SalamendaciousJezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years
PrivateNoobNever heard of it. Is it the good type of feminist media or the awful type (ex: Buzzfeed)?
notthebeesSomewhere in between. It doesn’t deserve to be shut down though.
Kinja blogs as a whole have been going down in quality ever since spanfeller took over. (I go on jalopnik and gizmodo a lot).
For what it’s worth, every article I’ve seen from them was pretty poignant, relevant, and funny.
Imo it's the latter. It didn't start that way, but in the last decade they gradually shifted to being simply inflammatory on purpose because that brings clicks, and on top of that they regularly did dumb shit like complain about sexualization and male gaze one week (often, though not always, legitimately, but mostly it was literally just complaining without any further insight, which I personally dislike) and next week publish an article with photos of top male bulges in some sport that, apart from the gender being swapped, was literally worse than what they complained about with regards to sexualizing women.
Personally I say good riddance, but I'm biased by a deep dislike for people who use identity politics to create divisive clickbait.
RobotToasterYou phrased it a lot better than I could.
makingStuffForFunYup, that trash can go to the dump then. Thanks for the appraisal.
PeachManYou might not care much about Jezebel, but their parent company, G/O Media, also owns Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Deadspin, Jezebel, The Root, The A.V. Club, The Takeout, The Onion, The Inventory, and Quartz.
So if you like any of those (Lemmy fucking loves The Onion, right?) then this news should concern you a bit.
Sir_KevinNope, still don’t care.
wow so brave, thanks for commenting to show how little you care…?
I mean, they’re allowed to comment. You don’t have to only have a positive opinion to be allowed to make a comment
I didn’t say they’re not allowed to comment. It was a shitty and useless comment, and I’m allowed to point that out. Thanks.
Your condescension makes you sound insufferable.
I’m just as entitled to my opinion as you are to yours.
I didn’t find anything wrong with your opinion, and I never said you weren’t entitled to anything. I’m just pointing out the dumb irony of taking the time to comment on something that you supposedly DON’T care about. If you really didn’t care, you would have kept scrolling.
Last I heard I think they had lost or fired 7 Editor in Chiefs across their holdings in the past 8 months or so. From what I’ve heard they are run pretty terribly for the people that work there and G/O just general
The former Kotaku EIC in particular did not have nice things to say about them on The Games Press podcast
dan1101I always saw Jezebel as sort of celebrity tabloid, guess I wasn’t there in the golden days or just didn’t give it a chance.
As much as I like the onion, I have no clue what their business model is. Making funny headlines that nobody ever clicks on doesn’t make money.
The others never seemed that useful.
It’s a bit funny because people on Lemmy seem to viscerally hate all online advertising and everything connected to it, yet here many of them are, lamenting the end of a company caused by not enough ad revenue.
FauxPseudo Are there any alternatives?