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Vice had one of my favorite pieces of internet content ever, maybe this is a business lesson about "stick to the knitting" or something... "stick to the pointy

Vice had one of my favorite pieces of internet content ever, maybe this is a business lesson about "stick to the knitting" or something... "stick to the pointy Mexican boots" http://web.archive.org/web/20230128213354/https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbzk9d/mexican-pointy-boots http://web.archive.org/web/20230128213354/https://www.vice.c... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veQkt4tS0Tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veQkt4tS0Tc

emptysongglass 3y ago
Eddie Huang did a street food series with them that was also fantastic called Huang's World. I'm pretty sure it used to be called something else. What I liked about Vice was it all felt very unpolished. Huang, nonplussed, hangs with famous pornstar Jada Stevens while she's doing a shoot on the Bang Bus. That behind the scenes vibe dominated Vice video for a long time extending to their war coverage.
- unixhero 3y ago
  That was prime VICE
- nocsi 3y ago
  Funny because before Disney, akwafina was just hanging around with Eddie Huang on vice. Now she’s in all sorts of Disney stuff. I guess getting in bed w/ disney means you’ll die and disney will pick the morsels it likes
epolanski 3y ago
Not only that, but Vice produced some of the highest quality, and only "mildly western-biased" reporting we have seen from world events. See the 100+ dispatches from Ukraine 2014 mostly by Kamil Ostrovsky.[1] But with time the amount of content by Vice literally exploded in magnitudes, and so did the quality of content and journalism. Don't get me wrong, Vice still produced many other interesting contents, but eventually it has been so watered down by so many types of content that finding relevant or quality journalism became very difficult. I wish they stuck with their initial spirit of focusing on quality reporting and content from around the world (NK, Ukraine, Africa etc), they would've built a terrific journalistic niche for themselves. A niche that I can't find anyone to be able to fill. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsLlK52ss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsLlK52ss
- lynx23 3y ago
  highest quality, sure... You probably don't mean things like this, right https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgbx9q/how-to-make-breakfast-with-your-vagina https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgbx9q/how-to-make-breakfast... Appears catering only to millenials wasn't the best idea.
  - epolanski 3y ago
    I may have expressed myself poorly, what I meant is that their interesting and quality reporting quickly became rarer among the huge amount of articles like the one you posted. I guess that they tried to go for the click baity route of odd content to get more views, a route that is full of competition and has a hard time retaining recurrent readers. I would've preferred they stuck with building a (definitely more expensive) niche of journalism in the spirit they were initially founded.
  - Toutouxc 3y ago
    What does making breakfast with someone's vagina have to do with a specific generation, the youngest members of which were already working or in college when that particular article came out, and the oldest members of which were raising their own adolescents? Why does everything weird and alternative still automatically get labeled as "millenial" stuff?
    - ajmurmann 3y ago
      The comments here really make you lose faith in our ability to communicate as a society. So many comments about Vice having become "too left"/"not moderate" where I'm uncertain with the examples where the line is between the writer expecting something super right as moderate or if I myself am way left. Otherwise ok comments arbitrary grouping and sigmatizing people. I think we've almost reached a complete breakdown in our ability to communicate with each other, at least in written form.
  - clnq 3y ago
    I am a millennial. Please don't cater this to me in any way, shape or form.

emptysongglass 3y ago

Eddie Huang did a street food series with them that was also fantastic called Huang's World. I'm pretty sure it used to be called something else. What I liked about Vice was it all felt very unpolished. Huang, nonplussed, hangs with famous pornstar Jada Stevens while she's doing a shoot on the Bang Bus. That behind the scenes vibe dominated Vice video for a long time extending to their war coverage.

unixhero 3y ago
That was prime VICE
nocsi 3y ago
Funny because before Disney, akwafina was just hanging around with Eddie Huang on vice. Now she’s in all sorts of Disney stuff. I guess getting in bed w/ disney means you’ll die and disney will pick the morsels it likes

epolanski 3y ago

Not only that, but Vice produced some of the highest quality, and only "mildly western-biased" reporting we have seen from world events. See the 100+ dispatches from Ukraine 2014 mostly by Kamil Ostrovsky.[1] But with time the amount of content by Vice literally exploded in magnitudes, and so did the quality of content and journalism. Don't get me wrong, Vice still produced many other interesting contents, but eventually it has been so watered down by so many types of content that finding relevant or quality journalism became very difficult. I wish they stuck with their initial spirit of focusing on quality reporting and content from around the world (NK, Ukraine, Africa etc), they would've built a terrific journalistic niche for themselves. A niche that I can't find anyone to be able to fill. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsLlK52ss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsLlK52ss

lynx23 3y ago
highest quality, sure... You probably don't mean things like this, right https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgbx9q/how-to-make-breakfast-with-your-vagina https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgbx9q/how-to-make-breakfast... Appears catering only to millenials wasn't the best idea.
- epolanski 3y ago
  I may have expressed myself poorly, what I meant is that their interesting and quality reporting quickly became rarer among the huge amount of articles like the one you posted. I guess that they tried to go for the click baity route of odd content to get more views, a route that is full of competition and has a hard time retaining recurrent readers. I would've preferred they stuck with building a (definitely more expensive) niche of journalism in the spirit they were initially founded.
- Toutouxc 3y ago
  What does making breakfast with someone's vagina have to do with a specific generation, the youngest members of which were already working or in college when that particular article came out, and the oldest members of which were raising their own adolescents? Why does everything weird and alternative still automatically get labeled as "millenial" stuff?
  - ajmurmann 3y ago
    The comments here really make you lose faith in our ability to communicate as a society. So many comments about Vice having become "too left"/"not moderate" where I'm uncertain with the examples where the line is between the writer expecting something super right as moderate or if I myself am way left. Otherwise ok comments arbitrary grouping and sigmatizing people. I think we've almost reached a complete breakdown in our ability to communicate with each other, at least in written form.
- clnq 3y ago
  I am a millennial. Please don't cater this to me in any way, shape or form.