Gemüsepizza
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They do deserve privacy. But not 115 million USD.
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Is Kotaku in danger of shutting down?
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They do deserve privacy. But not 115 million USD.
And complete shocker, most of those replies are by gators because ETHICS IN GAMING JOURNALISM or some bullshit like that.
I doubt they are fine in the slightest. Kotaku is under the Gawker umbrella, anything extreme like this will affect them, no doubt about that. Thinking otherwise is sticking your head in the sand.
He's been a target of the hate train from the start. I attended his talk at PAX East almost 3 years ago on Internet harassment. People have been dicks to him for years because he's very outspoken about equality and inclusiveness in the games space.
He's the main reason I stopped trying to pursue any sort of professional games writing; after seeing how much harassment he got.
TheYoungHeroRises
Banned
Considering the fact that they posted an article publicly outing a gay man.
I honestly have no sympathy for them, fuck them all and burn it down to the ground.
Gawker Media and all the websites they own are pretty much fucked.
Let's be honest the internet is not losing anything of importance here.
I honestly have no sympathy for them, fuck them all and burn it down to the ground.
Gawker Media and all the websites they own are pretty much fucked.
Let's be honest the internet is not losing anything of importance here.
Askherserenity
Member
People are being real assholes about this whole thing, even some in this thread.
Yeah, let's celebrate the potential job loss of all these people, sure.
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Yeah, let's celebrate the potential job loss of all these people, sure.
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RedNumberFive
Banned
Ha ha ha. Goddamn. I never thought it would be Hulk Hogan that would take down Gawker. It's oddly poetic.
A gay man who also conveniently happened to be the CFO of their biggest direct competitor, Conde Nast (Vox, Polygon etc)...
NoLongerALurker
Banned
I'm not a big fan of Kotaku, but I hope they don't get shut down. They have some good journalists over there. Fuck Gawker though. That website is pure shit.
Scoops and Press Sneak Fuck are probably the best two names I've heard in a sentence together and they even work at the same place.
I hope other kotaku employees have some cool job-related names like that as well
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Fuck Gawker but I will shed a tear for Kotaku. Too many good people work there.
Patrick wasn't enemy number 1 but he certainly was maybe something like number 6, even before he joined Kotaku.
Horsemama1956
Member
Nobody is celebrating that. Job loss happens all the time. That's life.
prag16
Banned
It seems common here for people to chiefly be concerned with potential job losses any time, well, basically anything happens. Even in cases where great injustices have been done (worse than this one), there are always some who are quick to immediately start hand wringing about job losses.
Of course nobody wants anybody to lose their jobs, in a vacuum. The people here "celebrating" aren't celebrating lost jobs. But you know that.
What gawker did was extremely fucked up, and they will pay. There will unfortunately be collateral damage. That sucks, but that's life. Again, nobody is celebrating lost jobs. And as people said, the profitable portions of the organization could be sold rather than just entirely eradicated. This doesn't guarantee the jobs, but it's definitely a possibility.
god that article was the fucking worst. I have no idea how they possibly thought they should publish it. The guy that gave them everything was blackmailing the one they outed and they still published it with every screencap making it clear he was being blackmailed.
sensui-tomo
Member
Gemüsepizza;198638192 said:
Gawker did ruin his entire career though to put in retrospect . (doesnt excuse him from the things he said mind you) He'll never be able to go back to not wrestling on wwe (because he hasnt done much really iirc)
KojiKnight
Member
Add As mentioned elsewhere, I honestly expect kotaku to be sold, not just shut down... Mitt that that guarantees anyone a job afterwards...
jabberwocker
Banned
Blackpanther25
Member
I'm not really a fan of kotaku
OT: but I will miss IO9.
OT: but I will miss IO9.
EnlightenedMint
Member
Kotaku has some great journalists who end up getting some of the most interesting scoops out there, hope it sticks around in one way or another.
pinkurocket
Member
To have Hulk Hogan be your downfall of all things...
They will appeal, but that only buys time. They are going to lose that appeal. They were in the wrong, violated a judge's order and got uppity about doing so by TWEETING the shit. Whoever the hell is running that company lives on a different planet where no rules apparently applied to them; right up until it did.
Thank you. This hiding the situation at hand behind "But people will lose their jobs" is ridiculous. Go email Gawker and ask them why they weren't thinking about the potential families and jobs lost when they did this nonsense and put themselves in this situation. They willfully screwed themselves and the people under their employ and I'm the inconsiderate one? I don't think so.
Thank you. This hiding the situation at hand behind "But people will lose their jobs" is ridiculous. Go email Gawker and ask them why they weren't thinking about the potential families and jobs lost when they did this nonsense and put themselves in this situation. They willfully screwed themselves and the people under their employ and I'm the inconsiderate one? I don't think so.
I'm just waiting for the first Hogan leg drop animated gif onto a gawker logo.
Couldn't that logic be used for any company being shut down regardless of how shit the company is? If some people feel Kotaku is a shitty site, why shouldn't they be happy it is shutting down?
To be honest they were their own worst enemy.
Correction, Hulk Hogan's dick.
protomouse
Member
Damn. Kotaku are better than they have ever been, and now this? :/
Not surprising from the same woman who sided with the GG mob to instigate a campaign for Nintendo to fire Alison Rapp. Scum of the earth, really.
Not surprising from the same woman who sided with the GG mob to instigate a campaign for Nintendo to fire Alison Rapp. Scum of the earth, really.
hemo memo
Gold Member
How is this good news? what the people at Kotaku done to deserve this?
entremet
Member
Who is buying video game blogs? Also getting bought doesn't guarantee the jobs of the employees.
Remember 1up?
I do hope everyone is unaffected, but the realities are not looking super great.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Gemüsepizza;198638192 said:
Do you think that it had an effect on his merchandise being sold? The fact that the WWE completely wiped him from the archives? Everything else that happened to him in the interim?
I don't think he would have earned that much, but I can see how they awarded him that dollar amount.
Paparazzi companies can burn in hell as far as I'm concerned.
I'm still salty about the whole Diana thing.
Kotaku has done nothing to deserve this other than being owned by a company that was ok with how they dealt with the Hulk sex tape. It sucks.
jabberwocker
Banned
Less baseless rumors?
While if it was posted by certain people that post there I'd end up agreeing, I don't think Klepek or Jason (forget his second name, posts here) would attach their name to something patently false.
They're not going to make the $50million in clicks needed to appeal.
Gentleman Jack
Member
They were told by a judge to take down a video and the accompanying post.
They took down the video but left the post up.
People who keep parroting 'they left the video up' simply don't know what they're talking about as we've known that to not be true since at least 2013.
Neuromancer
Member
My guess is if worst came to worst they would get sold to another network. But I guess we'll see.
They clearly left something up to get buried this way. Naturally, one would have assumed it was the video.
It's indeed sad that it will affect people who aren't responsible for the bad stuff on Gawker, but would you have preferred Gawker actually won this case?
MassiveNights
Banned
They left a link to the video hosted elsewhere on the original article.
Darryl M R
Member
Gawker is a terrible site but the people that are getting caught is the crossfire are also victims. Hopefully they can find a new job.