hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

Senior Week has wandered into Challops Country

pale imitation of racket teen anyway

Why was I surprised this turned out to be a HamNo post

http://gawker.com/wear-your-shorts-proudly-men-786226991

he's from florida

Was that some kind of dare to get him through a whole post about legs without extolling the virtues of squatting?

last bids accepted 5pm today; we really should've kickstarted

maybe we can negotiate to buy a sub-blog from whoever takes over the assets

i'm in for $20 if we can get thecuck

I just want Dog

iirc dog was an independent contributor and hireable without buying a site

Thankfully it looks like all of Dog is on archive.org. Nice!

They should include Gawker Media in one of their Amazon affiliate "Today's Best Deals" posts

¡univision!

the shitlords are gonna flip out (more)

http://www.recode.net/2016/8/16/12504008/univision-is-buying-gawker-media-for-135-million

http://gawker.com/carefully-groomed-stubble-is-a-mark-of-low-moral-charac-1648477161

where else can journalists sub-piece their own bosses

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/opinion/peter-thiel-the-online-privacy-debate-wont-end-with-gawker.html

hamilton nolan: worst person of all time ever named hamilton?

no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

100 children vs. millions of impressionable future new yorkers

compulsive cannibalism vs obsession with the purity of yogurt

Greta Van Susteren @greta
Why is Gawker worth so much? Could the buyers not go to domain.com or @GoDaddy and buy a domain for $3?

gets it

lol

@melbournecoal
Per a source, Univision does "not intend to keep operating Gawker.com."

i wonder if gawker included non competes in the employment contracts

Folding it into the Onion?

http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-1785455712

Why would Univision buy a company it plans to shutter?

Oh the other websites. Duh

The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites

damn.

aww :( rip gawker, you were great and infuriating and awful and hilarious

Yeah, I bitched about the site constantly but I also read it constantly.

Explain this to a simpleton like me plz: why is Gawker shutting down but all the sister sites like Jezebel/deadspin/io9 staying up, when the whole franchise was purchased?

univision purchased the other brands but not gawker.

i imagine that they feel the gawker brand is damaged goods, that the other brands are more valuable separated from the original..

univision owns fusion, right?

i never read fusion but it's kind of a gawker-esque site, right?

probably because it duplicates other portions of the univision/fusion empire?

Man, dump all your blind items online and go out with a bang!

rip

:'(

why doesn't univision sell gawker.com and keep the rest? more trouble than it's worth?

it's got a huge judgment against it

ive got a huge judgment against you

rowr

wasn't the word some time back that gawker's interesting properties were not actually all that profitable or were being subsidized by like the gadget website or whatever?

univision purchased the other brands but not gawker.

i imagine that they feel the gawker brand is damaged goods, that the other brands are more valuable separated from the original..

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, August 18, 2016 1:21 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no univision bought gawker media which owns all of it. your 2nd sentence is accurate afaik

hmmm, some of the articles seemed to imply they only bought certain properties. but i guess you're right.

if univision purchased gawker media, does that mean they "purchased" the judgement levied against the company by the court? that is, does univision now owe peter thiel?

(ha, i almost typed "own peter thief"--if only.)

no idea how that works, don't even know how to guess

Reading the informal obits posted by friends on FB, I realized, surprised, that I never read more than a couple of Gawker-related stories a month – if that. Only by referral too.

i still get mixed up by the proliferation of clickbait blogs in the mid-2000s. they really all blur together for me. i think i was just busy in grad-school coursework when other folks were able to attend to the differences between all the various brands...

(also the period when i scarcely posted here. some may wish for those days to return.)

according to this article from fortune magazine:

And what happens after the auction? The new owner takes possession of the assets, and the amount they paid goes into an escrow account to await the final decision in the Hogan case, which Gawker appealed. It has been on hold since the company filed for bankruptcy.

If Gawker loses, then all the proceeds from the sale go to Hogan. But if Gawker wins a reduced judgement, some of it may go to Denton and the other Gawker investors, including a venture fund that put money in earlier this year.