Originally published at: Man who bought Gawker for less money than a hat shutters company, keeps hat | Boing Boing
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There are going to be dissertations written about this whole thing in the future…
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previously shuttered in the wake of a devastating lawsuit brought on by Hulk Hogan for publishing a sex tape he made
A lawsuit bankrolled by thin-skinned fascist billionaire Peter Thiel, who has his own beef with Gawker over a statement of fact the outlet made about him but didn’t want to draw more attention to it.
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I miss Gawker. And I really miss Splinter.
Thank goodness we still have Jezebel, Gizmodo and Wonkette.
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At that price it was practically highway robbery…
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Hey, I’m just glad rich white folks aren’t auctioning off the bicorn of someone like L’Ouverture. 
A tricorn at 33% off?
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Everybody’s cutting corners these days.
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Paintings never show how those hats were worn in the cold and rain, with various flaps, and unfolding bits. Probably because artists hate painting in the cold and rain.
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That looks like something Sister Bertrille might wear.
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Is he storing random objects in his hat? I thought that custom died out in the renaissance!
Sadly, Jezebel is a pale imitation of what it used to be. I say this as a former regular Jezebel commenter. I remember the glory days when it was a cottage industry with witty, informative articles and a lively commentariat. Saturday Night Social used to get in excess of a 1,000 comments by Sunday afternoon, and now they are lucky to get more than 20 or 30, and half of those are trollies. (edited to add; spellcheck is changing the spelling of some words; I did not write “trollies”)
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I’m afraid that you’re quite right. And this same trend is something that we are seeing across so many once-great content-producing sites (or at least sites producing content other than video or podcasts).
I am not aware of any new sites that have sprung up to fill in those holes, either…
Meanwhile, content aggregator sites make bank with hardly any work and a shocking drop in quality.
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When G/O Media shut down the linked commenter blogs, we had refuges set up on different platforms; reddit, discord, blogspot, and one or two others. So there is a groupthink 2.0, observation deck, balk talk, and splinter and a couple more. Not all the commenters made the jump, so unfortunately, the communities are not growing, but they are fairly closely knit.
I think there are some papers that could be written about the longevity, influence and support of online communities of people that are separated by vast geographical distances.
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(I’m now at Wonkette, and it’s a whole different vibe, but had been rooting for nü-Gawker even without a commentariat)
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I pop into Wonkette occasionally, although I’ve never commented, and I do like the informed, but snarky articles and comments.
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RIP iO9. And I think Wonkette got out at just the right time to preserve itself and avoid the curse of Kinja. I still have a Kinja login ported over from… Discourse? Disqus?, but have been greyed and ungreyed so many times it’s not even worth trying anymore.
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Honestly, I went to the “new” Gawker when it launched and I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be satire or not.
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You never see a picture of someone wearing a deer stalker with the ear flaps down, at least none I’ve ever seen. I find mine to be pretty practical. The back bill keeps rain off your neck and the ear flaps keep your ears warm.
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