Let's Players originating from Something Awful - ft. VoidBurger, General Ironicus, Bob Kamoc

Petronella said:
Yeah, looking at VB's Twitter apparently Giant Bomb had to lay off a number of staff members.
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Just 2 actually. Void and Jason (both video editors in a company that no longer produces video content).

The parent company (Fandom) also laid off a few from Gamespot and a company-specific graphic designer, but GB as a whole only laid off 2.
 
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proteus4994 said:
I’m honestly not sure how anyone thought Giant Bomb was going to be around long enough to make a career out of it. It was dying before Voidburger got there. I’m guessing she saw it as a resume opportunity, remember Nathan Greyson is somehow writing at the Washington Post.
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I just assume she knew someone there already, she doesn't have any desire to work at all and thought the job where she'd get a paycheck to talk about video games is perfect for her. I mean she's not wrong she won't make it anywhere where she actually has customers.
 
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I deliberately delayed this Idpost until after what he was talking about was relevant because even when it WAS relevant I couldn't fucking get what's going on. "Hey Ukrainian correspondent that I've always had and never talked about before, you've seen the movie Back to the Future right of course you have."
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Ververg said:
I deliberately delayed this Idpost until after what he was talking about was relevant because even when it WAS relevant I couldn't fucking get what's going on. "Hey Ukrainian correspondent that I've always had and never talked about before, you've seen the movie Back to the Future right of course you have."
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What the fuck is he talking about?
 
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proteus4994 said:
I’m honestly not sure how anyone thought Giant Bomb was going to be around long enough to make a career out of it. It was dying before Voidburger got there. I’m guessing she saw it as a resume opportunity, remember Nathan Greyson is somehow writing at the Washington Post.
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I can't imagine many people thought Jeff would ever leave GB/let it die and I'm sure it didn't come up during her interivew.

It wasn't good, but Kotaku, Vice/Waypoint, and every other site still exists so why not expect GB to last?
 
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Tanner Glass said:
I can't imagine many people thought Jeff would ever leave GB/let it die and I'm sure it didn't come up during her interivew.

It wasn't good, but Kotaku, Vice/Waypoint, and every other site still exists so why not expect GB to last?
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I always thought everyone knew that all of these sites, Kotaku, Polygon, IGN, etc. paid their writers barely anything and also were running on razor thin margins because the online advertising gold rush for websites stopped by 2008 at the absolute latest.

Honestly it‘s not Giant Bomb exclusively, I can’t imagine taking a job on ANY of those sites unless you’re looking to jump ship to a real media or multimedia job ASAP snd want to have a relatively high traffic website on your resume.
 
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proteus4994 said:
I always thought everyone knew that all of these sites, Kotaku, Polygon, IGN, etc. paid their writers barely anything and also were running on razor thin margins because the online advertising gold rush for websites stopped by 2008 at the absolute latest.

Honestly it‘s not Giant Bomb exclusively, I can’t imagine taking a job on ANY of those sites unless you’re looking to jump ship to a real media or multimedia job ASAP snd want to have a relatively high traffic website on your resume.
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Waypoint apparently pays $100,000 based on a Patrick Klepek tweet from 2020. I'd imagine most places are similar or at least competitive.

Kelpek in 2020
Giant Bomb: 65k (no raise over 4 years, iirc)
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Kotaku: 77k
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Waypoint: 90k
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Today: $100k, thanks to yearly union pay raises.
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They're just propped up by larger companies trying to make a profit and usually don't make a profit - although I think Giantbomb was a very large exception based on merch, ads, and several subscription services.

Giantbomb died (IMO) when the parent company realized the podcast(s) were the most profitable thing the site did and quadrupled down on it. This is just an extension of that mindset. They don't want to produce video content because it's a very bad return on investment.
 
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