Let's talk about Vice Magazine

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