Deadspin editor quits, blasts G/O management

CD Boogie · Nov 4, 2019

typefitter said: ↑

It's very strange to me how highly Deadspinners regarded themselves. How many Deadspin writers were exceptional? Like, how much "important" work did they do? A handful of stories? And most of those they fucked up in some way. The vast majority of posts were disposable; they did a ton of aggregation and theft; and a lot of things they wrote, especially early on, were amoral at best, sinister at worst. For a place that became "woke," it had a long and sordid history of wronging people, including people who didn't deserve it, like that poor girl on the toilet stall floor. I went there plenty, mostly as a diversion, and because sometimes they could be funny and a good source for media gossip, but I never saw it as anything more than a little entertainment. These people thought they were part of some cause, like they were crusaders against everything bad in the universe. It was a fucking blog, man. They really did lose sight of what they were, and I think it cost them everything in the end. They're like every other person in history who flew for a couple of seconds and then decided they were birds.
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"Dumb humps shoulda bought some wax first" -- Icarus

typefitter · Nov 4, 2019

CD Boogie said: ↑

"Dumb humps shoulda bought some wax first" -- Icarus
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I thought to make the comparison, but then I decided that they never really flew high enough to feel the warmth of the sun.

justgladtobehere · Nov 4, 2019

3_Octave_Fart said: ↑

@Double Down -
There was the Derek Thompson piece in the Atlantic this month spotlighting the great extent millennial lifestyle is dependent on venture capital.

Netflix is about $20 billion underwater, as well. Still operating at a loss (like Twitter).
I hate to make this a generational thing but none of these models are sustainable and millennials should better understand the broken world they've inherited.
I give them a lot of credit in certain regards - they've never known the country at peace, either literally or ideologically.
But in other ways they haven't a clue and the teeth-gnashing of last week reflected that.
Like what did they expect to happen when this Spanfeller guy took reins of the publication. There was no way for it to end well.
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Generational stereotyping is silly, but when it's used to explain economic bubbles it is useless

3_Octave_Fart · Nov 4, 2019

Typefitter-
Deadspin's Stacks section was naked theft.
And I don't know why this was never legally pursued.

Small Town Guy · Nov 4, 2019

Octave,
Alex Belth operated The Stacks and there was always a note with those that they ran with the permission of the author; basically like a book excerpt would be. He's an awesome curator and collector of famous pieces throughout journalism's history; ran Esquire's archive as well. Deadspin definitely had an issue with over aggregation but the Stacks weren't part of that problem.

Azrael · Nov 4, 2019

Small Town Guy said: ↑

Octave,
Alex Belth operated The Stacks and there was always a note with those that they ran with the permission of the author; basically like a book excerpt would be. He's an awesome curator and collector of famous pieces throughout journalism's history; ran Esquire's archive as well. Deadspin definitely had an issue with over aggregation but the Stacks weren't part of that problem.
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Seconded.

Azrael · Nov 4, 2019

typefitter said: ↑

It's very strange to me how highly Deadspinners regarded themselves. How many Deadspin writers were exceptional? Like, how much "important" work did they do? A handful of stories? And most of those they fucked up in some way. The vast majority of posts were disposable; they did a ton of aggregation and theft; and a lot of things they wrote, especially early on, were amoral at best, sinister at worst. For a place that became "woke," it had a long and sordid history of wronging people, including people who didn't deserve it, like that poor girl on the toilet stall floor. I went there plenty, mostly as a diversion, and because sometimes they could be funny and a good source for media gossip, but I never saw it as anything more than a little entertainment. These people thought they were part of some cause, like they were crusaders against everything bad in the universe. It was a fucking blog, man. They really did lose sight of what they were, and I think it cost them everything in the end. They're like every other person in history who flew for a couple of seconds and then decided they were birds.
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Agreed.

Songbird · Nov 4, 2019

LOL is it irony that today would have been the ULTIMATE day for Deadspinners to rage against the machine -- and within the edict -- and write about Suzuki//Nats/Trump/MAGA hat?

Inky_Wretch · Nov 5, 2019

The Big Ragu · Nov 5, 2019

It is the right moment for me to leave?

CD Boogie · Nov 5, 2019

I've been visiting Deadspin to see when the next byline appears that is not "Deadspin staff."

Songbird · Nov 5, 2019

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