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RockaFowler

(7,429 posts) Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:03 PM Aug 2016

Gawker.com to Shut Down Next Week

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gawkercom-shut-down-next-week-920593?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR%20Breaking%20News_now_2016-08-18%2009:56:22_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_breakingnews

The end of Gawker.com is near.

The 14-year-old website will shut down next week, according to a post on Gawker.com.

Univision on Tuesday agreed to buy the six other sites that make up Gawker Media for $135 million but the broadcaster did not plan to operate the flagship site.

The other sites are still going to run, though (Jezebel, Deadspin, etc)

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Gawker.com to Shut Down Next Week (Original Post) RockaFowler Aug 2016 OP

Noooooooo!!!!!! Happyhippychick Aug 2016 #1

From the source blogslut Aug 2016 #2

Thanks a lot, Hulk Hogan. nt Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2016 #3

Gawker kind of did that to themselves. Initech Aug 2016 #7

GOOD LAWDIE Skittles Aug 2016 #11

Definitely not me! Initech Aug 2016 #13

Peter Thiel can go fuck himself Hong Kong Cavalier Aug 2016 #4

I was wondering why the Internet felt a little less cancerous this morning. NuclearDem Aug 2016 #5

Good riddance to a bunch of voyeurs, creeps and assholes Sen. Walter Sobchak Aug 2016 #6

This always happens when I find out about something! rickford66 Aug 2016 #8

Hopefully Kotaku and Jalopnik will continue. I look at those two every day. Skeeter Barnes Aug 2016 #9

They bought The Onion too. spooky3 Aug 2016 #10

Good. Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of """""people""""". Shandris Aug 2016 #12

And nothing of value was lost. romanic Aug 2016 #14

Happyhippychick

(8,379 posts)

1. Noooooooo!!!!!!

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:05 PM

Aug 2016

blogslut

(37,997 posts)

2. From the source

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:09 PM

Aug 2016

http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-1785455712

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,166 posts)

3. Thanks a lot, Hulk Hogan. nt

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:10 PM

Aug 2016

Initech

(100,060 posts)

7. Gawker kind of did that to themselves.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 02:00 PM

Aug 2016

They're the ones who published the sex tape without his permission, can't blame the Hulkster for wanting to take them down.

Skittles

(153,142 posts)

11. GOOD LAWDIE

Reply to Initech (Reply #7)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 05:54 PM

Aug 2016

WHO WOULD WANT TO SEE HIM IN A SEX TAPE

Initech

(100,060 posts)

13. Definitely not me!

Reply to Skittles (Reply #11)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 07:56 PM

Aug 2016

Hong Kong Cavalier

(4,572 posts)

4. Peter Thiel can go fuck himself

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:15 PM

Aug 2016

Shit-tastic billionaire with a vendetta (and backing Furious Cheeto for president, too)

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)

5. I was wondering why the Internet felt a little less cancerous this morning.

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:15 PM

Aug 2016

Sen. Walter Sobchak

(8,692 posts)

6. Good riddance to a bunch of voyeurs, creeps and assholes

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:23 PM

Aug 2016

But I'm rather in awe that the rest of it is worth $135 million, or even $35,000.

rickford66

(5,523 posts)

8. This always happens when I find out about something!

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 02:07 PM

Aug 2016

I've closed a lot of restaurants after one visit.

Skeeter Barnes

(994 posts)

9. Hopefully Kotaku and Jalopnik will continue. I look at those two every day.

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 02:07 PM

Aug 2016

spooky3

(34,430 posts)

10. They bought The Onion too.

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 02:24 PM

Aug 2016

Hope it continues.

Shandris

(3,447 posts)

12. Good. Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of """""people""""".

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 06:53 PM

Aug 2016

Nick Denton deserved every little bit he lost, from Gamergate's full court press on his advertising dollars (and hence personal cash) all the way to Hulk Hogan finishing it off in BIG fashion.

Rise so high, yet so far to fall... *Singing Obligatory Megadeth*

romanic

(2,841 posts)

14. And nothing of value was lost.

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Aug 18, 2016, 09:40 PM

Aug 2016

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