Vice Media Files For Bankruptcy

Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy

 

Pivoting to Chapter 11.

 

Vice always felt so "all over the place" to me. Like, excellent oral histories or long-form journalism, next to columns from people about scoring coke. (And sometimes, a mixture of both!) Even now, here are the three latest stories they've published:

• The Right Has Raised $2 Million For the Guy Who Choked a Homeless Man To Death
• Drunk People Tell Us the Pettiest Thing They've Ever Done
• In the Philippines, Chinese-Filipino Couples Face a Great Wall

 

The only question now is, which right-wing dipshit billionaire will buy it to use as his personal megaphone?

 

Considering that VICE was co-founded by Proud Boys founder and noted racist asshole Gavin MacInnes, the odds are pretty good that this comes to pass.

 

Wrote a few stories for them so went and saved them now just in case. I liked writing for them, but waiting 11 months to get a check for 750 bucks (which was two stories worth as well)...not quite as fun.

 

Vice’s New Owners Prepare to Slash What’s Left of Its Work Force

 

The new Vice business model.

 

Vice as a TV channel seemed a little bit ahead of itself. It came from an alt/skater magazine. It used a lot of free money, but never had a good position in cable tv. The consumers who made the magazine were not all that many and were never going to support the tv brand as they got older.

 

Vice Media to lay off hundreds of workers and stop publishing on its site