Blackhawk wrote:You mean the gaming world could lose Kotaku?
Good riddance.
We're supposed to hate Kotaku? Huh, didn't know that.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 1:36 pm
by LordMortis
tru1cy wrote:Guess this what happens when you piss off a Billionaire by outing him
I missed that. And even after reading I still have no idea who the guy is or what he was outed for.
Edit: one link deeper and now I know and, meh. I guess if you have billions you have the ability to destroy someones unwanted advances in to your personal life.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 1:41 pm
by AWS260
Skinypupy wrote:
Blackhawk wrote:You mean the gaming world could lose Kotaku?
Good riddance.
We're supposed to hate Kotaku? Huh, didn't know that.
Yeah, I've never quite understood the Kotaku disdain that seems to be common among gamers of a certain age. It's not the best games website ever, but there's plenty of good writing there.
Anyway, Gawker is filing for Chapter 11, so it's unlikely that any of their platforms will be going away any time soon.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 1:41 pm
by tru1cy
LordMortis wrote:
tru1cy wrote:Guess this what happens when you piss off a Billionaire by outing him
I missed that. And even after reading I still have no idea who the guy is or what he was outed for.
Peter Thiel's saga He sought revenge on Gawker for basically outing him in 2006. It was a quiet secret in the tech world, but Gawker outed him nonetheless.
Word was he would seek revenge and he did it by secretly financing Hulk's lawsuit against Gawker
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 1:58 pm
by Vorret
Good riddance
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 1:58 pm
by Rumpy
I actually like Kotaku. One of the few big ones left still reporting the news.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 2:06 pm
by hepcat
Vorret wrote:Good riddance
They're not going anywhere. The bankruptcy is just to protect their assets. They're actually going to continue on, business as usual.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 6:25 pm
by Blackhawk
Skinypupy wrote:
Blackhawk wrote:You mean the gaming world could lose Kotaku?
Good riddance.
We're supposed to hate Kotaku? Huh, didn't know that.
Supposed? I have no idea what we're supposed to be doing. I just know what I think. I've found Kotaku to be obnoxious, sensationalist nonsense that stirs up the masses over irrelevant garbage they report as news. They write like an angsty 18-year-old trying to prove he's cool.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 8:14 pm
by DD*
tru1cy wrote:
LordMortis wrote:
tru1cy wrote:Guess this what happens when you piss off a Billionaire by outing him
I missed that. And even after reading I still have no idea who the guy is or what he was outed for.
Peter Thiel's saga He sought revenge on Gawker for basically outing him in 2006. It was a quiet secret in the tech world, but Gawker outed him nonetheless.
Word was he would seek revenge and he did it by secretly financing Hulk's lawsuit against Gawker
Pretty sure the funding was not secret. Outside groups back both defendants and plaintiffs all the time.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 1:28 am
by GreenGoo
It was secret. He admitted it after the trial. There were rumours during the trial, but nothing solid.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 11:36 pm
by cheeba
Looks like Gawker's assets have been purchased by Ziff Davis, which owns IGN. I would imagine there will be some sort of merger or change to Kotaku and/or IGN. Personally, I'd prefer they nuke Kotaku from orbit. Then do the same with IGN.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 3:01 am
by em2nought
I'm pleased that Hogan isn't going to get the money, even if it hurts the local economy. Maybe he can sleep with Schnitt's wife now.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 10:40 am
by Zarathud
Hogan can get the money, but Gawker continues under new ownership. We'll see if they're better but probably not.
Gawker.com, one of the oldest and highest-profile media and culture blogs, is shutting down next week. The closure of Gawker Media’s flagship blog follows Univision’s acquisition of the company for $135 million at a bankruptcy auction earlier this week.
Univision will still maintain Gawker's other properties, like Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Jezebel, Deadspin, and so on.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 2:54 pm
by AWS260
That's too bad -- I like Gawker more often than not. Although given its current state, this isn't a huge loss. A lot of their best writers left over the past year (Caity Weaver!), and Jezebel is a better source for snark and social commentary these days.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 2:55 pm
by GreenGoo
Now if we could just have the same thing happen to Breitbart.com
Full disclosure, google suckered me into reading another breitbart article this morning. It was unpleasant.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 11:56 pm
by tjg_marantz
GreenGoo wrote:Now if we could just have the same thing happen to Breitbart.com
Full disclosure, google suckered me into reading another breitbart article this morning. It was unpleasant.
Breitbart is now playing puppet master to Her Drumpf. There was a journalist tweeting from the rally tonight. Things have gotten weird and scary.
In sum: Deadspin was a successful website. They wrote primarily about sports, but also frequently about politics, culture, and what people stick in their rectums. These non-sports posts generally performed even better than the sports content. Deadspin generated significant advertising revenue and was profitable.
The new managers decided to try to boost revenue by reverting to the annoying web advertising practices of a decade ago: massive numbers of ads on every page, auto-play videos with audio on. They also decided that Deadspin should "stick to sports," despite non-sports posts being a core part of the site's identity and business success.
So late yesterday and this morning, pretty much every writer at Deadspin quit. It's almost impressive how quickly those private equity idiots have managed to set fire to a property they paid tens of millions of dollars for just six months ago.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:05 pm
by Z-Corn
They killed off Splinter a couple weeks ago. I really enjoyed the political stories and analysis on that site. I noticed a lot of the writers left have changed their avatars to the GMG Union badge out of solidarity.
I hope Drew Magary ends up somewhere soon. I appreciate his irreverence.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:08 pm
by Isgrimnur
Z-Corn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:05 pm
I hope Drew Magary ends up somewhere soon. I appreciate his irreverence.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:27 pm
by Eel Snave
Just the massive balls on ALL the staff involved in walking away from Deadspin. I hope they all find soft landing places soon.
Z-Corn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:05 pm
I hope Drew Magary ends up somewhere soon. I appreciate his irreverence.
and bookmarkded...
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 6:37 pm
by Skinypupy
Bummer, I enjoyed Deadspin’s snark.
Wonder how long it’ll be before Kotaku meets a similar fate. Some of their JRPG coverage (especially from Fahey) is fantastic.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 10:19 am
by ImLawBoy
Deadspin was a daily stop for me, even if I found them sometimes too over the top. I think the term "virtue signaling" must have been coined to address some of their coverage. Still, that was their niche and they were good at it. I certainly didn't go there looking for straight sports news. While they were sometimes among the first to break a story, they were more often than not regurgitating a story from somewhere else, but with their own (dead)spin on it. I'll miss it if it turns into just a straight up sports news aggregator without a personality.
BTW, if you enjoy Drew Magary, check out his novel The Hike. It's a tremendous mind fuck.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 12:08 pm
by Jag
AWS260 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:30 amDeadspin is functionally dead, murdered by the idiot managers put in place by their new private equity owners.
In sum: Deadspin was a successful website. They wrote primarily about sports, but also frequently about politics, culture, and what people stick in their rectums. These non-sports posts generally performed even better than the sports content. Deadspin generated significant advertising revenue and was profitable.
The new managers decided to try to boost revenue by reverting to the annoying web advertising practices of a decade ago: massive numbers of ads on every page, auto-play videos with audio on. They also decided that Deadspin should "stick to sports," despite non-sports posts being a core part of the site's identity and business success.
So late yesterday and this morning, pretty much every writer at Deadspin quit. It's almost impressive how quickly those private equity idiots have managed to set fire to a property they paid tens of millions of dollars for just six months ago.
Been following the drama closely. It's a shame. Seems right out of a certain Succession episode.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 1:24 pm
by Octavious
Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 6:37 pm
Bummer, I enjoyed Deadspin’s snark.
Wonder how long it’ll be before Kotaku meets a similar fate. Some of their JRPG coverage (especially from Fahey) is fantastic.
The Dragon Quest reviews are some of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 4:48 pm
by Z-Corn
ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 10:19 am
BTW, if you enjoy Drew Magary, check out his novel The Hike. It's a tremendous mind fuck.
Agreed. I was just trying to convince my wife to read it.
Somewhere in there is an allegory or a parable or something but it is quite a ride to get there.
It’s a blog! Temporarily! Over the course of the next three days, Jan. 31 through Feb. 2, we will be publishing blogs for your reading pleasure. At the conclusion of this three-day period, we will vanish.
Magary, Lauren Theisen, Burneko, Barry Petchesky, and more.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:18 am
by AWS260
Unnamed Temporary Sports Blog is back, temporarily.
Now Deadspin’s former writers and editors — 18 of the roughly 20 who quit last year — have reunited to start a digital media company, Defector Media, that they will own and operate themselves.
Defector Media is scheduled to start a podcast next month and roll out its website in September, its founders said.
Re: Gawker Media files for Bankruptcy
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2020 5:46 pm
by AWS260
Defector is now live, with a new edition of a Deadspin recurring feature:
Damn, I love the AV Club - some of the best TV reviews anywhere (and even better comment sections). With some TV shows, I think I spent more time reading reviews and comments than I did watching the actual show.
