BASED! Gawker Employees Blame Company Demise on Gamergate - You did it, you magnificent faggots.

[Jaimas]

Max Read, editor-in-chief at Gawker, highlighted Gamergate as the single most devastating enemy Gawker faced in an interview with New York Magazine:

As Gawker was imploding in the summer of 2015, a group of teenage video-game enthusiasts was throwing gasoline on the already-raging fire. These were the Gamergaters. Of all the enemies Gawker had made over the years - in New York media, in Silicon Valley, in Hollywood - none were more effective than the Gamergaters.

According to Read, it all started when Sam Biddle got away with his pro-bullying comments, which in turn led to the infamous boycott that helped crush the company's income by driving away advertisers:

And so Gawker went into full-on crisis mode. Our chief revenue officer flew to Chicago to meet shaky clients; someone I hadn’t spoken with since high school Facebook-messaged me to let me know that her employer, L.L.Bean, a Gawker advertiser, was considering pulling its ads. Nick asked me to draft a non-apology apology - a clarification, basically, that we did not, institutionally, support bullying. Sam was compelled to tweet an apology. Joel, then the executive editor, published on Gawker, over the objections of the editors, another clarification. I then published, without Joel’s knowledge, an apology for the apology. Perhaps tellingly, it was the first time I’d ever really been confronted with the business side of Gawker besides small talk at parties.

Basically, Biddle's idiocy began a wave that paved the way for the Internet Autism Machine to hammer the bullet points. And then the damage started to accrue:

Then it all went away. Gawker had taken a hit - thousands of dollars of advertising gone, at least. But in the weeks we’d been hemorrhaging advertisers and goodwill, stories in the New York Times and other outlets - the real media - and a segment on The Colbert Report made it clear that the Gamergaters were the bad guys in this case, not us. The sites went back to normal.

Once again you have a clear attempt at damage control here, more so being the obfuscation of the economic impact and implications than anything else. We already know from Gawker's own in-office communique that GG had done millions of dollars to the besieged cancer of the internet within a few months, and Gawker had difficulty getting advertisers to stay within the span of 2 months of the boycott firing full swing.

It's very interesting to note, however, that Read places the blame squarely on Gamergate for this - not say, its ignoring a court order to take down a sex tape, nor pissing off enough people to guarantee that a class-action suit happened, financed by its enemies.

To hear Read tell it, Gamergate alone was responsible for Gawker's demise:

But of course it didn’t go away. Gamergate proved the power of well-organized reactionaries to threaten Gawker’s well-being. And when Gawker really went too far - far enough that even our regular defenders in the media wouldn’t step up to speak for us - Gamergate was there, in the background, turning every crisis up a notch or two and making continued existence impossible.

And there you have it: According to Gawker's own employees, Gamergate killed the company.



Model internet Samaritans, all of you. Semper Fidelis, you bastards.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

Lol Jaimas

Gamergate also killed your chances to ever have a real girlfriend who has a real vagina and is not a monster tentacle girl with custom breast sliders

also sorry for double posting

 

[Nutritious_Banana]

Oh boy, hearing this blowhard talk about Gawker like it was a legit news organization and not just The Enquirer with separate lifestyle brands. And of all the hills to die on for "Freedom of the Press", they chose some tape of a leathery old man plowing his best friends old lady. There is nothing about this whole event that isn't funny as fuck.

Hopefully, Jalopnik will become less cancerous as a result.

 

[HG 400]

Holy shit lmao Denton should just khs from the shame

 

[tehpope]

Gawker was already in hot water even before Gamergate. The protest just brought more scrutiny on the site and their actions concerning the Hulkster's sex tape just lit the fuse.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

Good riddance to bad rubbish, as they say.

 

[José Mourinho]

Voice of a generation

 

[Wood Glue]

Holy shit lmao Denton should just khs from the shame

He probably can't afford to buy a rope.

 

[Ruin]

This is hilarious. Even children figured out you can stop nerds by pushing them down and stealing their lunch money.

 

[alex_theman]

GAWKING INTENSIFIES

 

[CatParty]

Max Read, editor-in-chief at Gawker, highlighted Gamergate as the single most devastating enemy Gawker faced in an interview with New York Magazine:



According to Read, it all started when Sam Biddle got away with his pro-bullying comments, which in turn led to the infamous boycott that helped crush the company's income by driving away advertisers:



Basically, Biddle's idiocy began a wave that paved the way for the Internet Autism Machine to hammer the bullet points. And then the damage started to accrue:



Once again you have a clear attempt at damage control here, more so being the obfuscation of the economic impact and implications than anything else. We already know from Gawker's own in-office communique that GG had done millions of dollars to the besieged cancer of the internet within a few months, and Gawker had difficulty getting advertisers to stay within the span of 2 months of the boycott firing full swing.

It's very interesting to note, however, that Read places the blame squarely on Gamergate for this - not say, its ignoring a court order to take down a sex tape, nor pissing off enough people to guarantee that a class-action suit happened, financed by its enemies.

To hear Read tell it, Gamergate alone was responsible for Gawker's demise:



And there you have it: According to Gawker's own employees, Gamergate killed the company.



Model internet Samaritans, all of you. Semper Fidelis, you bastards.

Lol taking this subforum seriously

 

[AnOminous]

Max Read, editor-in-chief at Gawker, highlighted Gamergate as the single most devastating enemy Gawker faced in an interview with New York Magazine:

So this fag is basically admitting the most pathetic fucking autistic nerds in existence kicked the shit out of him. Even Hulk Hogan's 24 inch python up his ass doesn't merit this level of credit.

 

[timecop]

"gamergaters" is probably the word word that's ever to exist

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

It's easier to blame Gamergate than blame the situation that occurred with Hulk Hogan. They fucked up so bad in handling Hulkamania that it's extremely difficult to tell that story without getting too close to mentioning how they refused to take his sex tape down despite being ordered to by a judge and then Denton lying about the worth of Gawker's stock value.

Gamergate/Sam Biddle incident gave Gawker a financial black eye (Gawker had to hide it's list of new advertisers because GG kept getting them to pull out) but it was pure hubris that brought them down.

 

[c-no]

LOL, thinking GamerGate was actually a threat. Gawker just doesn't want to admit that it was all done by Hulk Hogan.

 

[Ruin]

LOL, thinking GamerGate was actually a threat. Gawker just doesn't want to admit that it was all done by Hulk Hogan.

Why? Being done in by the fucking Hulkster is way cooler than being driven into bankruptcy by a bunch of unemployed neckbeards.

 

[Rou]

So their end wasn't actually The Hulk but that idiotic "Bring Back Bullying" thing one of their mouthbreathers tweeted?

 

[Xarpho]

So their end wasn't actually The Hulk but that idiotic "Bring Back Bullying" thing one of their mouthbreathers tweeted?

That lawsuit would've gone a lot better for them if they didn't have morally bankrupt morons on their side with shenanigans like this.

 

[c-no]

Why? Being done in by the fucking Hulkster is way cooler than being driven into bankruptcy by a bunch of unemployed neckbeards.

They're probably too salty to admit Hulk Hogan done them in. So they'd have to go for something else to claim as the one thing that did them in.

That lawsuit would've gone a lot better for them if they didn't have morally bankrupt morons on their side with shenanigans like this.

Add to that the fact that Gawker responded to a woman with "blah, blah, blah" when they wouldn't take down her sex tape.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

lol Jaimas