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

http://gawker.com/the-only-thing-that-would-make-us-feel-better-is-if-you-1785515822

parting shots fired

haha damn

max's article doesn't finger the real culprit that killed gawker which obv was ilx.

the thing is, it really was just thiel who killed gawker. like all these other things made everything harder and worse and pushed people out of its corner. but it wasn't the other stuff that made them lose the case, and the case was the binary option on which everything hinged.

Yup

do we know if gawker dot com was itself profitable (or was it the vanity project bankrolled by gizmodo & co by the end), modulo hogan? I feel like the answer is yes and univision just don't want the present value of all future lawsuits

my sense, based on absolutely nothing, is that it was profitable but in a *really* small peanuts way within the current media landscape

Sounds about right

pretty sure daulerio killed gawker?

good-ass kinja failed to save gawker

need a gawkeresque investigation into why denton so loved the name 'kinja'

wondered if it meant 'golden future' in some obscure language but it seems it might actually mean 'feces' in malay

what seems to be missing from most of this stuff is why terry bollea's -- let alone hulk hogan's -- violated privacy is worth $140m when (i'm told) wrongful death payouts average like $3.5m. florida courts, i guess?

juries, man

uh those people weren't famous wrestlers and they didn't have to live with any indignity. only die with it, obv

i wonder if kinja was named kinja because it was a five-letter domain name that was available for relatively cheap in 2004. sites have been given names for stupider reasons.

i think it was named kinja as a reference to the popular slang "good-ass kinja"

it's an anagram of jknia, short for jkniajkflejjdsnsmsjjick, which is an expressionistic way to convey frustration by mashing a bunch ok keys

given the chance gawker will always report on married c-suite executives of major media companies fucking around on their wives

— max read (@max_read) July 17, 2015

RIP

ugh yes i thought max's obit was decent but for fuck's sake stop saying 'c-suite'

http://www.csuiteinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/csuite-status-featured.png

at least gawker stuck around just long enough to get another ilxor's legal name mentioned on st***f***t

Starfleet?

max's continual usage of the phrase "c-suite" gives me ptsd

do we know if gawker dot com was itself profitable (or was it the vanity project bankrolled by gizmodo & co by the end), modulo hogan? I feel like the answer is yes and univision just don't want the present value of all future lawsuits

― flopson, Friday, August 19, 2016 7:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my sense, based on absolutely nothing, is that it was profitable but in a *really* small peanuts way within the current media landscape

― mookieproof, Friday, August 19, 2016 7:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

gawker dot com was profitable yes. i'm not sure if it was "really small peanuts" or just "small peanuts" but it's also always been a pretty small site on its own. there was only a small period where even 20 people worked there. so from what i've heard the raw revenue/profit number would not make your eyes bulge by any means but the profit margin was pretty good bcuz of pretty low overhead.

so i guess you're saying it was....... nothing to gawk at?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand they're not done yet

http://gawker.com/report-trumps-real-estate-holdings-are-at-least-650-m-1785539977

http://gawker.com/hillary-is-asleep-thats-where-1785540817

http://gawker.com/judge-recommends-criminal-charges-be-brought-against-ar-1785542871

Direct links and excerpts from investigative journalism in the NYT and Trump's twitter account constitute evidence of an active bullpen?

http://gawker.com/fuck-it-1785571359

Nevermind.

Still waiting for a proper send off from Dog.

http://gawker.com/how-things-work-1785604699

Ugh

this is excellent: http://gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581

i'm really not gonna know what to read instead of working anymore :-/.

xp TL;DR - straining sinew and muscle, even more punchable than you can imagine an article called "How things work" by Nick Denton could possibly be. Their only flaw is that if anything, they were too awesome.

So close to an anagram of dick on net

good god Nick Denton still doesn't get it

Also, this:

http://washingtonbabylon.com/a-gawker-post-mortem-the-inside-story-of-the-trial-its-dirty-pr-campaign-and-the-russian-oligarch-who-sponsored-nick-dentons-legal-case/

Lol @ Nick Denton claiming "Gawker made douche cross over as a word." dude has never seen E.T. fuckin idiot.

rip ppl writing dumb things on the internet ~never forget~

i'm really not gonna know what to read instead of working anymore :-/

jezebel, gizmodo, lifehacker, deadspin, kotaku etc etc etc

have you guys checked out fusion, pretty cool little site

@Gladwell
If @Gawker is so important to democracy why don't they start it up again? It's not like they have to spend 300 million on printing presses.

*blinks*

I mean, its a dumb thing to say but it's literally what the Ringer did

finally, commentary from the glad one

That’s where WashingtonBabylon.com comes in. I’m going to cover DC politicians and journalists like Hollywood celebrities — not the way they are worshiped by our current media masters, but the way they were mocked and exposed by the great Hollywood tabloid Confidential and by Kenneth Anger in his wonderful, lurid book Hollywood Babylon.

You want stories about Bill Clinton shacking up with two blondes at a luxury DC hotel? Coming right up. You want to know how deeply Hillary Clinton has been penetrated by Wall Street? I’m on it. You’re wondering if Donald Trump has his brain up his ass or if he doesn’t have one at all? I can answer that question. A Democrat with a coke problem? A Republican family values man whoring around town? Trust me, these things are happening right now and I will have the details.

thank god, i thought i was going to have to read a newspaper

It wasn't funny. It was possibly rape. I was trying to kind of put it in that same category [as the Dallas video]. I didn't really look at the thing close enough to realize there's maybe something a little more sinister going on here and a little more disturbing. In a way, though, what could be more gawker? They were exciting times. Looking back, it was the best summer of my life.

I keep typing "gaw", which has been one of my ingrained habits when I get bored of whatever I'm supposed to be working on, a la "il" for ilxor. Of course, if I just reverse "il", I get "li" which will bring up Lifehacker. Lifehack! Things are getting easier already.

https://thehairpin.com/blog-you-idiots-86995e96d5d5#.jole73exp

this was good, it reminded me of our own nakhchivan in its funny, eagle-eyed bile

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/legacy-of-snark-why-gawker-mattered-w435504

Snark lives all over the Internet and will continue to be pervasive whether it's living at Gawker or not.

"Analysis" about Gawker is hilariously shallow every time.