BASED! Gawker Shutting Down Next Week

[RisingPhoenix]

http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end...edium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gawker_twitter

After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal campaign against the company.

Nick Denton, the company’s outgoing CEO, informed current staffers of the site’s fate on Thursday afternoon, just hours before a bankruptcy court in Manhattan will decide whether to approve Univision’s bid for Gawker Media’s other assets. Staffers will soon be assigned to other editorial roles, either at one of the other six sites or elsewhere within Univision. Near-term plans for Gawker.com’s coverage, as well as the site’s archives, have not yet been finalized.

 

[QI 541]

GAMERGATE TOOK DOWN GAWKER!

 

[Big Nasty]

https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/51/2d/04/512d04b7308fcd16115c7c45230b86aa.jpg

 

[ASoulMan]

Rest In Pickles Gawker

 

[Feline Darkmage]

SEMPER FIS FOR THIS ENTIRE THREAD.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

Sam "Bring Back Bullying" Biddle is taking the news well.

 

[MrTroll]

A shocking and uncalled for display of disrespect and hostility for a woman of color. Sam Biddle should be ashamed of himself.

 

[H3LLH4MM3R666]

And he deleted the tweet. A real class-act that guy

EDIT: Archived for posterity: http://archive.is/7kKME

 

[Anchuent Christory]

This entire thing has been hysterical from stat to finish.

 

[Hom Tanks]

Watch as a new Gawker shitpost pops up on Doomworld and Bloodshedder post hells it because he hates Hulk Hogan for being in a Terry WAD.

 

[c-no]

GAMERGATE TOOK DOWN GAWKER!

GamerGate took Gawker down with the power of Hulkamania.

Sam "Bring Back Bullying" Biddle is taking the news well.

Very classy way for BIddle to respond. That response can also go well with that Twitter avatar of his.

 

[Broseph Stalin]

OOH YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHH BROTHER! WE DID IT!!!

 

[King_Scrotus]

Been waiting to hear this for a good while. Nice to see that one more group that's keeping critical thinking out of the internet has died out. Now we just wait for the collapse of the other SJW cabals.

 

[BatNapalm]

GamerGate took Gawker down with the power of Hulkamania.


Very classy way for BIddle to respond. That response can also go well with that Twitter avatar of his.

Always just overflowing with wit, the fat-faced idiot.

Also, RIPD Gawker. I'll miss IO9 the most but I suppose I can always just go to tumblr if I wanted to hear guilty white people whine about how unfair it is that every superhero isn't a black muslim tranny.

 

[Quijibo69]

Is this true or just a dream?

 

[CatParty]

http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end...edium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gawker_twitter

lol taking this forum seriously

 

[The Grimace]

Will this kill off Kotaku too or nah?

 

[Oddjob OTP]

Will this kill off Kotaku too or nah?

Nah.

 

[StarvingAutist]

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[TheUltimatePickle]

I always kind of liked gawker. Yeah, they were pretentious and SJWish at times, but they truly didn't give a fuck who they pissed off and they did break some important stories.

Plus, they were an independent news site in a world where the news is increasingly controlled by just a few companies, we already lost Vice and Nat Geo to NewsCorp this past year, it was sad to see gawker go down too.

Love them or hate them really was bullshit the way everything went down with the whole Peter Thiel thing.

I think we can all agree that Sam Biddle is an irritating little fuck though.

God he annoys the shit out of me.