A quick post for your entertainment.
Dexerto
Dexerto is an e-sports site described as the "TMZ" of e-sports. It has a heavy focus on video game personalities and operates at a revenue of OVER $10 million a year. How does a site that generates less content and research than fricking drama make so much money yet still has to layoff workers by the dozens?!?! Anyone who truly believes that they can turn gaming journ*lism into a full-time job deserves to be fired, but site owners also deserve noogies for being so darn greedy that they are collapsing their own industry. I miss the old internet days where you could follow specific writers you enjoyed. Now it's all churned out articles to meet quotas, resulting in gaming "journ*lism" being nothing more than reposting content from Reddit. Anyways, here's some of the results of the recent layoffs. As you read, remember that these people were paid a living wage to write about video games then without warning were left without a salary.
Gamurs
I've already written about the layoffs at Gamurs, but the truth is that the company is undergoing waves of layoffs and nobody there is safe.
Gamurs owns big gaming sites like Dot Eports, Destructoid, We Got This Covered, The Mary Sue, Prima Games, and Escapist. It has a bad reputation for treating its workers like expendable goods, and a number of articles have been written about it.
https://aftermath.site/the-gamurs-group-games-journ*lism-escapist-dot-esports
https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/gamurs-group-layoffs-without-warning/
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/gamurs-group-employees-reportedly-hit-with-more-layoffs
In September, several employees at Gamurs woke up to an email explaining that they must frick off because of Google's changed algorithm.
Here's a roundup of some of the layoff posts over the last year. It's funny because some people get hired, fired, hired again, then fired again. It's like @Patsy making alt accounts to stay on the site after getting banned. Also, they get fired by having access to their accounts snatched without warning.
I've reached my upload limit so I'll post more in the comments below.
Conclusion
It's over for video game journ*lism. The articles you read were written by AI or a fresh-out-of-college intern working as a freelance writer earning $5 for 1000 words. You can choose to either mourn the loss of an industry, or smile as the world burns. Sorry for the lack of Hollys but like I'm struggling to contend with a file upload limit. Lemme know if you want to see more of these.
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More layoffs. The ones I'm posting
are senior industry veterans who have been writing 
longer than some of you have been born and they're being told to frick off because one guy in Sydney, Australia 
is losing 
money. Funny 
but sad.
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lmao at buying a house when this is your income stream. yeah I just won $200 on a scratchcard so I decided to get a mortgage on the assumption I'd be able to do that every day
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Written 2000 article? Editted fi-fi-fifty thousand articles?! Wow. I didn't even think that many articles about video games existed. Who reads this stuff?
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Not enough people, it seems.
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Why aren't more people asking this? They're fricking computer games that go beep boop. Just push the buttons and enjoy the beep boops until it's time to get up and do something more important with your day. Why the frick do they need a whole fricking industry dedicated to reporting news about this shit
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that means something to somebody
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It's not sad in the fricking slightest. It's the fricking free market at work. The fricking people have decided they don't want to read some "journos" slop... no amount of "but I've been doing this for 25 years with no promotions, motherlover!
" is fricking going to change that you provide zero value to the fricking market.
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Those numbers are actually insane. Literally an ai would probably do a better job if this guy can "adequately" edit tens of thousands of articles. No wonder every article on google sucks when they're just pumping out every seo optimized trash article they can think of.
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her butt has gotten pretty big.
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I know
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Days without having to look at a fat wh*te w*man 0...
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It's a good morning today
and lol "tech recruits I made your life easier your welcome" like yeah bro I'm sure tech recruiters are clamoring over each other to hire some strag specialized in checks notes pokemon and rpgs.
Industry died in 2013, this is just a corpse that looks alive because there are worms wriggling within it.
lol worlds over because a 38 year old no longer can't write articles on pokemon bullshit "for a living."
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There are way too many of them, and their content is largely redundant as a result of that, as well as the fact that the younger audience (presumably your target if you're writing about esports) gets their news through tiktok and youtube now anyway. Only completely obsessed dorks are going to read a game review or an article about Evo or whatever these days.
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imagine if dramatards got paid
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They do it for free
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Dexerto deals in the fricking most vapid form of journ*lism; printing what the fricking current big streamer said, out of context. Turns out they don't need a fricking thousand employees to do this, they need a fricking dozen sexy Indian dudes and a fricking ChatGPT subscription.
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Yo sneedman what games do you like to play, do you have favoured genres?
And would you ever have become a gaymer journ*list if it had been financially viable?
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Used to be an open world
normie for the longest, but this year I got into city-building games 
like Caesar 
3. Yes, I would 
absolutely be a filthy gaming 
journo.
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never was interested in vidya but thought I would like sports journ*lism after getting hooked on Dr. Z's column in early 00s Sports Illustrated (which used to be a great magazine, RIP). But holy shit what a bullet dodged, as I imagine most terminally wordsposting-addicted people on this site are similar in that we didn't end up trying to write for a living.
One of the dudes you posted, he said he churned out 3,500 articles during his time there. 3,500. If I'm generous and I give him 5 years of employment, that's 1825 days, meaning he was posting an average of 1.91 articles a day. And this includes weekends, holidays, sick + personal leave. Realistically he's probably at 3/day of work. That's fricking nuts. You literally can't churn out good articles that quickly. Grantland (another RIP) I'd get maybe 1/2 drops a week from the writers I followed and then maybe on the month you'd get a really nice longform.
I wonder what the no kidding cost would be of actually paying a journ*lism website's staff a living wage, and then how much you would have to charge in monthlys to recoup that. When I ran the numbers for my film company idea they never agreed, just to start it was ~250k/yr of takehome to cover a skeleton staff at 15/hr. This was 2019 and obviously things have only gotten worse since then.
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Have you owned the libs yet?
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yeah
unfortunately what I just typed out were dashed dreams of my lib brain
it's ok longposty. like Will Smith, I know humans can make the better chair but I also know what world we live in
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I will get you inside Holly, bro.
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was her butt always the plump?
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chatGPT generate 15 articles about black, gay and women representation in lego games then another 15 about how g*mers are sexist for not reading them
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Deserved it for being a curry tbh
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Wow, Holly is such a fat fricking cow
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Need to get to 100%
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God I hope they fired writers at The Mary Sue as well.
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Snapshots:
https://aftermath.site/the-gamurs-group-games-journ*lism-escapist-dot-esports:
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https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/gamurs-group-layoffs-without-warning/:
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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/gamurs-group-employees-reportedly-hit-with-more-layoffs:
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