They wouldn't be told to do that if they learned to write.
Do they honestly think they're in that high demand with the way they're acting? All a potential employer (who likes to keep their business running profitably) has to do is look at their social media and "Not on my time, not on my dime".
They feel that way because that kind of "I'm hot shit"/devil-may-care attitude was part of corporate culture over at Gawker Media and was celebrated for
many years - to a point where even the CEO and other execs had that kind of attitude
in a coutroom, during a case they were losing badly.
The problem for Kotaku (and most of those sites) is that they're under new ownership and it takes time for the new owners to assess the assets they've purchased. Univision didn't just buy Kotaku, they bought the entirety of Gawker media - a large number of employees, contracts, HR notes, profits and loss sheets, outstanding obiligations, etc - and they had to run through these for every site they now own. Then, once the new owners have a handle on it, they need to figure out if they can intergrate your site into their existing or new media strategy and if they can't, start thinking about spinning you off and selling you. (See also - Verizon's sale of Tumblr).
Kotaku was mediocre for most of this time - and mediocre is good when you're trying to keep a low profile. Kotaku probably wasn't making money but considering how shit Games Jounralism pays typically, it probably wasn't costing huge amounts to run and likely wasn't a high priority for the new management team to look at - they probably could have coasted for a few more years.
However, as we know, Kotaku staff is retarted and didn't take any of this into account and in the last month has tried very hard to make sure to get themselves some very bad publicity - primarily.
- Writing an article about Anime Porn (on a video game site) and having actual, porn pictures of anime characters who are aged 10 years old, uncensored and not behind any kind of age verification. The new owners probably didn't love the advertiser push back/bad press from this one.
- Complaining public about "behind the scenes" issues with advertisers (primiarly, the type of ads run). Instead of discussing this with management directly, or handling it in a smart way, having your staff direct the users to harass advertisers who almost certainly, instantly, complained to management and likely threatened to pull ads not just from Kotaku, but all Gawker/Univision sites.
It's one thing to not be profitable, it's another to fuck up revenue for the entire company. This likely made them priority #1 for Univision's leadership team and they clearly did not like what they say (reasonably so). I'd be curious if they junk the entire thing or if they try and find someone not retarted to run the site and bring the focus back to Video Games.
