kotaku is becoming as shitty as THEY are, and they don't like it.
I really like hating on Kotaku, and I see them weirdly as a journalist version of Resetera, so I wanted to bring this up here.
Resetera members have been noticing via Twitter that Kotaku has been
different lately. Their news titles have been unprofessional and incredibly negative. And pretty much NONE of them like it. More than a few people have drawn direct comparisons to Resetera itself:
But the reason for the change is actually pretty obvious. Not only has "golden boy" Jason Schreier left for Bloomberg, but the site got a new editor in chief.... the infamous Patricia Hernandez. If you've hated Kotaku for very long, you're already familiar with that name. But if not,
Hernandez has been responsible for some of the most cringe stories in the site's history. It was so noticeable that people started making fake "Patricia Hernandez articles" for a laugh, to the extent that then-EIC Stephen Totillo had to step up and defend her. This is the one that pushed it over the line for her:
Evidently enough people were believing it was a real article. And who can blame them?
Well, believe it or not, this woman is now the person who is in charge of Kotaku. Did I say woman? I meant tranny. Patricia is a tranny. Recently she wrote an article about how she was going to
dismantle and redefine what gaming journalism is (WARNING: actual Kotaku link). What we're finding is that for Patty, "redefine" means cranking the unbearable Gawker snark up to 11.
If that isn't enough, Kotaku just hired Carolyn Petit as a managing editor:
Carolyn Petit is the tranny who wrote the "trans review" of Cyberpunk 2077, where pretty much every point made tied back into the game's treatment of trans people. She's also Anita Sarkeesian's official trans woman for Feminist Frequency's videos and podcasts. Now we can see where she is working to make up for the fact that Anita doesn't pay her anymore.
I just find it funny that the message board ruled by troons has grown to hate the gaming news site ruled by troons. They really do ruin everything. It's especially bizarre because I consider Kotaku to be the premier website for social-justice-infected news. Resetera should have been all over that.