Their content was pretty bad. This was a long time coming.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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I didn't even know it was still around. I thought all those websites shut down years ago, apparently not though: Kotaku still seems to be around.
I assumed the Hulk Hogan / Peter Thiel lawsuit killed em all, but guess they held on
It killed Gawker, their parent company
They were bought by someone else in 2019, but couldn't recover
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
Several Kotaku writers quit and launched their own operation recently, named Aftermath.
And the Deadspin folks have Defector, while Jalopnik writers have The Autopian. All worthy of your clicks and dollars.
Oooh, I didn't know about The Autopian. TIL
Good fucking riddance. Those asshats published an article wherein several of their staff writers joked to each other about physically abusing their male partners.
People need to remember that not all feminists are good people. There really are some misandrist feminists out there. More than most people would like to admit.
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