TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs

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• ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Valnet is a scourge on hobbyist media

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• network_switch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That is one of the websites where I never click on a link. I associate it with click/ragebait

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  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    TheGamer came out of nowhere too. Back when I used faceboook almost a decade ago, I used to follow a gaming meme page. They post typical gaming shitposts of that era.

    Then one day every shitpost they post is branded with TheGamer logo, the page renamed to TheGamer. I don’t remember the original page name but it gave me disingenious vibe from TheGamer lol.

    Every once in a while they’d post buzzfeed-type of articles from their website. I eventually unfollowed the page.

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    • network_switch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They’ve been around so long but I don’t associate it with any major investigative article or any writer that made their name writing for them. It’s the most faceless notable gaming website and it’s notability to me seems entirely based around SEO and spamming social media with their blogspam articles

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  • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have to admit that I’m not really familiar with that website. Kotaku on the other hand is a site whose links I never click, unless archived.

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    • network_switch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That website has so much ragebait. Once I noticed I stopped. Like 15-18 years ago I would read Kotaku but at some point it became click bait and weirdly gooner bait for a while so I stopped with that site 15-18 years ago. Like the site started good but then became the worst kind of geekdom pandering. Like Perez Hilton for fictional characters

      It happens to every gaming site. Some worse than others. Gamespot post-Kane and Lynch and IGN at some point became a shameless industry advertising site. Polygon started real good and quickly devolved into a terrible ratio of clickbait to occasional good article. At this point the only games media I care for are official communications and gameplay videos from randoms on YouTube or twitch where the only narration I care to hear is about bugs and performance. Gameplay can show itself in video. I can judge writing myself

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• nupo@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oh no…

  Anyway.

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think people losing their livelihood is a good thing!

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    • nupo@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That is not at all what I meant.

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• Uniquitous@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is this a “we’re just gonna let AI do it” kind of thing? Because I think there’s going to be a market for 100% human non-AI content opening up. I think some people would be happy to pay a premium for it, even if it’s just Patreon-level dollar a month stuff.

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