Vice Media, once valued at $5.7B, is shutting down Vice.com and laying off ‘several hundred’ staff members

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[–]Jiminy 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Woke, broke

[–]bife_de_lomo 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Womp Womp.

Even at its peak it was full of narcissistic clueless rich kids almost beyond parody.

Nathan Barley was a documentary.

[–]asterias 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They can always start a new career as coders.

[–]Jiminy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

AI is taking those jobs too. Maybe they can be pastoral farmers.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can't get hands and swastikas right, but it'll nail the distinctions between =, ==, and ===. Hmmm...

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, but how many tranny porn apps does the world really need?

[–]neolib 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Motherboard was okay when Joseph Cox and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai were there.

[–]Thinger 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hahahahahaha! (My sides) Hahahahahaha!

[–]HiddenFox 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How does that sound effect go on Price is Right? The one where they lose the car? Whoop Whoop Whoop-Whoop, Wooooo

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This one?

[–]xoenix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I thought Soros just infused Vice with $5B last year?

[–]Jiminy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They're shutting down vice.com, and will just post on social media like Facebook, Twitter. That kind of makes sense if you look into dead internet theory. And laying people off to have AI write the news helps soros save money

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why host your own website when you can post on social networks?

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Their brand is dead. No one wants to read a thing from them anymore.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, they did insist on eating broken glass.

[–]LordoftheFlies 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There was a time when Vice actually had a bit of reputation for being a legit source of news. Then the brainrot set in, hard, and they went from presenting thought-provoking and meaningful content to touting whatever would be most effective at pissing off their parents...

[–]ShoahKahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That must be 5.7 billion Vietnamese Dong.