Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.
Vice did a lot of very good, and generally in-moderate-depth reporting over the years. Hope an overabundance of people scrape that shit while we still have an opportunity. Once its hosted somewhere safe, you could probably even dump access to it somewhere like … the fediverse.
But Dixon wrote, rather cryptically, that remaining employees will put “more emphasis on our social channels as we accelerate our discussion with partners to take our content to where it will be viewed most broadly.”
In other words, the in depth reporting and niche shows aren’t making enough money, so we’re going to dump all that shit and jump on the reality TV bandwagon.
they’ll just fire everyone and licence their stuff for AI training
How nice. A site founded by a racist who once stuck a dildo up his ass live on streaming video as a “joke” is going to shove a dildo up the ass of all of its employees.
I remember when they were a bunch of dicks. But, yeah, there was some really good journalism that got done - somehow - amongst all that.
That’s sad. They did some really good things over the years.
back it up
I’d rather start saving my trash, thanks
How was Vice not profitable with that much output?
Wasnt vice just shitty articles with even worse clickbait? At least thats what I aaaociate with it. I am surprised people are so sad its gone
Exactly. Happy to see it go.
