Wasn't Gawker just celebrity gossip? If they were around today they'd probably just harass trans people or something. All the other outlets from that era like Vice and HuffPo are shitty.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Naw things like Jezebel (feminist site) were part of Gawker and significantly edgier at the time. The outing of Violentacrez, shut down of /r/jailbait and a bunch of other shit was one of Gawker's journalists too (adrian chen). Chen went on to criticise propaganda against Russia too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Chen

Not sure about what Chen is these days. Looks like he got arrested recently protesting about Gaza though which makes him better than half the establishment journos at least.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

I think you're right about her outing violentacrez, but Something Awful got r/jailbait shut down.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

Taking down Gawker was a Peter Thiel project lol we do not want to support it or say it was good actually.