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 (two 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 (two 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
from the image in that piece i’d say peter thiel definitely subsists on the blood of innocent children
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 4 March 2022 12:36 (two years ago) link
He is a spectacularly vampiric dude.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 March 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
He's high on the list of dicks whose deaths I will loudly and gloriously celebrate.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Friday, 4 March 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/media/vice-end-news-shows-layoffs/index.html
― omar little, Thursday, 9 November 2023 18:27 (four months ago) link