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

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.

yeah, it's a bankruptcy reorg -- there's gawker the entity that has the lawsuit liability, and the group of blogs known as gawker media which are what was sold. the proceeds of the sale go to the former, with the money tied up in courts. the owner of the latter entity don't hold the liabilities

will gawker finally answer whether or not it plagiarized nabisco?

ask a puppy

http://dog.gawker.com/

Gawker has seemed like the center of the Internet to me for some time in both good and bad ways. I've complained about some of the things they did that seemed mean or invasive but I never stopped reading. In hindsight I probably took their independence for granted. I remember once Max held an "open discussion" with the readers on the commenting system but then sort of berated the commenters who asked stupid questions. What other site had that kind of an honest relationship with its readers? It was refreshing in a world where journalism is increasingly becoming flattened into just another commodity.

In hindsight I probably took their independence for granted.

no shit

when i think about how gawker is disappearing while stuff like upworthy thrives it kind of makes me want to -- i don't know -- kill myself

the last thing I read on Gawker before it was announced that it would be shuttered was a link to an esquire article about Jared Kushner, who has owned the New York Observer for 10 years and has turned it into a plaything which he uses to pursue various grudges. But a long time before that, the NYO had ceded its central position re: NY media to Gawker.

Like Treeship, Gawker has been the hub of my internet since 2003. I learned about most shit that I would talk about with my friends or what you needed to know as a working journalist there. I also worked steadily for the music blog curated by Maura J. and this other guy who got me involved that Gawker did in 2006-2009 which I 'm sure you guys remember. I was proud to work under the Gawker umbrella and am grateful as such, but mostly I don't know what my main internet artery for what the fuck is going on will now be.