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I think the writing has been on the wall since the Deadspin debacle[1]. G/O media seems to have little appetite for political commentary, so I'm surprised Jezeb
by AlexandrB 3y ago
I think the writing has been on the wall since the Deadspin debacle[1]. G/O media seems to have little appetite for political commentary, so I'm surprised Jezebel lasted this long.
I didn't realize they owned The Onion though. Probably doesn't bode well for that publication either.
[1] https://deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584 https://deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
- pbj1968 3y agoAnd the Deadspin offshoot Defector is bleeding money, too.
- JStanton617 3y agoI don't think that's correct. Their 2022 annual report shows them as profitable. https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-two https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-two Maybe took a major downturn in the past year, but I haven't seen any evidence of that
- x0x0 3y agoSince they didn't take external investment, that's impossible.
- damagednoob 3y agoWhat I can't understand is that The Onion's YouTube channel[1] has 2.5 million subscribers and a billion views. You'd think they be able to do something with that amount of eyeballs. [1]: https://youtube.com/@TheOnion?si=WyE-hvhrR6cRpFFT https://youtube.com/@TheOnion?si=WyE-hvhrR6cRpFFT
- shortrounddev2 3y agoThe onion's most viewed videos are from over a decade ago when they put actual effort into their content. Now their most recent videos get a few thousand views whereas their older content used to get a few million. The quality of their content has really fallen off a cliff and their sarcastic political takes are usually pretty dumb now.
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- mortenjorck 3y agoThe Onion circa 2012 was a trip. It's wild, given how much streaming video has grown in the decade since, just how much they left on the table abandoning such gems as Today Now, ONN News, Onion Talks (their devastating spoof of TED), and more. And then there's OH1, with perhaps the most brilliantly surreal pop-culture satire of this century, Sex House.
- TMWNN 3y ago>Today Now The actress who played one of the two morning-show anchors went back to her original career as a pilot, presumably because it's a more reliable paycheck. I presume that she wouldn't have done that had The Onion continued with its videos, which indeed were amazing a decade ago.
- formerly_proven 3y agoDidn't the onion videos die because of inflated view counts reported by Facebook Videos? IIRC there were some fairly expensive settlements around that.
- TMWNN 3y agoIs that what happened? I wonder if the same thing happened to CollegeHumor: Like The Onion, very popular YouTube videos (as measured by views) a decade ago, then suddenly disappearing (again as measured by views).
- drewcoo 3y agoG/O has a history of hostile relations with a number of its sites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G/O_Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G/O_Media It probably all makes some kind of private equity "sense."