Jezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years
Jezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years
A downturn in advertising led to the "excruciating" decision, its owner said.
Feminist media site Jezebel is suspending publication, as its owner reckons with a downturn in online advertising.
G/O Media chief Jim Spanfeller announced the move in a memo to staff, calling it an "excruciating" decision.
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You might not care much about Jezebel, but their parent company, G/O Media, also owns Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Deadspin, The Root, The A.V. Club, The Takeout, The Onion, The Inventory, and Quartz.
So if you like any of those (Lemmy fucking loves The Onion, right?) then this news should concern you a bit.
Also, RIP Jezebel. Sometimes they were edgy and weird for no reason but they also did some solid reporting over the years.
As much as I like the onion, I have no clue what their business model is. Making funny headlines that nobody ever clicks on doesn't make money.
The others never seemed that useful.
Last I heard I think they had lost or fired 7 Editor in Chiefs across their holdings in the past 8 months or so. From what I’ve heard they are run pretty terribly for the people that work there and G/O just generally suck.
The former Kotaku EIC in particular did not have nice things to say about them on The Games Press podcast
I'm calling it now.
The A.V. Club, Gizmodo, and Kotaku are getting merged in 2024.
I always saw Jezebel as sort of celebrity tabloid, guess I wasn't there in the golden days or just didn't give it a chance.
It's a bit funny because people on Lemmy seem to viscerally hate all online advertising and everything connected to it, yet here many of them are, lamenting the end of a company caused by not enough ad revenue.
Nope, still don't care.
wow so brave, thanks for commenting to show how little you care.......?
I mean, they’re allowed to comment. You don’t have to only have a positive opinion to be allowed to make a comment
I didn't say they're not allowed to comment. It was a shitty and useless comment, and I'm allowed to point that out, as well as pointing out the irony of taking the time to comment that you don't care. Thanks bud.
Your condescension makes you sound insufferable.
It's because these former mods of /r/ whatever have to gatekeep stuff instead of the age old forum behavior of zero moderation and move along and don't feed trolls. They feel entitled to meaninglessly comment about how someone's comment was meaningless.
The condescension was very much intentional, thanks for noticing.
I'm just as entitled to my opinion as you are to yours.
I didn't find anything wrong with your opinion, and I never said you weren't entitled to anything. I'm just pointing out the dumb irony of taking the time to comment on something that you supposedly DON'T care about, in order to tell the world how LITTLE you care. If you really didn't care, you would have kept scrolling.