Really, the best possible outcome of all this would be if the whole union just up and left to start their own network of sites. Ideally, they’d then manage to get the best of the past writers to join them in the enterprise.

The 1% only like the rest of us when we are compliant and obedient.

I think you might have accidentally answered yourself:

That header bar at the top is how I found SO many interesting articles on the other sites that I never would have seen otherwise. I’ve really missed it. Same as you, a sports or car specialty site would never hook me on its own, but cross posted to Giz, I read SO MANY articles I never would have thought would interest…

I hate the hot takes on Trump’s being booed at the baseball game saying “oh, we shouldn’t be calling for the jailing of our political enemies in a democracy” as if Trump was just an unpopular politician and not a national embarrassment that breaks his oath of office, if not the constitution, on a regular basis and has…

Seize the means of production!

Yup. They’re why we can’t have nice things. I was going to call them vampire squids but that’s really an insult to actual vampire squids which are very cool looking and neither vampires nor squids.

Breaking things apart to sell the pieces of the carcass is a business model in private equity, so perhaps.

GMG was/is the one corner of the internet where I’m NOT afraid to read the comments. It’s been a good 10+ years, guys.

Been trying to sort out motivation here.

(So, we’re already dead and don’t know it, right?

I don’t give a shit about sports but I’d read great articles on Deadspin constantly. I don’t give a shit about cars, but I was frequently exposed to great reads on Jalopnik because the sites are all connected. I’m not black but I’ve read some amazing content on The Root. I can only assume other readers are like me,…

“Let’s not.”

I truly cannot believe how stupid Jimbo and his cronies are. Truly bewildering how stupid you have to be in order to come in and tank a popular series of sites so you can reap the cash from them and then move on.

This all absolutely fucking blows. I don’t have much hope that my favorite little corner of the internet is going to survive all of this intact, but I do hope above all else that things go well for all the editorial staff from the entire family of sites.

let’s not??

I’m about to need an actual barf bag.

The cross-site revolt makes me very happy.

I like, like, 2 basketball teams and no other sports. I read Deadspin DAILY, all year. I don’t want them to stick to sports, and I’m mad, and sad, and I still miss Gawker, and this sucks. 

Thinking of all of you with GMG today. This has been completely wild.