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

lol

so the superstar machine thing came to mind last week, and i genuinely hope it was just me hearing about a weird cult thing and then reading something that reminded me of it and not a real reference

finally went back and finished melissa broder's "so sad today" book that she did after having some success with the twitter account and there's a brief aside where, becoming sober, she says she ended up finding a group that helped and to contact her via email if you have any questions about it

i mean, i'm 99% sure it's AA or a similar meeting group, but there was this jarring "oh no what if she's actually involved with this superstar thing" moment! hearing about groups like this always plants that seed of doubt, wondering who all these people meeting are and if i'd know of them

lol at Tombot going h on carpet_k here and then being Captain Save-a-Stevolende two days later

It's a strange one alright even tho obv it's not a total parallel

blame flopson

the John Cook send-off is a good read. I've really enjoyed all of their roast posts for departing staff. Denton might be a bit of an asshat, but he did allow a lot of very good and smart people to inhabit what seems to have been an incredibly collegial environment under frequently terrible circumstances (often self-inflicted, as many of these godspeed pieces have suggested, and as this thread itself generally argues)

https://specialprojectsdesk.kinja.com/how-can-you-mend-a-broken-shitheart-1819115519

i love the roasts/send-offs

nick denton was the best boss i ever had who i wasn't already friends with

at least when he was selling off idolator he was honest about why, you know? instead of being a shithead about it

That’s cool. Never met the guy.

I’ve learned there’s often a chasm between good boss and good employee. And when the latter concept starts squeezing on the former, the turnover rate almost reaches the spectrum of human hearing.

john cook wrote a book about superchunk so while i don't know him i <3 him

'fuck you'

so that shitty media men list huh

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2136064924/save-gawkercom

$32,724 pledged of $500,000 goal

Maybe we overemphasized the importance of Gawker?

it's two days into a 30 day pledge drive and I've only seen a little bit of coverage, let alone the further information explaining who is behind it and what the plan of action would be should they raise the funds

my guess is that they'll soon be announcing private investors to pair w/ the publicly raised money bcuz 500k doesn't get you very far in trying to buy a website, especially this one

i meant to say "even this one" ha -- $1 million might get it done (for the record i'm guessing completely & have no insider info on how much the site would realistically go for)

Hi sarge

are these people legit as buyers or as people to coordinate a group of buyers, is what I’m wondering

haven’t looked around on twitter but I’d expect a legit effort to have at least a subtle sign-on by the bigger names

Reuters: Peter Thiel has made an offer to buy Gawker

— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) January 11, 2018

ffs what a shithead

Lol

@GawkerMedia
#BREAKING: Peter Thiel, Genius, Saves Journalism

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/12/fashion/12THIELSUB/12THIELSUB-master768-v3.jpg

*snort*

I hope multiple somebodies have the Gawker archives backed up somewhere.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/peter-thiel-got-his-revenge-on-gawker-he-may-yet-regret-it

he won't

a chain of links off that led to the "On Smarm" article and hoo boy this argument did not age well:

One of the silliest or most misguided notions that David Denby frets about, in denouncing snark, is that "the lowest, most insinuating and insulting side threatens to win national political campaigns." This is more or less the opposite of the case.

I guess it's the opposite of the case in that they don't threaten to win national campaigns, they actually do win

Spotted in the cement in Williamsburg pic.twitter.com/Vp8TvZbw8J

— MJ Franklin (@heyitsfranklin2) March 4, 2018

And shout out to the woman who was standing next to me, also taking a photo of this cement note, who turned to me and said “we’re both trash”

I’ve never felt so seen

— MJ Franklin (@heyitsfranklin2) March 4, 2018

I'm so happy to hear that Peter Teal would like to take a meeting. I feel very optimistic about the future.

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

kanye-watching media twitter, once kanye goes alt-right: "well you see it's kind of complicated"

kanye-watching media twitter, once kanye mentions the one alt-right dude mostly known for suing the media: "OH NO"

I guess Peter Orange is the evil twin who's building villain fortresses in the middle of the ocean.

peter teal deer

We need a “splinternews folks. is everything okay?” thread

^ lol

http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/weve-read-the-hot-script-thiel-v-gawker.html

has anyone watched the Netflix Gawker/Hogan doc? is it good?

jeez is there a Netflix doc about everything?

looking forward to the Netflix series about modestmickey.

I'm currently filming that one

https://www.netflix.com/title/80168227

i made it through the first 15 minutes or so, thought it was borderline unwatchable

https://specialprojectsdesk.com/univision-is-a-fucking-mess-1825836622

Saw that this evening. Rough. "What have we got to lose?"

It very much sucks, I have become very accustomed to having heavily biased, snarky, profanity-laced news in my day-to-day.

I wasn't actually kidding when I said we needed that “splinternews folks. is everything okay?” thread

wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeuCtZLYHK8

That was a great and dispiriting article, though it took me a while to realise that the paragraph where Gawker blows smoke up its own ass regarding, uh, not being Buzzfeed, was serving as "please please someone buy us"

An answer has never quite been given, but according to Univision, while GMG—whose predecessor, Gawker Media, was characterized upon its acquisition in August 2016 as a “consistent, compelling and profitable digital media business” in a company-wide email signed by Isaac Lee—may be thriving, it did not turn a profit last year.

gimlet eye failing here for some reason.

maybe ilx can have a whip-round and buy them out