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Kotaku editor-in-chief Patricia Hernandez has reportedly been fired following a personnel disagreement.

That's according to journalist Shannon Liao, who spoke to Hernandez after she announced via social media that yesterday was her last day at the site.

According to Liao's Updater newsletter, Hernandez now plans to focus on freelance writing. There were no further details on the disagreement that led to Hernandez's dismissal.

"When leadership is, say, getting frustrated at you for writing about Tears of the Kingdom after it release, I do think there's a limit to how much things can flourish," she told Updater.

GamesIndustry.biz has reached out to G/O Media for comment, but has yet to receive a response at the time of publication.

Hernandez originally worked for Kotaku as a freelancer before eventually joining the team and rising to deputy editor. After a time at Polygon as culture editor, she returned to Kotaku in 2021 as editor-in-chief.

Last year, a union representing staff from Kotaku, Gizmodo and other G/O Media went on strike over better salaries, parental leave, and healthcare, among other things. The union reached an agreement with G/O Media after four days.

G/O Media reportedly fires Kotaku editor-in-chief Patricia Hernandez

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[Ribi]

Pfft I could write for that dog water site. In fact they could purchase this post for 10 social credits and publish it.

 

[kanjobazooie]

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[intbal]

"Freelance Writing" = "May I take your order, sir?"

 

[Punished Miku]

About 10 years late. All your readers tried to tell you she was the worst person you'd ever hired from the second she started. Then you promoted her to Editor in Chief lol.

I'll never forget when she got corrected by Stephen Tortilla in the comments after trying to tell the commenters that a game dev was likely guilty of sexual harassment simply because its statistically likely, not because they had any evidence at all. He shut her down and seemed genuinely surprised that she thought this way. This was like 2012 or so.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Imagine the smells.

 

[mansoor1980]

Imagine the smells.

 

[Wildebeest]

That website is still going? Weird.

 

[Elder Legend]

Good riddance, another SJW degenrate writer who just wanted to ruin gaming is going down the drain. Bye.

P.S. Fuck Kotaku and everything they stand for.

 

[Punished Miku]

Good riddance, another SJW degenrate writer who just wanted to ruin gaming is going down the drain. Bye.

P.S. Fuck Kotaku and everything they stand for.

Not "another." This is closer to patient zero. The whole birth of this movement in gaming that has wrecked the last decade started on Kotaku and Gamasutra around 2011-2012.

 

[Raven77]

 

[Sleepwalker]

Already found her replacement

 

[Interfectum]

 

[Varteras]

Wasn't it the one who wrote an article that speculated that men beating women in video games might somehow be rape? Didn't it also demand that the creator of Cards Against Humanity use the allegations against him as a platform to bring awareness to sexual assault instead of using that time to defend himself? Wasn't it also known to get combative with viewers in the comments section?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

"Personnel disagreement" - wonder how much of a meltdown that was.

 

[Scotty W]

Wasn't it the one who wrote an article that speculated that men beating women in video games might somehow be rape?

Yes, but… it was a hoax article, desunafortunatamente.

Edit: ie, it was a fake markup of an article which was attributed to her.

 

[Dr_Ifto]

Anyways.....
Should have been fired years ago.

 

[Elder Legend]

Is this supposed to intimidate me? Or is this a photo submission for a circus show? Or both?

 

[mansoor1980]

Is this supposed to intimidate me? Or is this a photo submission for a circus show? Or both?

fear her

 

[RyRy93]

Is this supposed to intimidate me? Or is this a photo submission for a circus show? Or both?

Photo submission for the role of Abby in S2

 

[Tomofdahook17]

Already found her replacement

It's funny how much I'd rather have an A.I. give me updates on games that woke dumbass.

 

[Zheph]

The website was already dogshit but she managed to make it 10 times worst, kudos

 

[Firestartah]

The only mainstream gaming site that deserves to still be around is IGN, because of things like not bending the knee to degenerates regarding Hogwarts Legacy and other such situations. Besides that, the small sites which are usually non agenda pushing are the only ones that deserve to survive. Fuck Kotaku and Polygon the most.

 

[Puscifer]

"Personnel disagreement" - wonder how much of a meltdown that was.

Honestly they probably told them no more clickbait and to write about games like it's the 90s to mid 2000s again and you know she lost her shit and I'm kinda here for it TBH.

Polygon and Kotaku were both pretty cool for a couple years then the cracks started showing. At this point unless you're a YouTuber making content for the actual hell of it and out of passion I find it hard to really care about a written article anymore since they've tainted it so much.

 

[Puscifer]

The only mainstream gaming site that deserves to still be around is IGN, because of things like not bending the knee to degenerates regarding Hogwarts Legacy and other such situations. Besides that, the small sites which are usually non agenda pushing are the only ones that deserve to survive. Fuck Kotaku and Polygon the most.

Gamespot had a few moments with me over how often they started handing out 10s over the years but that review you could tell they were towing the line and I hated it, like they had to find reasons to justify the 6.

 

[recursive]

Imagine the smells.

Pure smegma.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Already found her replacement

All this virtue-signaling bullshit and not a single mention of simply reporting facts and the truth within the gaming domain. As if that's not supposed to be what media publications are about anymore.


Honestly, fuck this mess the radical left has made of these types of institutions.

 

[yazenov]

Shit site. Couldnt care less for her or Kotaku.

 

[AJUMP23]

Imagine the smells.

What is wrong with you two?

 

[DeepEnigma]

What is wrong with you two?

Where do I start...

 

[AJUMP23]

Where do I start...

The beginning.

 

[DeepEnigma]

The beginning.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

 

[GloveSlap]

fear her

IT'S PAT alright.

 

[mansoor1980]

What is wrong with you two?

 

[AJUMP23]

I do not think this will improve the sites content.

 

[balls of snow]

Yep, being a cnut will do that to you.

 

[Thabass]

Took way too long.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Imagine the smells.

 

[peish]

That's so empowering!

 

[DeepEnigma]

I do not think this will improve the sites content.

 

[Unknown?]

It's funny how much I'd rather have an A.I. give me updates on games that woke dumbass.

But A.I. is programmed to be very left leaning, it is far from anything neutral.

 

[JimmyRustler]

I'm a bit confused about Kotaku… Reading the comment here I thought this is awoke site par exellance. But then I played CoD Vanguard and stumbled across this article…

Call Of Duty: Vanguard's Campaign Is An Insult To World War II

A misguided attempt to rewrite history for the better demeans those involved

kotaku.com

????

 

[anthraticus]

Pfft I could write for that dog water site. In fact they could purchase this post for 10 social credits and publish it.

Dog water ?? That's different...lol.

I'd go with dogshit tho

 

[jhjfss]

 

[YCoCg]

Her/They writing for Kotaku was the start of the downfall, her/their articles were always soo combative and clickbaity and they always just came across with a chip on their shoulder. Her/them taking over as EIC was truly was the point when Kotaku just fell off into irredeemable territory. There's also reports that behind the scenes she/they were abusive to the staff and was a general shit to work with so maybe it has finally bit her/they in the ass.

 

[Bartski]

 

[Gonzito]

Fuck Kotaku and all these SJW pretending to like this medium just so they can bring their shitty politics to videogames

 

[Harlock]

Even for gaming journalist standards she did not have the weight to be an editor-in-chief.

 

[Fake]

Is that time in our lives that we need to learn to code