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Makes sense, all of them are facing going back to being unpaid writers, like the rest of the internet. That's better than most of their prospects, I wager. Now they won't be able to trade sex for reviews.
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Makes sense, all of them are facing going back to being unpaid writers, like the rest of the internet. That's better than most of their prospects, I wager. Now they won't be able to trade sex for reviews.
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I love how he (rightfully) claims that Gawker posting the sex tape was their fault. Yet decides to backtrack and say "No, Thiel's to blame for all this because Gawker's the victim in this."
I'm sorry, but if you think they need defending, then I have no sympathy. They broke into someone's private life and karma struck them in the ass so hard, they're now practically non-existent. And even before the Hogan sex tape scandal these guys were complete and utter tools.
Aside from the SJWs who think "Society sucks", no one's going to miss these guys.
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Oh God, I hope they don't. IGN has its warts ("Too much water", anyone?), but it's still one of the marginally better mainstream video game/pop culture news sites out there in my book. I'd rather not see it poisoned even further by Kotaku refugees and their so-called "journalism" that's basically Tumblr-tier blogging about everything but video games.
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Any prospective buyers will be from the media business. They know how fungible "internet journalists" are. They could snap their fingers and have a thousand-plus applicants in a day.
Gawker Media's valuation is its traffic and ad revenue. The writers are basically worthless and will be cut if the buyer associates them with the type of behaviour that killed the company.
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The name Gawker Media is basically shit at this point.
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A neogaf thread about this has a majority of people who see no problem with the death of Gawker, which is surprising. I figured neogaf would be a good sample of the core audience for Kotaku.
There are still some disapointed by it, and they seem to fall into two sometimes overlapping categories.
First, the ones who believe Kotaku is one of the few sites not beholden to the "corporate gaming machine", and held the industry's feet to the fire as proper journalists should instead of being glorified advertisements.
This is dumb because Gawker is/was one of the slimiest for-profit clickbait farm corporations on the internet. They never had any journalistic integrity and alternatively shilled/shit on whatever they thought would get them the most views. Leaking content you don't own to the web and calling it "breaking news" was just gross profiteering, not journalism. I won't disagree that "gaming media" has always largely been nothing but a mouthpiece for the gaming industry, but Gawker's model is even more dishonest, fake and cynical if anything.
Then those that see Thiel funding Hogan's lawsuit as the personal vendetta of a 0.1 percenter, and a symptom of the disgusting capitalistic corpocratic nature of the US, in which a billionaire can "censor" the free speech of a noble media outlet simply because he does not like their totally above the board grade A journalistic content. Lot's of crying about the innocent workers who were simply doing their jobs and don't deserve to be out work.
Interestingly no mention of the corporate fat cats who own Gawker themselves, just like there is no mention of the poor innocent workers in the opressive gameocracy. It would be distracting to the pure, exemplary narrative presented, of a narcissistic Bourgeois Parasite destroying the livelyhoods of the Proletariat because they dared to play the honoured role of the Fourth Estate, and is willing to sink millions for petty personal revenge at their expense.
There are still some disapointed by it, and they seem to fall into two sometimes overlapping categories.
First, the ones who believe Kotaku is one of the few sites not beholden to the "corporate gaming machine", and held the industry's feet to the fire as proper journalists should instead of being glorified advertisements.
This is dumb because Gawker is/was one of the slimiest for-profit clickbait farm corporations on the internet. They never had any journalistic integrity and alternatively shilled/shit on whatever they thought would get them the most views. Leaking content you don't own to the web and calling it "breaking news" was just gross profiteering, not journalism. I won't disagree that "gaming media" has always largely been nothing but a mouthpiece for the gaming industry, but Gawker's model is even more dishonest, fake and cynical if anything.
Then those that see Thiel funding Hogan's lawsuit as the personal vendetta of a 0.1 percenter, and a symptom of the disgusting capitalistic corpocratic nature of the US, in which a billionaire can "censor" the free speech of a noble media outlet simply because he does not like their totally above the board grade A journalistic content. Lot's of crying about the innocent workers who were simply doing their jobs and don't deserve to be out work.
Interestingly no mention of the corporate fat cats who own Gawker themselves, just like there is no mention of the poor innocent workers in the opressive gameocracy. It would be distracting to the pure, exemplary narrative presented, of a narcissistic Bourgeois Parasite destroying the livelyhoods of the Proletariat because they dared to play the honoured role of the Fourth Estate, and is willing to sink millions for petty personal revenge at their expense.
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Is surprising only because people in Gaf forget that the entire site would unanimous mock Kotaku some three or four years ago. The Gaf of today would defend people like Patricia Hernandez or Arthur Gies. Also look who are the users defending Gawker and their staff, and you can get why the blogsphere writers/readers are having a panic attack about this shit.
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What's interesting is that I've seen a few SJW-types delighted over Gawker/Jezebel's demise. I think it's safe to say that, over the course of Gawker Media's lifetime, they've managed to piss off every demographic and subculture in existence.
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The new management is going to have to cull quite a few of their writers if they're going to make this work.
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And stop doing the Gawker thing of accepting new dangerhairs to write for them
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I think Thiel should buy it and re-brand it as GamerGate News, maybe buy up Kiwi Farms from Null and make it the official forum for the place.We even have a list of spergs and cows willing to write and shill for free if they're ever looking for reporters.
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I knew some die-hard feminists, and even they didn't like Jezebel for various reasons. That's pretty telling in of itself.
That said, I hope sites like Deadspin, Lifehacker, and io9 find new homes/owners. Sure, they might have had their moments and issues (io9 could get really sanctimonious at times, but they had good articles every so often), but as far as the Gawker network goes, they were decently readable on a good day. Everything else can rest in the smouldering ashes.
Pretty much. They might have had a little sympathy after the audio was released of Hogan using racial slurs, but I think the ultimate moment where everyone -or at least, those who have a respect for human dignity and the integrity of journalism- realized what utter subhuman slime they were, was when they forcibly outed that one Conde Nast CEO. No, seriously, I legit believe that was the exact moment when the blinders came off of everyone's eyes, woke up, and realized "... Wow, these people are awful human begins". Even in this day and age of people being more receptive and accepting of homosexuality, you still don't out someone if they don't want to be outed. Even if it's in the name of vindictive journalism. They further shot themselves in the foot -or what little remained of their feet- after Nick Denton doubled down and defended the article (before ultimately deleting the article to save face, but still bitched about "MUH FREE SPEECH MUH JOURNALISM"), which further poisoned Gawker's well in the public's eyes.
That's when Gawker's hubris finally caught up with them. It's been satisfying watching their fall ever since.
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:powerlevel: Agreed. i09 in particular was at worst a tad obnoxious but harmless, at best it could be pretty informative for scoops on upcoming scifi novels and the like. I hope it gets a new owner who whips it into something more presentable than it is now.
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So Gawker wants to sue Peter Thiel.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-...wsuit-against-peter-thiel-hulk-hogan-lawsuit/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-...wsuit-against-peter-thiel-hulk-hogan-lawsuit/
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Good luck on that. I don't see how it was illegal for Thiel to do that unless the lawsuit was frivolous or meritless. The fact that it won a jury verdict pretty clearly shows it wasn't.
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I have a feeling that Gawker Media isn't going to be sold wholesale, they'll auction off their better sites. That said, even if they aren't explicitly damaged goods, they have deteriorated quite a bit, Lifehacker in particular is more of a clickbait/ad farm than the useful articles it used to have years ago. I think I left LH because I was bored with it (and increasing format changes made it slower/harder to navigate). Kotaku I left for similar user-interface reasons but it was the SJW writing that drove me off of Kotaku. #gamergate and Depression Quest were still a few years away, but people were starting to notice and talk about leaving.
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There's already a 100 million bid on Gawker by the owner of PC Magazine. The auction starts next week.
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Why such a high opening bid? Clearly they could take the eBay approach and start at 99 cents and see how it goes from there.
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This is why I'll be happy to see it go too.
Coupled with the clickbait/sensationalist feel it was giving me and focus on 'cool nerdy things' which meant heavily photoshopped cosplayers.