Sadly the woke crowd is normal now. We aren’t coming back from this. In the early 2000s sites like ign had “babe of the day” on their site Was more like fhm. Those days are over the woke crowd is here to stay.
It seems pretty clear they aren't here to stay, because they aren't profitable and no one wants to read that drivel and certainly not on a video game website.
The only reason they were prevalent at all is because of venture capitalism - people investing and hoping that #wokeness websites (like Vice, HuffPo, Buzzfeed) would be the new media giant like Facebook only to realize years later there's a reason that it wasn't going to happen because two main reasons.
1) Normal people do not give a shit about #wokeness, even if they do. Entertainment is supposed to be a respite from the weary world and injecting entertainment (escapism) with the very thing people are trying to escape from means people are less likely to stick around.
2) #woke business leaders are bad business leaders. In this specific example, did vice
really need a separate PC division (Motherboard)
and a separate video game section (Vice Gaming/Waypoint)? Does waypoint need
FOUR SEPARATE editors (Editor in Chief, Managing Editor, Senior Editor, and Social Editor) for a small vertical, seperate than the other editors that Motherboard has. Do they need to put out the same podcast
three times a week and pay the entire staff for that time?
