Man o man, have you hit the nail on the head. I think the problems here are many. The new writers don’t really seem to know much about geek culture so much as how to write headlines to spark drama and internet rage for clicks. The others, and definitely Bricken, seems to think they are not just writing an opinion…

Yup totally agree my man. They have upped the amount of hate filled, bully type articles so much.

Agreed. This article is just a finger in the eye, the equivalent of a “fuck the haters” mic drop addressed to ... a bunch of random email haters? Am I projecting for feeling some sort of way about this?

I’m a long-time lurker on io9. I prefer radio silence most of the time, but I felt compelled to ask: why? Why give…

Real Talk: I find that io9 has become a much more bitter site over the past year. Maybe its the lack of open channel, maybe its the lack of recaps, maybe its the shift in who works there, maybe its the Gizmodo partnership, but this site has become a lot more bitter.