Wasn't Gawker just celebrity gossip? If they were around today they'd probably just harass trans people or something. All the other outlets from that era like Vice and HuffPo are shitty.
Naw things like Jezebel (feminist site) were part of Gawker and significantly edgier at the time. The outing of Violentacrez, shut down of /r/jailbait and a bunch of other shit was one of Gawker's journalists too (adrian chen). Chen went on to criticise propaganda against Russia too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Chen
Not sure about what Chen is these days. Looks like he got arrested recently protesting about Gaza though which makes him better than half the establishment journos at least.
Wasn't Gawker just celebrity gossip? If they were around today they'd probably just harass trans people or something. All the other outlets from that era like Vice and HuffPo are shitty.
Naw things like Jezebel (feminist site) were part of Gawker and significantly edgier at the time. The outing of Violentacrez, shut down of /r/jailbait and a bunch of other shit was one of Gawker's journalists too (adrian chen). Chen went on to criticise propaganda against Russia too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Chen
Not sure about what Chen is these days. Looks like he got arrested recently protesting about Gaza though which makes him better than half the establishment journos at least.
I think you're right about her outing violentacrez, but Something Awful got r/jailbait shut down.
Taking down Gawker was a Peter Thiel project lol we do not want to support it or say it was good actually.