Reddit was radical. Delicious was radical. Metafilter was radical. Village Voice was radical only in the view of those who were shocked that the "Prettiest Woma

Reddit was radical. Delicious was radical. Metafilter was radical. Village Voice was radical only in the view of those who were shocked that the "Prettiest Woman In New York is a Porn Star" ( by the time VV wrote about her Stoya was moving to the mainstream acting and directing - VV was six years late) Village Voice niche got decimated not by the internet but by a smartphone. Picking up VV ( or City Paper or Philadelphia Weekly or SF Weekly ) was a ritual to find out what to do around town that week or to have something to read while sitting in a diner or waiting for someone in a park. None of the publications ever had enough good content ( which is why they were weeklies ) as a percentage of the total content but they had a captive audience. That captive audience disappeared with the arrival of iPhone and Android phones. The weekly needed to compete with Hacker News, Craigslist, Porntube, New York Times, Reddit, etc and none of them could.