The other shoe (is a dildo, apparently):
Hi, this is the new owner of The Believer. We purchased the website to keep the archives up. Our goal is to bring back the magazine, but since it was losing tens of thousands a month we need to get it making money using SEO then use that to bring back all the original writers.— The Sex Toy Collective (@ST_Collective_) May 9, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 05:28 (one year ago) link
a true literary clusterfuck
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 12:19 (one year ago) link
A little more context: McSweeney's was supposedly interested in buying it back, but UNLV sold it to the Sex Toy Collective instead.
Alright. Here’s what happened. I left The Believer in July, and a few months later its parent institution, the Black Mountain Institute based at UNLV, announced it was shuttering the magazine. It went up for sale. https://t.co/wB5TDrOrgD— Kristen Radtke (@KristenRadtke) May 10, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
I wonder how many writers are going to come back to The Believer (NSFW)
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
Introducing The Believer's audience (and a sizable percentage of its writers, probably) to the concept of sex can only be a good thing.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link