They tried to raise $500k to buy the Gawker name and failed to reach even $100k. You’re vastly overestimating how much people actually care.

I won’t be sad, because the cream will rise. The handful of quality writers will find better gigs, and the rest will fade away just as they should.

Assuming that anyone hating on GMG must be a conservative is a perfect illustration of why this family of sites keeps dying self-inflicted deaths.

In the book “Masters of Doom”, there’s an anecdote about how Doom co-creator John Romero had a glass statue holding a mallet in the lobby of his office. The joke being that the statue held the instrument of its own demise.

Gawkmodo is that statue, and boy does it love destroying itself over and over.

Yeah, the Root really needs to hire a Nazi.

Yes, only a racist would dislike a site that regularly attacks entire ethnic groups based on how aggrieved the writer of the hour feels. Of course. 

If they hadn’t insisted on posting the Hogan sex tape (even as they beat their chest in outrage over the iCloud leaks), or maybe if they hadn’t outed a gay man against his will in collaboration with a man who was trying to blackmail him, Thiel would have nothing to show for his vendetta other than lawyer bills.

Gawker…

This Hispanic thanks you. Latinx must die.

Talk shit about Trump all you like, on Splinter. Why do Deadspin and Jalopnik need political subblogs, for example?

Gawkmodo has dozens of blogs, few of which stick to their original mission statement, with shrill politics sprinkled on top. It’s the worst kind of brand dilution.

Nintendo and leaving money on the table, name a more iconic duo.

“How do you do, fellow poors?”

Good. Fuck that thug.

Wilson’s a fucking thug. I don’t want him banned for game 4, though. Let Geno deal with him, then ban him.

There’s NEVER enough flan for everyone. It’s like pizza. Whatever amount you have, you could always use more.

I first read that as “150 egg yolks” and thought “I’ve REALLY been doing this wrong”.

Is it ok if I print out your post so I can show it to my know-it-all American friends when they tell me I’m eating sushi wrong for dipping rice-first?

This needs more stars.

do you really think that it sounded like an amazing business idea to build a platform for people to chat with people they already knew

No, it’s just that MoviePass won’t pay for it. Blaming the theater because the sugardaddy app won’t pay for what you want is beyond silly.

And maybe MoviePass will figure this all out and emerge with a compelling service that’s less restricted than ever.