This guy absolutely hates any sort of freedom, that much is obvious. That guy is a fearmonger of the highest order.
They give money to Adrian Chen, a guy who faked a suicide here on reddit. He’s just some douche who got lucky in life. “President of Gawker” isn’t exactly a prestigious title. I think the inciting incident in the “blackball” of Gawker was when the president pretended to be a terminal cancer patient on reddit to illicit sympathy, was found out, and then mocked reddit for believing him at all. The whole mess started when Adrian Chen decided to troll /r/AskReddit by faking cancer, and the thing snowballed from there. You’ve got the egg before the chicken there. He tricked reddit with a fake AMA, they got mad that their gullibility was shown. I know you’re a part of the dredge of society on the Internet that is Gawker, but if you want your readers to respect you then start by respecting your readers. You think this will be your only exclusive? Then stop acting like it was. I know you’re not trying to emulate The New York Times, but if you have any respect for your craft as a journalist, then start by applying some maturity to your writing style. Much of its international revenues are directed through Hungary, where the tech side of the company was originally based out of and it uses a shell company in the Caymans to avoid having nearly any taxable income.ĭenton thinks he is smarter than everyone, including usability experts, designers, his audience, etc. The whole entity is operates like an international money laundering organization. I’ll give you one guess where Gawker Media Group, Inc is based out of. Who is running the Kinja network?įun fact: one of Gawker’s favorite things to do over the past couple of years is attack large corporations, Republicans, etc for using the Cayman Islands as tax shelters. That and their sister site Jezebel, which recently paid $10,000 for some unretouched Lena Dunham pics to make some point about the artifice of entertainment. The New Yorker had a great piece on all this back when Nick Denton took control of Gawker by forcing out Chris Batty.Įver since Denton took over, Gawker has made more and more questionable decisions - iPhonegate, the whole “Fuck you contributors” post by Joel Johnson, and articles becoming less and less researched, and more just reposts/tweets linking to other sites. Gawker is just a Reddit feed reader with a Hipster-Docuhe filter turned on. I still remember before they were part of the gawker network. It’s too bad jalopnik had to be thrown into this mess. Nick Denton is.ĭenton founded Gawker and owns it but the editor-in-chief is Remy Stern. Richard Blakeley isn’t the editor-in-chief. Who in their right mind can even conjure the idea of a Gawker acquisition? Am I alone in this? Gawker, Jezebel, Gizmodo, Kotaku, io9 and Deadspin are second-hand garbage. Lifehacker and Jalopnik are the only ones that can be saved from that group. I feel like the Gawker Media group is worse than the Daily Mail and Fox News put together. They wanted more hits and more hate hits, you know, like “OMG you won’t believe what this IDIOT wrote - link.” It’s called link bait. I feel like Gawker has baited us for page views. Gawker has always been one to violate copyright for fun and profit. The Gawker crowd is a pretty strange lot that seem to be universally convinced that they are the golden content creators of the internet. Gawker is a great example of the leftist lynch mob. Gawker has exposed and slandered plenty of people and organizations that did not deserve it.
It’s a lot of gossip and news-type stuff. Gawker is a decentralized blog network, meaning a bunch of independent contributors write articles that get featured on Gawker, who then pays them a cut of the advertising revenue. The foundation of the brand was started by a celebrity stalker. WHAT WAS GAWKERĭo you guys even remember how Gawker got started? The original website was called gawker stalker and it was supposed to be a TMZ type of site that would provide the location and info of celebrities in NYC. What else will be left?Īnd: what will we remember of a network of blogs called “Gawker Media”? Here is the collected wisdom on the topic of Gawker from Reddit over the years, in the words of Redditors themselves. When the history of the web is written, the final word will obviously belong to Reddit.
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