VICE began as part of a welfare program by the Canadian government
http://i.skyrock.net/3868/16033868/pics/594077655_small.jpg
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 18 February 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
Oh, I definitely remember their early-oughts issues being rife with "ironic" racism/transphobia/homophobia/misogyny; I'm just curious whether that was their tack from their beginnings as a Montreal community zine. (I mean, Gavin McInnes was there from the beginning, so I kind of can't expect too much of their early years.)Xp
― one way street, Thursday, 18 February 2016 01:02 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EdAkTSc.pnglol what is Vice anymore?? the only thing that i click on anymore is the foodie stuff
― Forever LXI (rip van wanko), Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
Viceland the TV channel is unnerving. Aside from Action Bronson every show sounds the same, every host has the same bored, disaffected tone.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
https://news.vice.com/article/were-suing-the-irs-for-audits-of-donald-trumps-tax-returns
― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
since when are personal, private tax returns subject to FOIA requests
VICE is such a shitty, stupid operation
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/molecular-marijuana/5848830b7d3c36935920d070
Viceland has a weed cooking show. With the most annoying Top Chef contestant on the first episode, they may have reached Peak Vice.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 15 December 2016 04:58 (seven years ago) link
The idea of multi-course edibles meals with THC infused wine is absolutely terrifying to me - edibles are so touchy about dose anyway and wouldn't start to hit until after you were two more courses in.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 15 December 2016 04:59 (seven years ago) link
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/how-an-editor-allegedly-used-vice-canada-to-recruit-drug-mules-for-a-global-smuggling-ring
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
wow
― maura, Friday, 3 February 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
Putting that Murdoch cash to good use.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 3 February 2017 01:00 (seven years ago) link
Uh @VICE not to edit-shame you or anything but the author of this article put herself in the article as a subject pic.twitter.com/YjlRAmNPN7— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) May 19, 2017
hustlin
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 May 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
lmao
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
Seeing loads of articles about how drinking alcohol and taking drugs are bad for you coming from Vice recently, what's up with that
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
court mandated following the coke bust
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
Ahhhh that's interesting
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
extra lolz
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAM91HTUAAEE1OQ.jpg
o rly
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DANORTuVwAAHndQ.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 May 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
I know people are tired of VICE, but "Nirvanna The Band The Show" is an excellent mockumentary/sitcom. By that I mean the main actors try to set up a gig at the Rivioli and in the process devise all manners of publicity stunts that involve real citizens/non-actors. It hits a groove by its third episode, but it's a rare Canadian sitcom that is this truly funny or inventive. With 3 seasons planned, I imagine it will gain traction eventually.
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Friday, 2 June 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
Vice Sports shut down today, also Thump, possibly more?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 July 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
Thump was hit or miss but I'm sad if it's shutting down
― mh, Friday, 21 July 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
I was to understand the Vice empire was worth billions of dollars
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 21 July 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Does anyone else have a problem with their pages loading?....maybe I'm better off..
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 21 July 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
Welp
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
https://www.thedailybeast.com/unsafe-and-just-plain-dirty-women-accuse-vice-of-toxic-sexual-harassment-culture
the least surprising of all
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 17 November 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
Nirvanna the band the show is in season 2 and curiously slept on. Mining the early 90s hard (especially 1990-93) for movie/pop culture references, it's a situational comedy like curb in spirit but the mockumentary out-in-the-streets moments make it a thing of its own. Highly recommended
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Thursday, 30 November 2017 05:39 (six years ago) link
I'm really interested in this show - Ross, should I watch the web series first or start with the first TV series?
― NI, Thursday, 30 November 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
fuck these people and their garbage programming
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 November 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
shakey, i understand that sentiment and agree for the most part, but this show is good and just marred by the vice name.
NI - start with the tv series, web series isn't as good or fleshed out, can always go backwards later :)
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 1 December 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
Something's up
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/30/media/vice-media-firings-workplace-conduct/index.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 December 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
xp it's not just the name, when you watch it they get money
― sleeve, Friday, 1 December 2017 04:21 (six years ago) link
^ fair point sleeve
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 1 December 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
Vice now just seems like "Internet Content, But With A Sneer(TM)"
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 1 December 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
That wasn't intended to be related to sexual harassment allegations, which I also agree are not surprising.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 1 December 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
xxxp, good job torrents exist then. Thanks Ross, will do that.
― NI, Sunday, 3 December 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
if you're not a ratings-reporting household, then watching on TV sends them no money
though if you do have the option of sending them a message that the specific content you approve of should be their focus, then watching it is a good way of doing that
or writing a letter to Spike Jonze I guess
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Monday, 4 December 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
if anyone at vice wants to anonymously send me the things they wish they could tweet right now i'll just fire 'em off for ya— Robyn Kanner (@robynkanner) December 23, 2017
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 December 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
The NYT article apparently barely scratched the surface.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 December 2017 10:09 (six years ago) link
that thread is just... ugh. what a caravan of sleazers, operating in open view.
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Sunday, 24 December 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
?
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 24 December 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
I mean the Vice higher-ups behaving so sleazily.
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Sunday, 24 December 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
so much of this discussion reminds me of riot grrrl imagery -- where they attempted to establish a 'look' for themselves placing traditional female imagery and once-derogatory slogans into the context of punk rock clothing started off as sly commentary, but were soon co-opted by companies looking to make a buck off 'princess' and 'i stole your boyfriend' t-shirts for 11-year-olds. (see also: the wholesale erasure-of-SLUT-from-bare-midriff that made gwen stefani so initially successful.)so wouldn't that sort of cycle be eventually repeated if the arguments momus espouses hold true -- and wouldn't the underlying message of these mass-marketed uses of these words, then, also mutate into an affirmation of already-existing prejuidices that are held by the majority of americans, for the simple purpose of making as many dollars as possible?― maura (maura), Monday, October 14, 2002 12:26 PM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so wouldn't that sort of cycle be eventually repeated if the arguments momus espouses hold true -- and wouldn't the underlying message of these mass-marketed uses of these words, then, also mutate into an affirmation of already-existing prejuidices that are held by the majority of americans, for the simple purpose of making as many dollars as possible?
― maura (maura), Monday, October 14, 2002 12:26 PM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
damn
― omar little, Sunday, 24 December 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
there it is
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 24 December 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
capital gonna capital
― maura, Sunday, 24 December 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
the rise of the alt right, explained
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
lol even the Viceland sex show (Slutever) had to have a weed episode
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 19 February 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEWpvc1XoAEmiZl?format=png&name=small
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 September 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
whoops
i warned you about colorization bro. i told u dawg https://t.co/7N007t2zwV— bunny yeager air combat (@3liza) April 10, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 April 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
Wtf did this dude think he was doing?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
Not terribly shocking, but...
Vice Media secretly organised $20m Saudi government festival
When social media influencers turned up at the Azimuth music festival in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert they were promised a festival of musical and gastronomic excess, all subsidised by an arm of the Saudi government.
What attendees did not know was that the pricey music festival was secretly organised by youth media company Vice, as part of the media company’s ongoing push to make money in the Middle Eastern state despite the country’s poor human rights record.
Just three years after Vice publicly announced that it was pausing all work in Saudi Arabia due to the fallout from the state-ordered murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi, insiders at Vice told the Guardian the company was once again aggressively pursuing business opportunities in Saudi Arabia...
Hey they said they were 'pausing' work in the kingdom, so...
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
This article doesn't directly have to do with Vice, though it mentions it, but I didn't want to start a whole thread just for it: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/peter-thiel-anti-woke-film-festival-trevor-bazile
Posting it here because the whole vibe of this Thiel-funded film festival feels extremely early-Vice to me, the "post-Left" or "post-woke" thing is such a retread of anti-PC shtick of the late '90s/early '00s. Except arguably even more cynical. It's also a sad story about Trevor Bazile, who kind of floats through it like a ghost. And of course several of the organizers are guys with histories of sexual harassment. It's a rancid scene.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 March 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link