[00:16:38] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> Giant Bomb is exploding
[00:16:43] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> Fandom fucked up lmao
[00:22:50] <MirahezeRelay>	 <theoneandonlylegroom> hm?
[00:44:07] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> [1/2] https://mmofallout.com/2025/04/29/bad-press-how-to-find-bombcast-888/ 
[00:44:08] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> [2/2] its a long podcast and I didn't watch it all but basically Giant Bomb staff were apparently told to fix up their language etc because it was creating "brand safety concerns" for Fandom. So in the podcast (which was published on Giant Bomb) they mocked this and some of them were subsequently let go because of it
[00:44:46] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> Fandom paused all podcasts etc whilst they have a "reset" but everyone on there is posting threads saying stuff like "Fuck fandom" and that they are not coming back to the site and cancelling their subscriptions lmao
[00:45:25] <MirahezeRelay>	 <notaracham> Polygon also got sold off/laid off today on mayday of all days to the content mill owners
[00:45:36] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> yeah
[00:45:38] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> valnet of all people
[00:46:02] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> who have also owned opencritic for a while now too so even if you wanted to avoid Fandom/metacritic theres nowhere better to go lmao
[00:48:25] <MirahezeRelay>	 <notaracham> Some folks are calling for private media folks like Sam Reich of dropout or Ben coll-something or other to swoop in and figure out a private model for these folks to salvage what they do well.
[00:48:40] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> MiraBomb when?
[00:48:58] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority, replying to notaracham> from what I see most of the Giant Bomb folks flocked to Patreon
[00:49:22] <MirahezeRelay>	 <notaracham> Wishful thinking IMO on those calls, but I hope a model that can't get vulture capital'd so hard emerges from this
[00:59:42] <MirahezeRelay>	 <pixldev, replying to notaracham> Dropout mentioned?
[01:00:32] <MirahezeRelay>	 <notaracham, replying to originalauthority> Wishing them success, it certainly worked out for some of the previous rounds of media group collapses
[01:00:49] <MirahezeRelay>	 <originalauthority> just checked out dropout, cool website very nice UI
[01:01:58] <MirahezeRelay>	 <notaracham> Yeah, quite the turnaround story/business model, and a pretty decent UX to boot
[01:15:50] <MirahezeRelay>	 <pixldev, replying to originalauthority> You gotta see their content man
[01:16:03] <MirahezeRelay>	 <pixldev> Brennen Lee Mulligan our savior🙏
[01:16:49] <MirahezeRelay>	 <pixldev> Dropout made a price raise announcement and managed to come out looking better after
[20:16:45] <MirahezeRelay>	 <amelialoveheart> Breen Lee Mulligan seems like a cool guy.
[22:45:22] <MirahezeRelay>	 <pixldev> [1/2] Insane bit of lore I heard today from my boss: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
[22:45:22] <MirahezeRelay>	 <pixldev> [2/2] https://wikis.world/@PixDeVl/114440657647828712