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post 1699534123 03-21-2024, 09:59 PM
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Mgftp's favorite gaming outlet is officially ded

Kotaku EIC has resigned due to upper management requesting writers play games then write guides for them.

The horror of not being able to peddle woke articles about games you've never played was too much for they/them to bear.
Jen Glennon, who took over as editor in chief of Kotaku in October, resigned Thursday. In a resignation letter seen by Aftermath, Glennon says that she made this choice due to the management team's recent decision to deprioritize news in favor of guides.

Glennon is the second editor in chief of Kotaku since Stephen Totilo's departure in 2021, following Patricia Hernandez, who was fired in August 2023. (Aftermath co-founder Riley MacLeod functioned as interim editor in chief prior to Hernandez's hiring.)

"After careful consideration, I have concluded that the current management structure and decision-making processes at G/O Media are not aligned with my values and goals for Kotaku," Glennon wrote in her letter of resignation, which was addressed to G/O Media executives Jim Spanfeller and Lea Goldman.

"I firmly believe that the decision to 'invert' Kotaku's editorial strategy to deprioritize news in favor of guides is fundamentally misguided given the current infrastructure of the site," Glennon wrote. "[This decision is] directly contradicted by months of traffic data, and shows an astonishing disregard for the livelihoods of the remaining writers and editors who work here."

Glennon also announced her resignation on Twitter, writing, "I've resigned from Kotaku and Jim Spanfeller is an herb."

According to a source close to the situation, Kotaku's staff will be expected to create 50 guides a week at the site. Currently, Kotaku's homepage features a prominent "game tips and guides" module at the top of the page, in a space that was previously reserved for major stories and breaking news. Staff members have criticized the homepage redesign on social media, noting that Kotaku's major source of traffic is not guides.

Aftermath reached out to G/O Media for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Since Great Hill Partners' acquisition of the sites, then known as Gizmodo Media, in 2019, the overall portfolio has seen a decline in traffic as well as an exodus of editorial leadership and staff—the co-founders of Aftermath included. Most recently, Spanfeller announced the sale of Deadspin and the layoff of all staff working there. In November, Paste bought former G/O Media site Jezebel, following the site's closure and a full layoff of its staff. In March 2023, former G/O site Lifehacker was sold to Ziff Davis.
https://aftermath.site/kotaku-eic-re...ditorial-edict
post 1699534203 03-21-2024, 10:02 PM
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Kotaku isn't even a legitimate gaming site anymore, they went full blown left wing activism site. It's more politics than anything these days.
post 1699534283 03-21-2024, 10:05 PM
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editorial is not news
post 1699534313 03-21-2024, 10:06 PM
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You managed to make this RIP thread while still providing more sources than mgftp ever does.


















Damn.
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post 1699534353 03-21-2024, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted By Coal
You managed to make this RIP thread while still providing more sources than mgftp ever does.


















Damn.
This is funny because it's true.
post 1699535703 03-21-2024, 10:56 PM
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Good riddance, but Kotaku is dead to many people for good reason, fuk'em all.

All hope is not lost, however, if they're writing guides now, mgfgt can write guides on how to suck and take dick all day and night, he's a pro at that.

Also lol that every one know mgfgt is an unhinged leftist commie cuckold. That twink blows more bubbles out of his ass when he farts than you'll find in an Olympic swimming pool full of soap.
post 1699537163 03-21-2024, 11:56 PM
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Notice how she makes a dismissive remark about "Super Mario 64 coins" in her tweet? That smug, flippant tone disparaging the medium. SM64 is a god damn pillar of the industry, you shut your sloot mouth.
post 1699539863 03-22-2024, 02:18 AM
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Cliffs?
post 1699581963 03-22-2024, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted By mgftp⏩
Cliffs?
you're a cock sucking communist ph@ggot and no one likes you.
post 1699583983 03-22-2024, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted By SirFapsAIot⏩
you're a cock sucking communist ph@ggot and no one likes you.
post 1699591143 03-23-2024, 02:53 AM
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Good. Hope Polygon and all of the other worthless leftie gaming "journalist" sites are next.
post 1699597063 03-23-2024, 07:33 AM
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Favorite and goat sitcom reboot Is fake and most gaming tech miscers are sad


https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/...-are-breaking/

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post 1699606703 03-23-2024, 11:40 AM
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Far more people are well too aware now just how useless and pathetic gaming "journalism" is these days, and glorified clickbait blogspam like kotaku deserve to be put in the dirt when even doing theone thingtheir ostensible purpose even is as a so-called video game site is too much of an ask.

Higher ups are also starting to wake up that a handful of irate, purple haired femcels do not make for a viable consumer base to support a twitter account, let alone a business.
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post 1699628693 03-23-2024, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted By nkiritsis13⏩
Far more people are well too aware now just how useless and pathetic gaming "journalism" is these days, and glorified clickbait blogspam like kotaku deserve to be put in the dirt when even doing theone thingtheir ostensible purpose even is as a so-called video game site is too much of an ask.

Higher ups are also starting to wake up that a handful of irate, purple haired femcels do not make for a viable consumer base to support a twitter account, let alone a business.
Turns out appealing to a small minority at the expense of the vast majority was not a good long term business plan. Who knew!
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