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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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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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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Not enough people, it seems.
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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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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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