Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
How was Vice not profitable with that much output?
Vice did a lot of very good, and generally in-moderate-depth reporting over the years. Hope an overabundance of people scrape that shit while we still have an opportunity. Once its hosted somewhere safe, you could probably even dump access to it somewhere like … the fediverse.
That’s sad. They did some really good things over the years.
back it up
I’d rather start saving my trash, thanks
In other words, the in depth reporting and niche shows aren’t making enough money, so we’re going to dump all that shit and jump on the reality TV bandwagon.
they’ll just fire everyone and licence their stuff for AI training
I remember when they were a bunch of dicks. But, yeah, there was some really good journalism that got done - somehow - amongst all that.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240111063111/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-shane-smith.html
How nice. A site founded by a racist who once stuck a dildo up his ass live on streaming video as a “joke” is going to shove a dildo up the ass of all of its employees.