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[Dennis]

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

wow the internet is fucking brutal

 

[Htown]

"Serious trouble" seems about right

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

Damn shame. Scoops has been doin great work. Same for the Press Sneak Fuck.

 

[Laws00]

Are any Gaf posters worth 50 million? Maybe they could do Kotaku a solid?

i'm a Multi-Thousandaire does that count?

 

[Alex Stroud]

Nice, love seeing trash get taken out.

 

[KZXcellent]

What on earth did Klepek do to get so much hate?

I think it's more that he's acknowledged it and people who hate Gawker/Kotaku are jumping on it.

 

[Sulik2]

Actually Giant Bomb was fine with Patrick going to Chicago. If Kotaku goes under I would to see him come back. Patrick and Austin could do some awesome stuff. More likely I can see someone like Polygon trying to get him.

 

[BakkaGames]

If it comes to this, I hope Jason, Patrick, Kirk and the other Kotaku guys do a Patreon together or something.

Gawker is a piece of shit, but Kotaku is still my favorite gaming website. I love them so much.

 

[psynergylover]

"Serious trouble" seems about right

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

damn....you can feel the worry in that tweet

 

[LiK]

What on earth did Klepek do to get so much hate?

he's talented.

 

[_woLf]

I think it's more that he's acknowledged it and people who hate Gawker/Kotaku are jumping on it.

People are directly calling him out for misquoting though. I wonder what they're referencing.

 

[foltzie1]

This will be an interesting appeal. I'm not surprised at a jury decision in favor of Hogan, but it sets a weird precedent for the press.

 

[Basileus777]

Actually Giant Bomb was fine with Patrick going to Chicago. If Kodak goes under I would to see him come back. Patrick and Austin could do some awesome stuff. More likely I can see someone like Polygon trying to get him.

Giant Bomb replaced Patrick and apparently isn't interesting in hiring anytime soon.

 

[moggio]

What's with all the anime avatars and gifs telling him to kill himself?

Gamergate dickheads I presume?

 

[RiccochetJ]

Him and Jason will be fine. Actual journalists in the gaming industry are hard to find and they're top tier. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Kotaku as a whole will be fine imo.

 

[Azerare]

If Kotaku is profitable, it won't shut down.

It'll be sold to help cover that $115 mil.

Womp. Well there the answer is.

It's overall good though. You shouldn't mess with peoples privacy like that for cheap things like views and hits.

 

[StereoVsn]

I hope some of the better sites get picked up by external companies. I actually like quite a few of Kotaku's articles. Their Jalopnik car site is pretty good as well.

 

[DeCreeperHater]

I'm sure 4chan are celebrating by watching old WWF clips. I hope sneaky press fuck Jason Schreier and his colleagues that weren't involved in this mess (for clarification, yes, I know Kotaku wasn't involved. I'm referring to Gawker as a whole) land safely on their feet.

They're not watching old WWF clips right now, but discussing it and celebrating it in a thread in /v/.

 

[Anno]

so many haters in the replies

i thought everyone likes patrick

Nah. Just like Austin he was scorned by plenty of people for the crime of being intelligent and thoughtful about things.

 

[Squire]

Denton has to pay out of his pocket. They can't even do things like impose pay cuts on their employees.

Klepek is probably joking. They're more than fine.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Gamergate dickheads I presume?

It all makes sense now.

 

[Dio]

I might as well say it again - the Gawker editor AJ Daulerio also said, and this is on video in court, that the only way they'd not post a sex tape of a celebrity on their site is if they were a child under four years old.

1:15 -

http://money.cnn.com/video/media/2016/03/10/hulk-hogan-vs-gawker-trial-in-under-two-minutes.cnnmoney

The people at Gawker are clowns and Hogan's lawyer tore them to shreds for this shit. I understand it sucks that people you like work at Gawker, but maybe they would be better suited to places that didn't have management that said shit like this.

 

[jurgen]

I'm guessing Denton and company are going to have to dip into those tax shelters that they've held in the Caymans and Hungary for several years.

If anything this is karma for them paying almost zero in taxes.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

I hope not :/ they seem to be one of the few sites that regularly publish investigative articles and researched rather than reactionary opinion articles.

 

[True Fire]

Kotaku will just be sold off. It will probably be better off without Gawker tbh.

 

[GillianSeed79]

The Klepek curse again?

 

[Foffy]

Denton has to pay out of his pocket. They can't even do things like impose pay cuts on their employees.

Klepek is probably joking. They're more than fine.

Keza seems none too happy, either.

They're probably not fine.

 

[jbug617]

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

what did Patrick do to them?

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

I hope if this goes badly for Kotaku, those guys land on their feet. Jason, Patrick, Patricia, and most of the core staff seem like good people. Hate to see real talent dismantled due to stuff like this.

 

[samn]

I don't get why people hate Gawker this badly, they're hardly a Breitbart or a Mail Online.

 

[georly]

what did Patrick do to them?

I assume gamergaters who just irrationally hate anyone who works for kotaku.

 

[Quonny]

I said this in the other thread, but if Kotaku is profitable, it has 0% chance of getting shut down. Someone will buy it. Now, if that company mucks it up, sure, it'll get shut down then, but I'm pretty sure Kotaku itself will be just fine.

It's not a GameTrailers situation, as that was an unsustainable model on the way out, whereas I'm pretty sure Kotaku is profitable.

 

[Blablurn]

Nah. Just like Austin he was scorned by plenty of people for the crime of being intelligent and thoughtful about things.

oh :/

 

[Laws00]

wow some people are just.....

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Notch to buy Kotaku

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

It's gonna be more like "350 days of Kristin" then.

Karma because gawker wanted to post the same damn picture 500 times I guess

 

[NIN90]

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

what part of your brain has to malfunction to suggest suicide to someone who is about to lose his job

jesus christ i hate the internet

 

[Hard]

wow some people are just.....

The beauty of the GOP :^)

 

[RE_Player]

I'm so happy Gawker lost but I hate that the one aspect I do like of them, Kotaku and its staff, is caught up in this. It's a shame but everyone there is talented and will find new jobs.

 

[magnificenz]

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

I mean... I have no words..the inhumane responses. Good luck to kotaku.

 

[SolidSnakex]

I don't get why people hate Gawker this badly, they're hardly a Breitbart or a Mail Online.

Here's a story about how they ruined a man's life about outing him

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gawker-conde-nast-david-geithner_us_55a90c56e4b0c5f0322d0b2c

And here's how they responded to a judges order ot take down the Hogan tape

 

[Mr-Joker]

FYI, for people wondering what happened

https://twitter.com/Gawker/status/327537977922318337

Gawker was ordered to take down the video by a judge when they first posted it and refused. Surprised they didn't get contempt of court.

If Gawker were told by a Judge to take the video down and they didn't then of course they would end up getting sued.

Sure hope that the clicks were worth not taking down the video.

I might as well say it again - the Gawker editor AJ Daulerio also said, and this is on video in court, that the only way they'd not post a sex tape of a celebrity on their site is if they were a child under four years old.
.

So then by their logic a sex tape of a 5 years old is okay? :|

No wonder they lost if they tried arguing with that logic.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

What was the context for this case? Why was he suing Gawker media?

 

[Lime]

The US lawsuit system is completely ridiculous

Kotaku have so much talent and just fucking got unionized writing and this fucking shit happens? 115 million US dollars? Are you kidding me? To some white dude celebrity wrestler who already has more than he needs?

Darkest timeline indeed

Edit: thanks for the replies, not thinking about gawker but just kotaku. Fuck gawker indeed

 

[LiK]

wow some people are just.....

who the hell is this?

edit: looked her up, huh

 

[A Link to the Past]

If Kotaku goes under, hopefully they'll do like a Patreon for a Kotaku 2.0 or somethin'.

 

[David H Wong]

I mean... I have no words..the inhumane responses. Good luck to kotaku.

You forget what Gamergaters are like until you accidentally stumble across a swarm of them. Really the worst humans on earth.

 

[Jarnet87]

Start the petition to bring Patrick back to Giant Bomb.

 

[Kinsei]

What was the context for this case? Why was he suing Gawker media?

They were the ones that published his sex tape.

 

[Foffy]

The US lawsuit system is completely ridiculous

Kotaku have so much talent and just fucking got unionized writing and this fucking shit happens? 115 million US dollars? Are you kidding me? To some white dude celebrity wrestler who already has more than he needs?

Darkest timeline indeed

Let's ignore the fact they put up a sex tape for hits and traffic, and ignored a judge telling them to take it down.

Don't paint this so one sided.

 

[sycam0re]

Denton said on twitter that they are going to appeal:

https://twitter.com/nicknotned/status/710973280308559873