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

lol. can't wait till my screenplay for "ilx the musical" gets picked up.

Is this why Max deleted his Twitter account?

we should all delete our twitter accounts, don't need a reason really

Over/under on the box office of a Gawker movie: $275

max deleted his twitter??

He deleted his FB recently too (I use FBPurity and it tells you when ppl close out account and you defriend as a result)

that means all that's left of max's digital life...is here

*loud sound*

damn are we srsly gonna have to get Apple+ to watch this?

do it for the Posts

Max helping line zucks pockets smh

ilplex imo

Noticed that The Outline also got bought by Bustle and then immediately fired everyone.

A thing:

https://defector.com/

More on same:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/business/media/deadspin-staffers-start-defector.html

I never would have guessed in a million years that Defector was the name of a sports blog

good motto

lol I can't keep track of all of the "new-Gawker" spinoffs

so Splinter was the "new Gawker" but that's gone now and then has anything taken its place?

Not really. And unlike Splinter, which was just a lot of the Gawker folks in a new guise but under the old setup, this is wholly independent.

commenting being a premium feature is innovative stuff, kudos

It’s only a slight change from old school Gawker commenting, you had to work to be a starred commenter!

more independent media = good. I wish them luck.

we should make new ilx posts cost 25 cents each

I’d pay it

I should have to pay for all my old posts

shocked the 69$/yr tier isn't called "nice"

if I were in their shoes I might consider one lower tier for just pod content or something. 6 bucks a month may not seem like a lot but they're not the only patron funded game in town

a $1.50 tier that gives you access to a page with nothing on it but a link to deadspin.com

the premium commenting feature is a good way to weed out trolls (from barstool)

I listened to the Magary/Roth pod quite a lot but honestly it was only OK. then again, I'm not sure I would pay for even the pods I like better, almost all of them are just a few people bullshitting for an hour about subjects I just happen to find interesting.

looking forward to the eventual retrospective book, Gawker Dudes: What the Fuck Was Wrong With You?

they should charge extra to hide the comments

sure I'm going to be called a humorless neoliberal feminist or whatever for this but at some point they could consider changing the name of the "funbag" thing because it's fucking gross

nah i think that's a perfectly good idea, it's a holdover from cruder days that Magary has otherwise largely renounced and I doubt he has any real deep attachment to the name, so hopefully they will drop it with Defector.

it's in their site copy so doesn't look like it

what is the funbag thing? like a mailbag segment? and now we'll dive into the....funbag? that doesn't even make sense

that's what it is

one cool thing about the funbag is that no one knows exactly what's in there, it could be anything

heading to the post office. anyone need boobs?

hold on, let me check the funbag just in case

nope, no boobs in the funbag, go ahead and pick up some please!

Just one giant funbag, centered

$69 is a hard sell when the Athletic is only $50ish (or free with my T-Mobile account)

I think they're doing pretty different things, and even though I've never subscribed to The Athletic so I can't say 100% for sure, I think Deadspin/Defector has better writers, unless you're just strictly looking for reporting from your sportswriting.

There's a fair bit of overlap in the way they cover sports, the columnists and non-sports stuff seemed like a Deadspin bonus

i pay $1.25 a month for the athletic, which employs like a million writers

i don't think they have comparable business models at all, i doubt defector is going to get a lot of outside funding. they're just relying on having enough old deadspin fans with money to throw around.

but the athletic is relying on venture capitalists not getting bored so...

the athletic is modeled off your local sports page, deadspin always branded itself as the anti-sports page

oh i don't assume that either model is in any way stable xp

if all the contributors on that masthead become full-time employees they need like 13,000 annual subscribers at $69 a year to pay them all $50,000 a year, plus a bunch more to pay for the CMS and so on. That'd be a very high conversion rate of the erstwhile pre-ratfucking deadspin audience, but it's also not an objectively large number of customers. Your Kickstarter Sucks, a podcast which I suspect is a more niche taste than "posts about sports", has 3,000+ Patreon subscribers.

maybe the premium-subscriber model isn't stable but at least if that money dries up or doesn't pan out at least it's not because some jowly moron in a bad suit thinks he knows your business