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From the team behind The Escapist, we're excited to announce our next adventure, Second Wind (twitter.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 85 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let's see if they can outcompete The Escapist's new series: Zero Employees

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

I can't wait for them to pivot to an ASMR channel with such classics as "hvac system comes on in empty office" and "executives celebrate cutting costs with golden parachute openings."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Second wind is their YouTube channel, don't bother trying to find any links to it, because modern journalism is shrouded and recursive, and Google is shit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Man the SEO on that name is terrible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I'm not sure they put much thought into the brand name, hopefully the product will elevate it! And maybe it'll keep acquisition companies from knocking on their door?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Its in the tweet now.

I'm digging on the logo. Looks like a stylized phoenix, which fits the "rebirth" vibe of a name like second wind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Thanks for linking it so I don't need to open up Ex-Twitter.

The channel has 25K subscribers with no videos or anything. I love it.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 9 months ago

You mean the manta ray portrait?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

It wasn't that difficult to find, just click the link in the linked Xitter post.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

24 hours from mass exodus to new startup, must be some kind of record

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Basically the entire old company quit at once, which does make these things easier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

This has to have been in the planning/development stages for a while. What we may not know is whether they were planning on launching now anyway or whether they moved their plans up after the editor was fired.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What happened with the escapist? Can't say I even paid much attention, but I've been a follower of Zero Punctuation and Yahtzee's handful of novels for years.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

they fired someone and it seems that it was in very bad terms because almost everyone /everyone escaped the escapist, they probably saw what was coming and that they provided the actual value to the company.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Looks like Yahtzee left voluntarily, so it seems like zero punctuation will be done with the upcoming episode.