Is Kotaku in danger of shutting down?

When you go to work for bad people, you have to be prepared for the consequences.

The people that run Gawker are bad, and they got their due today.

All the people that work for them, rightly or wrongly, will now pay for that with their jobs.

They knew what they were getting into. Gawker gleefully put it all out there.
 
"Brother, where are we with the Sakaguchi interview? We have to run wild with it before IGN scoops us."

Awesome.


Edit: From the other thread.
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I love Wikipedia.

LOLOL

Hogan should buy Gawker and turn it into a WWE/video games news site.
 
I was someone who took a while to warm to Patrick at first, but a lot of the hate he received, even before GG became a thing, was coming from a sort of proto-GG. Those guys were around way before they invented a label for themselves.

The hate actually goes back to his days on the show sessler was on before the youtube, his socio-political leanings weren't known nor cared about. Honesty, back then all he did was make weird faces and stare into the camera awkwardly.

From memory a lot of people thought he was secretly 14 or something and resented envied his existence in gaming related fields.
 
Some pretty awful people responding in glee that Kotaku staff could be let go. The comments to Patrick's account are awful too.

All I got to say is that those wishing bad things on other people will only serve to have it given right back to them. Be careful what you sow.
 
Some pretty awful people responding in glee that Kotaku staff could be let go. The comments to Patrick's account are awful too.

All I got to say is that those wishing bad things on other people will only serve to have it guven right back to them. Be careful what you sow.

that's pretty hypocritical, unless you've NEVER been happy to see someone lose their job.

anyway, i'm sure they'd get new jobs pretty quickly at some other site.
 
Why is Gawker expected to go out of business? This is a rough hit, but if Hogan wants his money it's in his best interest not to bleed them to the point of bankruptcy. Their Wikipedia says they're estimated to net around 30 million in profit every year, so it's not like they can't pay up eventually.
 
that's pretty hypocritical, unless you've NEVER been happy to see someone lose their job.

anyway, i'm sure they'd get new jobs pretty quickly at some other site.

You're right it is. I would love to see Trump lose his job. Gawker is horrible, click-bait shit; Kotaku and Deadspin get caught in the mix unfortunately and I like those sites.

But I am not the only hypocritical one, the world is full of them, especially GAF.
 
Why is Gawker expected to go out of business? This is a rough hit, but if Hogan wants his money it's in his best interest not to bleed them to the point of bankruptcy. Their Wikipedia says they're estimated to net around 30 million in profit every year, so it's not like they can't pay up eventually.


If I had to deal with the stuff Hogan had to deal with I would want my enemies to go bankrupt, money be damned.
 
I'll be sending the folks at Kotaku good thoughts. Hopefully there's places for everyone to land if this is as bad as it looks right now.
 
As an aspiring journalist myself, I really enjoy Kotaku's investigative work (even if I grimace at all the blog-styled posts in between each long-form piece). Folks like Schreier and Klepek are a dying breed in the industry, one that does actual reporting. Hope the crew lands on their feet if Gawker goes down.
 
No one worth while to keep in the gaming industry.

I don't understand why everyone is not celebrating this wonderful news.
Because people are likely going to lose their jobs.

Most people need a paycheck to live life. Celebrating the loss of someone's income is a pretty shitty thing to do.
 
Because people are likely going to lose their jobs.

Most people need a paycheck to live life. Celebrating the loss of someone's income is a pretty shitty thing to do.

Well if the act of celebrating the loss of people's job is shitty then that must make him a pretty...............person.

I am a shitty person for different reasons. I hope the guys can land on their feet.
 
Maybe Klepek can go back to Giant Bomb, and the rest of them can do the world a favor and stop writing about anything.
 
So hypothetically speaking, lets say that Rick Snyder loses his job tomorrow. How much compassion are you going to have for him?

This is a terrible example given people were giving you shit for talking about Kotaku, who didn't do any of the terrible things some of the Gawker employees did.

In this scenario, it'd be like cheering for random government employees, the mailroom guy, etc also being fired even if they had no role in Flint's problems.
 
So hypothetically speaking, lets say that Rick Snyder loses his job tomorrow. How much compassion are you going to have for him?

What an absolute shit comparison

First of all, I have to imagine Rick Snyder has some kind of state funded pension regardless of how unceremonious his tenure as governor of Michigan will end.

Second, Rick Snyder basically brought most of the problems on himself, whereas the writers for the websites and blogs under Gawker did not.

Like I don't even get what you are trying to say.
 
I'm not sure if random writers working for Kotaku are comparable to Rick Snyder...

This is a terrible example given people were giving you shit for talking about Kotaku, who didn't do any of the terrible things some of the Gawker employees did.

In this scenario, it'd be like cheering for random government employees, the mailroom guy, etc also being fired even if they had no role in Flint's problems.

What an absolute shit comparison

First of all, I have to imagine Rick Snyder has some kind of state funded pension regardless of how unceremonious his tenure as governor of Michigan will end.

Second, Rick Snyder basically brought most of the problems on himself, whereas the writers for the websites and blogs under Gawker did not.

Like I don't even get what you are trying to say.

I'm noticing a distinct lack of compassion from you guys, I mean, Rick Snyder could lose his job.
And we should have some basic human compassion and NEVER celebrate when someone loses their job.
 
Given their history of having really great articles, respectively, I expect that they will land on their feet. The only person who I suspect will have trouble finding work is Patricia Hernandez.

She's probably half the reason I avoid Kotaku. Her click-bait feminism is just torture to simply drive-by.

Then again that's probably also most of the other half of why I generally don't often visit Kotak...most of their articles are click-bait.

Jason's articles on Japan are often waxing stereotypes up and down, and he actually lives here which is the ironic thing, Richard likes to trash highly anticipated titles coming down the pipeline without a western date to both simultaneously kill hype and draw clicks...I could go on.

In general I don't find Kotaku to be a very useful journalistic pursuit in most cases I've read anything there. So while I, of course, am sympathetic for the possible incoming job search that awaits them, I'm not really obligated to withhold my very real criticism of both Kotaku and their parent company.

I'm definitely not the only person that feels this way.
 
When you go to work for bad people, you have to be prepared for the consequences.

The people that run Gawker are bad, and they got their due today.

All the people that work for them, rightly or wrongly, will now pay for that with their jobs.

They knew what they were getting into. Gawker gleefully put it all out there.

This is my general outlook. I dont' feel bad that Gawker lost, they deserved to lose and I feel not at all bad they lose the case.

I feel bad that people are losing jobs all the same though and I hope they aren't too bad off in the wake but fuck Gawker man.
 
Well, if Kotaku goes down thanks to Hogan I'll have another reason to resent everything he represents.

I don't follow Kotaku nor do I know much about the situation that they are in. But this sentence is surreal.

Yeah, the situation still sucks because we are seeing another major gaming site crumble and there are jobs at stake. But Hulk Hogan had something to do with this?
 
GB fans hate anyone that comes off "booky" to them. Austin's gotten the same amount of shit and worse, in threads on here even.

Austin does not get worse shit than Patrick did.

Patrick STILL gets shit. And he's been gone for over a year. Patrick had people harassing his family after his dad's death. Austin's gotten nowhere near that level of vile hatred.
 
Not even remotely. The content on there not written by Klepek is a joke. For fuck's sake, the first two articles on the front page are about animal videos and comic books.

That's Giant Bomb's market/audience. It may not be for you and me, but it works for them. Why do you think most folks didn't like Patrick on the site? Because he wasn't what that audience wanted.
 
I don't follow Kotaku nor do I know much about the situation that they are in. But this sentence is surreal.

Gawker site had a sex tape of Hulk Hogan having sex with a friend's wife, Gawker tried to ruin his life (though Gawker has tried to ruin plenty of people's lives for any reason). Hulk Hogan is also a terrible racist.

No one comes out really clean in all this. Kotaku and other subsites are victims in the crossfire of this whole ordeal because Gawker is awful.
 
I'm not up to speed on the actual things that happened, but awarding large damages on the sole basis of 'missed income' can't be something to cheer at. Especially not if the amount is many times larger than the defendant's capability. I mean, you can still agree with the conviction and that he's in his right to ask compensation, but you can disagree whether an amount large enough to bankrupt an organisation is always a good thing.
 
That's Giant Bomb's market/audience. It may not be for you and me, but it works for them. Why do you think most folks didn't like Patrick on the site? Because he wasn't what that audience wanted.

I... wasn't talking about Giant Bomb?
 
For Christ's sake. Kotaku isn't going anywhere.

If Gawker folds, they'll get sold. They have a value on the market, a big following and they do good work. All that value is wasted if they just close it down and sell the office supplies.
 
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