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

*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

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gizmodo-medias-turmoil-continues-40-staffers-take-buyouts

Bustle's Bryan Goldberg just won the gawker auction apparently, giving this title a new lease on life

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dh67oQWXkAIs4-D.jpg

Hot blogging action

So Not Gonna Hot take

yourownlapexclusivelytops

Splinter guest columnist Dinesh D’Souza https://t.co/pIMpNyzoLr

— Quinoa🖕Appropriator (@MattAlwaysWrong) August 19, 2018

I feel like the Gizmodo Media Group deserves its own separate thread as this point

Splinter News pic.twitter.com/nB0KILqv8B

— jared's evidence-based email acct (@eliot_woodrich) December 6, 2018

incisive

i was excited when splinter got going and seemed to position itself as explicitly left leaning with the sharpness of old school gawker but man have they run out of steam. fuckin clickonomics.

Oops. How could they mess up like this?!!

today in dangers of bad aggregation - this entire story from last night seems to think the pelosi-schumer meeting already happened (it has not, it happens today): https://t.co/ogwbVqCAuN

— Justin Sink (@justinsink) December 11, 2018

i was excited when splinter got going and seemed to position itself as explicitly left leaning with the sharpness of old school gawker but man have they run out of steam. fuckin clickonomics.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, December 7, 2018 9:47 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*very depressed voice* otm

yeah :(

and it kills me that they've got writers who could be great if they were less concerned about forcing the 'nihilst satire' tone on the whole universe

a thing i always loved about gawker was that it was very political but not about politics

i feel like splinter emerged to say who and what is bad right at the exact moment that saying who and what is bad feels particularly useless

The 'A Note on Drew' post is weird.

HOSPITAL NURSE: Oh you can wipe better than this

ME: Well yeah but why would I do that here

— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) December 21, 2018

Drew lives!

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/2018-the-year-in-ideas-a-review-of-ideas_us_5c242fc1e4b05c88b6fd6011?ec_carp=7844617672228401945

this is so good

lmao @ the Jeet tweet

Max on Chris Hayes last night