Writers told no more politics, just game guides.
Most likely this is to clear out the writers and prep it for sale like Deadspin.
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7 writers is left according to youtubers.
They done it to themselves so, no pity here.
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Good. LOL.
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They can try to blame gamers all they want, but attacking your fan base has always failed spectacularly for years across the media industries.
When was the last time gamers took Kotaku seriously?
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Kotaku was fine but the Gamergate crowd got noisy about them, it’s absurd.
Anyway, regardless of anyone’s leaning, they are being asked to churn something like 50 guides out a week? That is going to burn people out. Can’t we, as humans, all agree it’s not cool to treat writers like this?
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Especially when you attack gamers that has evidence that the one side attacked them first, has evidence and still they go after them anyways.
If they did their job, they would not be in this predicament. Actions always has consequences.
They did their job as dictated by the people on top who run the company. Sorry if you didn’t like that.
And to be clear I don’t love Kotaku either. I pretty much nothing them. They’re a clickbait site in a sea of clickbait sites. In GamerGate there was a wave of hate because they had progressive articles and said maybe the people in the movement weren’t great people. I guess that hate has continued to this day?
(Disclaimer: I am not saying that the people in charge were progressive themselves. Like I said, clickbait site.)
Actually no they did not. That is why the cheif editor was forced to resign.
Their job was to provide reviews, news and guides about games. They haven’t done that in years. At least not properly. And had been warned by the GO to keep to their lane.
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From what I understand she quit because she didn’t want to write guides instead of news.
I went and read a couple of the articles they did on the harry potter game last year. Think it was the best selling game and won lots of awards. But the articles weren’t really about that or the game. More like a campus activist rag.
More and more it looks like their purpose evolved to be the place you went to get your boss canceled. They became an enforcer for the “make them fear what will happen” comment if you were having coffee with the marketing department. So narrative laundering. Tweet this, and we’ll report on it and presto, it’s now the narrative.
This worked while twitter silenced dissent. But now that twitter is more open to both sides of a story it’s not effective in that role and they’ve lost majority of their potential audience along the way.
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They where not producing news, they where producing propaganda and pushing narratives of an agenda. That is not news.
And if she did not like writing guides, then yes, she was not doing her job as guides is apart of their site.
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They’re owned by Gawker. Gawker loves pushing out articles that will annoy people. It sounds like it worked.
Again, they’re just clickbait. The higher-ups don’t believe in social progressivism just in getting people clicking and arguing.
I guess what I’m saying is this…
Did Kotaku write legitimate reviews? Sometimes!
Did they write legitimate articles about the gaming industry? Yes! But then over time no!
Did they write clickbait nonsense? Yes!
Is that what the reader-base wanted? No!
Is that what Gawker wanted? Yes!
So they were doing their job. It wasn’t the job you wanted them to do. It also doesn’t seem to be the job THEY want to do since they’re hemorrhaging talent.
When I say Kotaku is “fine” I mean I don’t think they are more or less deserving of hate than their sister sites under Gawker. There is a concentrated animosity towards Kotaku, to the extent that people will antagonize anyone associated with them, despite all outlets being fairly obnoxious. It’s absurd.
Not for YEARS
Not for YEARS
All news media makes click bait titles.
Correct
Apparantly not with what they just pulled, they gotten too much negative attention because they choose the side of an harrasser which harmed their click worthiness slow they started enforcing the guide rule to get more clicks.
No they where not.
Not the job gawker wanted either. They just closed down another site they owned for DOING THE EXACT SAME THING kotaku is doing.
Even the owners are not happy with them, what are you talking about?!?
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Honestly, I haven’t heard anything about Gawker feeling any way about Kotaku but like I said I “nothing” the site. I don’t keep up with the latest Kotaku lore.
Regardless, my original point stands which is that we should feel sorry for the writers who remain that are expected to just churn out 50 guides a week. They won’t be able to do that without basically stealing guides from elsewhere. It sucks for them all around.
I think they’re owned by G/O media and Gawker doesn’t exists anymore. Gawker got sued into oblivion and filled for chapter 11 in 2016.
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These companies need to stop eating each other.
G/O are the people causing mass walk outs at various sites and protests yeah? That explains a few of the people I liked at Kotaku leaving over the last few years.
Yeah how dare gamers call out a corporation (Btw, who pushed LatinX despite the fact no actual latin/spanish/etc person wants this, Corporate bigotry at it’s finest) bullying some Latin guy just making a steam curator listing off the games they worked on (which btw, the same company also has a list of games they worked off of which the guy uses).
And also how dare gamers called out both the corporation’s employees and Senior Editor’s blatant Racism.
/s
NOBODY asked them to churn out 50 guides. They simply told them to just stick with gaming, and guides are a good start.
When the day Kotaku fires all of it’s staff and replaces them with actually competent people that knows what their doing, and knows how to actually respect their audience, then we can talk.
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Nah.
I think its possible for some of the writers to be at fault AND G/O Media to be cruddy.
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The writers don’t get a pass. They were all more than happy to write the filth they were writing, because they were all political activists that couldn’t get a real journalism job for a real world news organization to spew their drivel like they wanted to, so they resorted to doing it on a gaming site. They consistently targeted their customers and audience with their nonsense, now they’re suffering the consequences. No sympathy for political activists acting out in spaces they don’t belong and are completely unwanted.
To be frank, the political stuff isn’t even why the site is a dumpster fire. It’s because they consistently lied and spread misinformation. There were even a few times people were doxxed or lost their jobs because of the stuff Kotaku published.
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