We can call it... The Dissolve!  Wait, shit... 

They know that. This is 100% G/O media attempting to break the union.

Nick Denton was a real piece of shit and as someone who was a fan of Old Gawker Media, I never liked the way people looked back on that era purely with rose colored glasses. There was a lot of garbage in with the good.

Meanwhile, The NY Times is buying The Athletic for HALF A BILLION DOLLARS.

So, uh, anyone found a satisfying AV Club replacement? Kinda seems like any remnants of what I liked about this site are about to go away.

So shitty! I’ve been hanging out here a long time, and amidst all the upheaval of the past several years, Dowd has remained one of the reasons to keep coming back. What an underhanded, slimy way to treat - not just a valued and valuable employee - but just a human being generally. Fucking cretins.

People are quitting in droves because their employers are curtailing work-from-home, and G/O Media wants to not only make everyone show up at an office, but show up at an office 2,000 miles away.

The Dissolve 2.0!!!!

i’m guessing they’re trying to force out the older staff to replace them with someone cheaper

So they’ve finally decided to slit the AVClub’s throat and let it bleed out.  

@AA Dowd - if you and a bunch of current/former AVClub writers end up spinning off to your own new website, I would happily follow.

Welp, even if it never reached the heights of the AVC of the Elder Days, it was fun while it lasted. 

What a shitty thing to do, but I expect nothing less given the company.

Welp, there it goes: “The AV Club” finally and completely joins Deadspin in being an entirely zombie property.

can we talk about this instead?

I mean, this is just Simon Kinberg stealing Uma Thurman’s Fox Force Five spiel from Pulp Fiction, right? We’re so reboot-crazy we’re now rebooting fictional failed pilots!

Simon Kinberg has always sucked. He broke in with Mr and Mrs Smith, which was not actually remotely good, but became famous due to the off-screen shenanegins of its leads.

This guy pretended to run for president in order to trick black men into throwing their votes away so that somebody whose father housed black people in death traps could stay president and continue to oppress and disenfranchise black people.  Clearest evidence ever that “cancel culture” does not exist is that people…

Maybe in UK, but here in Colorado they say we’re “skyrocketing”.

He’d rather we think he’s  crazy than stupid?