Let's talk about Vice Magazine

wow

Putting that Murdoch cash to good use.

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

lmao

Seeing loads of articles about how drinking alcohol and taking drugs are bad for you coming from Vice recently, what's up with that

court mandated following the coke bust

Ahhhh that's interesting

extra lolz

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAM91HTUAAEE1OQ.jpg

o rly

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DANORTuVwAAHndQ.jpg

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.

Vice Sports shut down today, also Thump, possibly more?

Thump was hit or miss but I'm sad if it's shutting down

I was to understand the Vice empire was worth billions of dollars

Does anyone else have a problem with their pages loading?....maybe I'm better off..

Welp

https://www.thedailybeast.com/unsafe-and-just-plain-dirty-women-accuse-vice-of-toxic-sexual-harassment-culture

the least surprising of all

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

I'm really interested in this show - Ross, should I watch the web series first or start with the first TV series?

fuck these people and their garbage programming

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 :)

Something's up

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/30/media/vice-media-firings-workplace-conduct/index.html

xp it's not just the name, when you watch it they get money

^ fair point sleeve

Vice now just seems like "Internet Content, But With A Sneer(TM)"

That wasn't intended to be related to sexual harassment allegations, which I also agree are not surprising.

xxxp, good job torrents exist then. Thanks Ross, will do that.

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

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

The NYT article apparently barely scratched the surface.

that thread is just... ugh. what a caravan of sleazers, operating in open view.

?

I mean the Vice higher-ups behaving so sleazily.

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

damn

there it is

capital gonna capital

the rise of the alt right, explained

lol even the Viceland sex show (Slutever) had to have a weed episode

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEWpvc1XoAEmiZl?format=png&name=small

whoops

i warned you about colorization bro. i told u dawg https://t.co/7N007t2zwV

— bunny yeager air combat (@3liza) April 10, 2021

Wtf did this dude think he was doing?!

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...

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.

from the image in that piece i’d say peter thiel definitely subsists on the blood of innocent children

He is a spectacularly vampiric dude.

He's high on the list of dicks whose deaths I will loudly and gloriously celebrate.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/media/vice-end-news-shows-layoffs/index.html