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Re: Vice website is shutting down

#11

They ran out of dangerous places to do designer drugs. In all honesty, Vice was a cool outlet for out-there stories for teens and adults alike. Shame it’s shutting down but then again I never supported it.

My thoughts as well.

It was pretty strong the first few years and rapidly declined in quality for the last 5 or so.

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post #4

Well Vice.com destroyed themselves after the founder left and was taken over. Ever since, they ran themselves into the ground and raised so much money all for what? Only for their website to be shut down after being bankrupt. All faster than their own deranged Twitter / X collapse predictions. Nothing of value was lost.

>Nothing of value was lost.

Place your bets on what will die next. HuffPo? Vox? Salon (which I know had a near-death experience a few years ago; I doubt its financial health is any better now)?

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post #12
post #4

Well Vice.com destroyed themselves after the founder left and was taken over. Ever since, they ran themselves into the ground and raised so much money all for what? Only for their website to be shut down after being bankrupt. All faster than their own deranged Twitter / X collapse predictions. Nothing of value was lost.

>Nothing of value was lost. Place your bets on what will die next. HuffPo? Vox? Salon (which I know had a near-death experience a few years ago; I doubt its financial health is any better now)?

HuffPo is so clickbaity and ad filled I cannot imagine it going anywhere.

Re: Vice website is shutting down

#17
The post is written by a guy named Ernie that writes a newsletter called Tedium, which I highly recommend.

Today’s newsletter about BuzzFeed, which came out earlier this afternoon, alluded to big news coming out of Vice soon. Didn’t know it was gonna be this big, but in any case he called it.

Re: Vice website is shutting down

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Nothing of value was lost. Place your bets on what will die next. HuffPo? Vox? Salon (which I know had a near-death experience a few years ago; I doubt its financial health is any better now)?

HuffPo is so clickbaity and ad filled I cannot imagine it going anywhere.

Salon is also awful - it’ll be nice when they’re done
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