As much as I like the onion, I have no clue what their business model is. Making funny headlines that nobody ever clicks on doesn’t make money.
The others never seemed that useful.
Comment on Jezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You might not care much about Jezebel, but their parent company, G/O Media, also owns Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Deadspin, Jezebel, The Root, The A.V. Club, The Takeout, The Onion, The Inventory, and Quartz.
So if you like any of those (Lemmy fucking loves The Onion, right?) then this news should concern you a bit.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 year ago
cbarrick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m calling it now.
The A.V. Club, Gizmodo, and Kotaku are getting merged in 2024.
shrodes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Last I heard I think they had lost or fired 7 Editor in Chiefs across their holdings in the past 8 months or so. From what I’ve heard they are run pretty terribly for the people that work there and G/O just general
The former Kotaku EIC in particular did not have nice things to say about them on The Games Press podcast
dan1101@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I always saw Jezebel as sort of celebrity tabloid, guess I wasn’t there in the golden days or just didn’t give it a chance.
realharo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s a bit funny because people on Lemmy seem to viscerally hate all online advertising and everything connected to it, yet here many of them are, lamenting the end of a company caused by not enough ad revenue.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Nope, still don’t care.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
wow so brave, thanks for commenting to show how little you care…?
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, they’re allowed to comment. You don’t have to only have a positive opinion to be allowed to make a comment
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I didn’t say they’re not allowed to comment. It was a shitty and useless comment, and I’m allowed to point that out. Thanks.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’m just as entitled to my opinion as you are to yours.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I didn’t find anything wrong with your opinion, and I never said you weren’t entitled to anything. I’m just pointing out the dumb irony of taking the time to comment on something that you supposedly DON’T care about. If you really didn’t care, you would have kept scrolling.