Has BoxOfficeMojo been mentioned yet?
Deadspin, now.
Most likely the entire Gizmodo family of sites, if it keeps going the way it’s going.
That's because CV was taken over - twice. It's not been the same since original owner Whisky Media was broken up, but the kicker was when CBS took it over, and merged all the user accounts with GameFAQs and Gamespot counterparts. The result, one day I was just locked out, my username and password didn't work. Because they'd been changed to my GameFAQs ones, which I only found out much later by accident. Why the HELL was I not given notice and a choice of what username to keep? So that was me done with that site.
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Lying in the Gutters, and it wasn't off topic. It was the discussion forum for Rich Johnston's columns before he left to start Bleeding Cool.
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I loved the AV club so much. The community was absolutely batshit insane, but not cruel, and I got to have some of the most insightful and entertaining discussions I've ever experienced online. Then the Kinjapocalypse happened, the community vanished, and the articles basically became "Lookit what this ******* said/did/wore. I'm mad!"
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
retrocrush is officially gone . Have any other sites you liked died?
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I'd certainly support whatever they did, should they go that route. Takes capital, though.
Still, the entire family of sites are in trouble now. The user experience has gone down the shitter. The ads are insane right now, and I doubt that was simply out of greed.
So, if the sites needed to be sold to keep afloat, and the ads had to be ramped up to such obnoxious levels, I don't know that starting a new site on their own is a smart financial reality for freelancers.
I do wonder what else was going on that we don't know about. There has to be more. Journalism is an industry where people fear getting laid off every day, so quitting like this is pretty unusual. It's got to be more than "stick to sports".