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

Magary's formal farewell

https://drewmagary.kinja.com/this-is-how-it-s-gonna-work-1839505029

here's the top comment on a giz blog today. the deadspin comments are still closed pic.twitter.com/BVTFVn3dUk

— kelly bourdet (@kellybourdet) October 31, 2019

rip jawker

I truly didn't notice and I hope I am past the point in my life where I think it's fun to bother people about their typos on the internet

Really hope Dave Portnoy gets hit by a bus today

there’s a good interview with ashley feinberg on the new longform podcast for those who are interested

i miss gawker tbh, the long slow bleeding out of the rest of gmg really bums me out

Gawker was too much too soon, but would fit right into today's media (and political) landscape.

I feel like everyone left at Jezebel, The Root, and even Gizmodo/Kotaku/Jalopnik is just working with the sword of damocles over their head. What a stupid timeline.

yeah, borrowed time for all of them for sure :(

Loomis can be hyperbolic about this sort of thing but I felt he nails it here

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/10/can-quality-journalism-exist-in-an-age-of-extremist-capitalism

I also understand how to verb, once

Another departure:

OFFICIAL STATEMENT: I have self-yeeted from Deadspin

— Samer (@Samer) October 31, 2019

Barstool really has an army of halfwit fans.

Anyways, I’m done writing for Deadspin (being a permalancer means there’s no official resignation process) so if you’re interested in hiring someone to do some sports writing/blogging hit my line: gabe.fernandez1819 @ gmail dot com

— Gabe Fernandez (@thelatinochild) October 31, 2019

I just... I mean I get it, these people are vainglorious fools still tilting at AOL but the irony of a bunch of circle-jerking Old New Media Guys completely and pointedly failing to understand what made Deadspin the most vital sports-adjacent publication left standing...

like fuck guys, if you wanted to build a vortal you coulda just bought yahoo and really dominated 1999

Gawker was too much too soon, but would fit right into today's media (and political) landscape.

This really does have an end-of-an-era feel to it.

This week, as one staffer after another quit, I couldn’t help but think of one of the first Deadspin-induced moments of journalistic anxiety. In 2008, author Buzz Bissinger faced off with Will Leitch, the site’s founder, on HBO. Bissinger freaked out that real, honest-to-god reporters like him were being undercut and replaced by snotty bloggers.

The critique isn’t worth revisiting. But think about this: Now we’ve lost the snotty bloggers. The kind of churn Bissinger feared has decimated two separate categories of sportswriters. And it ain’t over.

https://www.theringer.com/2019/10/31/20942249/deadspin-g-o-media-fired-quit-sports-illustrated-maven-sports-media

then they came for the snotty bloggers and we said nothing

The difference is that bloggers were always aspiring journalists where as the current web “journalism“ is meant to feed the algorithm Of digital capitalism

bloggers cared about quality and these people do not

Yes that’s a much tighter way to phrase that

A pal of mine was just extolling the virtues of this subscription sports site, The Athletic. I've never heard of it, but I guess people like it?

And with that, it's over. Deadspin no longer employs a single writer or editor. I am gutted but so very proud of this group of people.

Deadspin was a good website.

— Megan Greenwell (@megreenwell) November 1, 2019

the Athletic employs Joe Posnanski who is my favorite baseball writer

wow

I stand with the former @Deadspin workers who decided not to bow to the greed of private equity vultures like @JimSpanfeller. This is the kind of greed that is destroying journalism across the country, and together we are going to take them on.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 1, 2019

bernie is zodiac motherfucker, confirmed

Moskovitz and McKenna closing up shop:

https://deadspin.com/transactions-nov-1-1839535889

scab getting ratioed

Guys, here's my debut for @Deadspin. I'm mildly concerned that Draymond or K.D. will show up at my door, but those are the chances we take. https://t.co/Fkr4Km96AZ

— Alan Goldsher (@AlanGoldsher) November 1, 2019

That didn't take long:

Deleting this tweet. Apology tweet to come.

— Alan Goldsher (@AlanGoldsher) November 1, 2019

saved the ratio, gahdamn pic.twitter.com/aCkwke58y3

— Thomas Cavanagh (@TJCavs_) November 1, 2019

I've listened to the room, and I'm out of Deadspin. I hear what you guys are saying, and I respect it. This clearly wasn't a good idea, and I appreciate that I was pointed in the right direction.

— Alan Goldsher (@AlanGoldsher) November 1, 2019

that was quick

Damn

looking at his tweets since that apology tweet, he may be the first person whose life has improved as result of using twitter

Thank you https://t.co/zZ6hZVS2r1 pic.twitter.com/hnWEyTVPRY

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) November 1, 2019

Anyway now they're trying this:

Paul Maidment is pulling old freelance bits and republishing them with reset time stamps, in order to make the site appear fresh. there is no note acknowledging the republishing of two-year-old content

— Chris Thompson (@MadBastardsAll) November 1, 2019

at least he's figured out the cms

watch what this does for the jez/fix/jalopnik numbers

ugh fu autocorrect jez/giz/jalopnik

quality writing now being posted by the site itself

https://deadspin.com/springboks-kill-lions-1839563281

Another funny thing is that even people who haven’t worked there in 2 years understand Kinja better than they do! pic.twitter.com/Wgr9D8lLUB

— Kevin Draper (@kevinmdraper) November 2, 2019

They killed kinja over the herb blog https://t.co/sOT8W1SD50

— Laura Wagner (@laurawags) November 4, 2019

lmao these thin-skinned motherfuckers

lol @ these new zombie posts they're publishing

Now I can’t stop rubbernecking, but it’s nice to see they got the woke voice down pic.twitter.com/KcS4B5v2Sq

— Normcore Rockwell (@holycalamity) November 3, 2019

Lol this is a hilariously bad take

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/11/04/deadspins-downfall-serves-as-a-cautionary-tale-for-overbearing-managers/amp/

totally actionable tho

Gosh that was poor. It's the kind of un-self-aware personality-less filler that characterises Forbes' output. The writer doesn't seem to be familiar with Deadspin or even understand the nature of freelance work. He argues that the site's freelancers should have swallowed their pride and written about sports - or if they didn't want to do that they should leave, which is what they did. Even his attempt to characterise Deadspin's writers as as bunch of woke social justice warriors felt half-hearted. A good writer would have at least chucked in a couple of examples of some bad writing at Deadspin.

Isn’t forbes the OG legacy media company to be transformed into a soulless content farm?

sort of makes sense they’d step in to defend GMO media or whatever it’s called, under the guise of critiquing “both sides”