Gawker Media Poll

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shit i didnt see that one.

no, just kidding it's part of gizmodo, I think.

best jalopnik posts are the ones about cool old cars on sale. i find myself reading those with a weird amount of interest.

I thought io9 was independent now, cut loose like Fleshbot.

Oh, maybe it is it's own entity. No idea. So many sub-boards.

I love Jalopnik though. I don't even like cars all that much. But they're a great car blog.

tbh I give most of my clicks to Gawker and Jezebel, but I think iO9 is the funnest one.

how else would i find out about this awesome old truck for 20k that i now desperately want and have no need for:

http://jalopnik.com/how-about-20-000-for-a-sweet-1975-mazda-rotary-pickup-1711651407

there's like literally 50 more gawkers than this

how many of them don't have that 500 days of kristin garbage

These are the main official arms of Gawker. Each of them has numerous sub-blogs.

Is it cool if I pour one out for Idolator again? For like the thousandth time?

Gawker/Deadspin/Jezebel is some of the best internet there is, and the others are some of the worst

Deadspin and Jalopnik are neck and neck, depends on which one has better stuff on any given day

like it's so upsetting that something like the consistently awesome Jezebel, which has taught this cis whitey more bout feminism than any college class ever, has to survive on the monster traffic of plushie-fucking bouncy pixel tit blog kotaku

i think its funny how valleywag was this hot shit takedown of sf techbros for a while. the main contributor was this d-bag white tech kid that had a mission blog that consistently failed to "get it." i guess he was self hating or something. now it's a graveyard.

I loved that era of valleywag

But I think Biddle probably came upon the same realization that people like ya boy whiney and maura et al came across re music and music writing, in that it's fun/funny/exciting to call out the hypocrisy and entitlement of these manchildren/womenchildren running the shows but ultimately

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--IPwrZuI5--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/18odwyjcs21z3gif.gif

^^ so tru so tru

plushie-fucking bouncy pixel tit blog kotaku

kotaku has the worst blogger of all time, that bryan ashcraft or ashcroft guy

write-in for cink.hu

i would be surprised if jezebel didn't outperform kotaku solely based on the clickbaitier stuff it puts out rather than the well-done long kara brown type stuff, i'm not a gamer so i never go to the latter tho

valleywag is (was?) the mockery of privileged techbro douchebags by...a privileged hipsterbro douchebag, ultimately unsustainable bc how long can you playact like that

i picked deadspin bc i read it most often, jezebel is prob next on the list, then the main gawker site

valleywag is (was?) the mockery of privileged techbro douchebags by...a privileged hipsterbro douchebag, ultimately unsustainable bc how long can you playact like that

totally. dude was super bitter after he got the axe tho. acting out on social media and stuff.

well, i was honestly referring to sam biddle with that statement, but it does also apply to nick douglas! (i said ultimately unsustainable bc i thought biddle transferred to do most of his work on the main gawker site, which is only half-true as im seeing now)

never read jezebel anymore. rarely read gawker now. used to love gawker and defamer like seven years ago though.

keep forgetting how many sites are ex-gawker, like wonkette!

I really just read the main site and deadspin. jalopnik is a new addition for me. I stopped reading jezebel a few years ago out of outrage fatigue, not sure what it's like now. sounds like I should check out io9.

i initially really excited to read lifehacker but found out that I have little interesting in hacking my life.

would be interested in a gawker style health/fitness/nutrition type blog which goes light on pseudoscience and bullshit.

somehow i find myself clicking on lifehacker links every once in awhile because i'm suckered by THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK to fix my OCD and it generally involves downloading an app or a list of ten things i already know i should be doing

io9 and, oddly enough Jezebel, seem to be where the Gawkerverse concentrates a lot of their pseudoscience exposés.

io9 used to be a lot better - lately they've become much more superfan/hyper-credulous about This Upcoming Blockbuster Will Be The Greatest Movie EVER!; Check Out These 15 Behind-The-Scenes Photos type shit.

True.

kotaku has the worst blogger of all time, that bryan ashcraft or ashcroft guy

― 龜, Wednesday, June 17, 2015 5:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THE WORST. a close runner up is mike fahey who reviews japanese snack food and tween rape video games and anime and shit but also talks about his kids all the time so it's uncomfortable in like 10 different ways

imagine sharing your gawker pod w that dude

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does sam biddle not write hot shit takedowns of sf techbros anymore? what happened?

THE WORST. a close runner up is mike fahey who reviews japanese snack food and tween rape video games and anime and shit but also talks about his kids all the time so it's uncomfortable in like 10 different ways

― adam, Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

wow that sounds awful, thankfully i ahven't had a mike fahey piece linked on my TLs yet

But I think Biddle probably came upon the same realization that people like ya boy whiney and maura et al came across re music and music writing, in that it's fun/funny/exciting to call out the hypocrisy and entitlement of these manchildren/womenchildren running the shows but ultimately

writing about music writing is a billion times more lol nothing matters than writing about tech though

does sam biddle not write hot shit takedowns of sf techbros anymore?

he still does afaict, just not as frequently - divides his time between reg gawker and valleywag now that it's not just him writing every post

http://kotaku.com/the-nba-finals-as-told-through-dragonball-gifs-1712154537

high quality kotaku content

Loved this post: http://jalopnik.com/daily-driving-a-c4-corvette-may-involve-girlfriends-fla-1712275316

shdve polled the subdomains

does sam biddle not write hot shit takedowns of sf techbros anymore? what happened?

― flopson, Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:05 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he got kicked off valleywag onto regular gawker so they cld hire fake steve jobs to do valleywag then he left after like a month to join a startup lol

fake steve jobs is terrible too!

fake steve jobs was the worst

i always wanted valleywag to be (and it never really was) the zerohedge of the current tech bubble -- just spending years telling everyone that everything was doomed to failure at every opportunity even as the market contradicted it until.. suddenly.. it was absolutely right

this thread is like a gawker ad

how can i decide, they're pretty much all useless tabloid garbage

jezebel is cool

Gawker/Deadspin/Jezebel is some of the best internet there is, and the others are some of the worst

― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, June 17, 2015 10:16 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Hehe

ok lol

good quiz lotsa tricky ones

The only one I ever followed for a few weeks was Jalopnik, mostly because they're also Miata fans. Their other fixations were enough to gave me an urge to buy The Jalopnik grail car: a brown, manual transmision, Mercedez-Benz W126 station wagon from the early 80s.

i wasnt talking abt biddle fwiw

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like it's so upsetting that something like the consistently awesome Jezebel, which has taught this cis whitey more bout feminism than any college class ever

― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, June 17, 2015 5:20 PM (1 week ago)

you should prob demand your tuition money back

good-ass kinja

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iO9? rilly?

gawker.com is the only good one imo

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/video-the-resonant-frequency-of-googly-eyes-1715999628

Hamilton Nolan talks about organizing Gawker, digital media, and tech: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-antifada/episode-41-there-is-power-in-a-union-w-hamilton-no/

(Sound quality is a bit rough)

Patrick George, the EIC of Jalopnik for the past who knows how many years, quit last week. If jalopnik goes south by sideways I seriously am gonna run out of things to read for fun that aren’t ILX (and I don’t even really care about cars).

I recommend filling the hole with Instagram accounts about picturesque cabins in the snow.

Why can’t somebody just hire back all the former Gawker writers and launch it under a new name, like what Bill Simmons did going from Grantland to The Ringer?

The Ringer is backed by HBO, probably among others. Deadspin had a bunch of full-time staffers who were presumably making a decent salary with benefits. Somebody's gotta be able to pay for that in order to recreate this thing.

wasn't Deadspin still fairly profitable? would think someone with $15-20m to spend could recreate the whole thing without much liability

well there aren't tons of ppl out there looking to drop $20 million on web publishing at the moment, believe it or not

also as i posted in another thread there was 15 years of investment poured into growing the deadspin brand by basically one staff, and the way that facebook/google etc operate, you can't really just shift one website's success and traffic to another merely by hiring the same people and creating a new domain

it's true that deadspin was profitable, it also matters that it was part of a larger apparatus of also successful websites, that had entire departments of capable sales, tech, video etc teams. i'd caution ppl against the idea that you can just create something like this out of thin air and have it make money immediately

I guess that explains why it hasn't happened yet

The Ringer is probably also a warning to anyone wanting to do that with the Deadspinners - it's a lot smaller in influence than Grantland was and seems to function more as a vlog/podcast hub as a place where you go to read anyone's writing.

Yes and/but/however Grandland wasn’t as *voicey* as deadspin. I think you *might* be able to make the transition to a new URL work if you were actually able to get the team back together again for one last ride. Yes I understand precedent does not suggest that it will work.

the Deadspin staff pitched $10-15 million as a ballpark for someone to pick them up and start from scratch, without profitability built in

Is Ringer really a warning? The YouTube content is what keeps the lights on. You don't want to read Rob Harvilla on Camila Cabello? I loved the Kate Knibbs story last week about Slava P's coke trafficking arrest. There's a good model there for a Deadspin-esque site to get eyeballs. Obviously Ringer doesn't perform like an ESPN site did but it's employing a lot of people.

A warning about the diminished traffic and influence of trying to pack up an established property for another, yes. It's not about the content - though, yeah, I think most Ringer content is bad outside of the NBA... and inside the NBA if Simmons is directly involved - just that process.

People had been going to Deadspin for 15 years, it was the fill-in if they typed D in their browser - you can never recapture that with a new site. Especially after some time has passed.

the ringer makes its money in podcasting. it's not a cautionary tale per se but i think that a writer's role at a place like that is still complicated and perhaps even precarious. the thing is that the ringer's relationship to podcasting is just really hard to replicate... the main reason their podcast network is so successful in the first place is bcuz simmons himself has been a popular podcaster for over a decade, going back to years before grantland even. there's websites/media companies that work, but they're all pretty sui generis. it's hard to just duplicate a model. one thing that made the death of deadspin particularly sad was not just that it was good, but that it killed off one of the sites whose success was not a model that could be copied.

Maybe Deadspin should try that thing everyone loves where someone waves their hands around and reads/summarizes the article to you in a pop-up window

^ did not go to Deadspin in the two months before it died