We might be seeing the end of these Kotaku and the games journalism clique.
Two things of note have happened. First, members of the clique have started having a falling out not over corruption or relationships, but over NFTs.
This part, unfortunately, me being lazy, pretty much Ben wiped all his tweets, so it looks like this now.
Fortunately, someone archived his twitter, so old rambling NFT tweets still
here.
Not only that, but Kotaku is following DeadSpin's lead and went on strike. Nobody really noticed.
Their site is described as having "gone dark", but so far that seems to mean "not uploading clickbait for a few minutes."
(added a space before "today" because kiwifarms isn't letting me post archive links for some reason)
http://archive. today/ZQ6tY
So what are the demands of these journos writing for what is ostensibly an English speaking Japanese game news site? Forbes provides a list.
- More inclusive healthcare for trans and gender-expansive employees.
- Salary increases in the wake of the pandemic and during rapid inflation.
- Better family leave which is currently too limited.
- Allowing for work-from-home flexibility, and getting management to stop demanding remote workers move to NYC.
- Not enough consistent work on diversity efforts.
We'll see how this goes, but my guess is they're all going to get fired. Either directly, or getting them to quit by moving the office around.
Not sure if you link the right one, it's just Kotaku front page for me. Usually I use ".md" or ".ph" instead of ".today" for archive link.
But I'll have archives from GMG union strike themselves.
Their
twitter page and
the main website. For now, since they're on strike, they aren't getting paid and they have to rely on donation.
The demands from their website.
Demanding for working remote is mostly because of Covid 19.
Beside not getting paid, they're probably on their way kissing their job goodbye,
Tom McKay.
Jim Spanfeller is CEO of G/O Media which is the holding company runs bunch of these crappy journalism.
Some support from Jason Schreier,
1 and
2.
Totally not their fault for whatever happened at Deadspin.
Funny how they considering their strike is starting
great.
Unrelated to the strike above, not sure if appropriate but
Schreier seems to want to be in this matter,
Ukraine vice prime minister demands big game distributors to cut ties with Russia and Belarus.
We're totally not the bad guys here and all Russian are evil, even women and children. Their right for gaming as hobby should be taken away.
