I have an email chain with spanfeller the night Megan left. I was nice and tried to reason with him, he was nice and said, paraphrasing, they don’t want deadspin to change All that much other than being more sports focused. It has obviously escalated since then.

Do you mean bozos such as the one who can be reached at jim@g-omedia.com? 

Almost as bad an idea as Autoplay videos, or letting the bozos at G/OBros Media delete posts critical of their garbage ideas!

Unlike the bozos at G/OBros Media, who delete posts critical of them because they're too chickenshit to admit their ideas are bad.

Running them into the ground is now precisely the point. No rational owner attempting to actually run these sites in a way reasonably anticipated to result in medium- or long-term profitability would behave this way. The auto play ads are sapping goodwill and certainly driving readers away, or will soon. One of the…

I sent an email, which I’m sure will either never be read or will be straight ignored.

Hey everyone, relevant to your interests:

g-omediafeedback@googlegroups.com

jim@g-omedia.com

I appreciate the commentariat keeping the email address alive. Despite the original post requesting respectful feedback, I fear I may have strayed from that directive. The terms “sackless cowards” and “kindly fuck off” may have been used.

I have no regrets. 

Jesus. I didn’t realize the cowardly dicks running things actually made them take it down.

Hey, let’s talk about how G/O media are such gutless scum that they took down all of the posts across the kinjaverse about how awful the autoplaying videos are and how to contact the ownership about it.

Oh look, I found it. It appears that if one decides to email g-omediafeedback@googlegroups.com regarding the auto-play videos, it will get sent to the people making these stupid decisions.

Anyone have a link to the email accounts linked in the the now-deleted post regarding complaints for the auto-playing videos? Because it would be a shame if that got posted in the comments on every single story from here on out. 

Amusingly, it still shows up in the sidebar. https://deadspin.com/a-note-to-our-readers-1839401652

And despite your corporate overlords telling you to stick to sports, I hope Deadspin never does because

and I can’t emphasize this enough

I come to Deadspin BECAUSE YOU DON’T JUST STICK TO SPORTS

The infuriating thing to me is how this piece is both narrowly focused a single baseball team’s operations and yet also very much describes EVERYTHING about America-circa-2019.

The biggest tragedy in all of this is that they probably won’t be able to find another white heterosexual ivy league finance bro to take Taubman’s place.

The Chris Rock monologue at the end of Blame Game will be replaced with a Jim Gaffigan story about getting his kids ready for church