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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
  • masterofmetroidmasterofmetroid Have you ever looked at a world and seen it as a kind of challenge?Registered User regular
    Well then

    I know Cracked was far from the most important media outlet in the world, but it's still always terrifying when i see this happen overnight without any warning

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    That's kind of a big surprise, what the heck happened?

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • QuantumTurkQuantumTurk Registered User regular
    Aw, hope they don't pull the videos from their youtube/someone else can rehost them. I quite liked this series
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVOuY7hoqEs

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Holy shit.
    They just launched like 5 new podcasts but they have lost a ton of talent lately too. This is weird

    I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
  • 2 Marcus 2 Ravens2 Marcus 2 Ravens CanadaRegistered User regular
    No word what's up yet. I haven't seen it confirmed that everyone was laid off, but it's looking that way. Bankrupt? They've been more overt about asking for money on YouTube this year.

  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    also, if you haven't just read all the Popsicle Pete comics

    they are magnificient

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    online media in general is in a really fucking dire shape right now

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    No word what's up yet. I haven't seen it confirmed that everyone was laid off, but it's looking that way. Bankrupt? They've been more overt about asking for money on YouTube this year.

    They were touting that absurd premiuim membership lately too

    I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Jeez. That came out of no where. :(

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited December 2017
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  • 2 Marcus 2 Ravens2 Marcus 2 Ravens CanadaRegistered User regular


    Can't confirm the validity of this, but Cracked might still be breathing, just without anybody you give a shit about. Everyone that made the site what it is is now gone.

  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    Shit it seems like the actual content and people I like from cracked are done. That sucks hard.

    I hope they land on their feet.

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    If it don't have DOB what's the point?

  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    But hey at least buzz feed is still alive and kicking...ughh

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    pivot to video

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  • NSDFRandNSDFRand FloridaRegistered User regular


    Can't confirm the validity of this, but Cracked might still be breathing, just without anybody you give a shit about. Everyone that made the site what it is is now gone.

    Damn that sucks. DOB was one of my favorite contributors, especially on the podcast.

  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited December 2017
    http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-mixed-martial-arts-knockouts-that-displayed-rag-doll-physics/

    I have cried laughing at this article on multiple occasions in the eight years since it's posting. A choice excerpt:
    Michael "The Count" Bisbing had managed to build up a full steam of douchebaggery with his pre-fight comments and dick behavior on The Ultimate Fighter reality show. The crowd was definitely not on his side. Luckily, if this hurt Bisbing's feelings, Henderson hit him hard enough in the second round that he got to walk through a tunnel and talk to Jesus personally about it. Dan's right hand dropped him like a cartoon. He hit him so hard that even gravity got scared. Bisbing hung in mid-air for a moment while gravity screamed at inertia, "Did you see that shit!?" Then, after a high five, the two universal forces quit screwing around and yanked Bisbing's limp body into the floor. Henderson wasn't done dominating Bisbing and gravity, though. After the man-shaped sack of bangers and mash landed, Dan flew into the air and came down on Bisbing's head with Fistos, the forbidden punch of legend. Henderson went fully horizontal with both feet in the air like some kind of maniac skydiver. If you were the greatest warrior that ever lived, came across a sleeping enemy and had six hours to plan one ultimate punch, this is the punch you would throw.

    Johnny Chopsocky on
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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    pivot to video
    I think it might be the opposite? The people who were fired were the ones doing the video stuff.

  • 2 Marcus 2 Ravens2 Marcus 2 Ravens CanadaRegistered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    pivot to video
    I think it might be the opposite? The people who were fired were the ones doing the video stuff.

    Looks like basically everyone in video is gone, but a lot of writers are gone too. Even freelancers.

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    pivot to video
    I think it might be the opposite? The people who were fired were the ones doing the video stuff.

    you need to be reading my sentence in a voice dripping with more sarcasm

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  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    There's been a few publications that made that pivot, and it didn't work out,
    which I think is the context for that post

    Re: Video people fired

    I have good and bad memories of cracked.
    I'd say it's alright relative to the internet as a whole.

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Absolutely no evidence for this but my mediate concern is that cracked got to politically concentrated for the guys holding the purse strings.

    That’s just a general fear that I have regarding all left-wing media those though

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    i mean at a certain point someone with money is going to go "hmm there's more people on the left in the country it's probably more money to cater to them"

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  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    Man I'm old enough to remember when Cracked was the poor man's MAD Magazine

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    They were begging for people to sponsor their videos recently. Their mobile site is horrible and filled to the brim with shitty ads. They probably just were not making the money they needed to sustain it all.

    Jack O'Brien leaving didn't help them much u bet either.

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  • NSDFRandNSDFRand FloridaRegistered User regular
    Macro9 wrote: »
    They were begging for people to sponsor their videos recently. Their mobile site is horrible and filled to the brim with shitty ads. They probably just were not making the money they needed to sustain it all.

    Jack O'Brien leaving didn't help them much u bet either.

    That seemed pretty abrupt as well. Around that time I stopped keeping up with the podcast (and podcasts in general for a few months) and I'm not sure if it's still the same level of quality.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    This is one of my most read sites, and I listen to most of their podcasts too. Really sad about this, there was some real talent at Cracked.

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Absolutely no evidence for this but my mediate concern is that cracked got to politically concentrated for the guys holding the purse strings.

    That’s just a general fear that I have regarding all left-wing media those though

    It would make sense. Wong in particular has done a lot of stuff defending Trump voters and last year they fired Adam Tod Brown who is vehemently anti Trump.

    I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
  • MalReynoldsMalReynolds The Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicines Registered User regular
    The PA forums and Cracked are the only sites I have bookmarked on my phone.

    This stings a bit.

    "A new take on the epic fantasy genre... Darkly comic, relatable characters... twisted storyline."
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  • NSDFRandNSDFRand FloridaRegistered User regular
    Absolutely no evidence for this but my mediate concern is that cracked got to politically concentrated for the guys holding the purse strings.

    That’s just a general fear that I have regarding all left-wing media those though

    It would make sense. Wong in particular has done a lot of stuff defending Trump voters and last year they fired Adam Tod Brown who is vehemently anti Trump.

    I think that's less Jason Pargin being pro Trump (I follow him on social media and he certainly doesn't appear to be so), and more Pargin being from a rural conservative area (grew up with John Cheese) and pushing back against some of the narrative about rural Vs urban and the culture war.

  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    As much as I've lvoed cracked over the years, if I think about it, it's not totally surprising? The last year or two I found myself visiting it a lot less just solely because the format was slowly shifting into , I'm gapping on the word, but like, more and more ads, and clickbait type site stuff( extra pages etc type stuff) snuck in slowly til it became overwhelming

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Damn. Cracked was always my goto when I got bored. Just quick articles that required no investment when I had a few minutes to kill

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Absolutely no evidence for this but my mediate concern is that cracked got to politically concentrated for the guys holding the purse strings.

    That’s just a general fear that I have regarding all left-wing media those though

    It would make sense. Wong in particular has done a lot of stuff defending Trump voters and last year they fired Adam Tod Brown who is vehemently anti Trump.

    Wong is decidedly not a Trump supporter. I doubt this has anything to do with politics. It has everything to do with money.

  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    Sounds like they are moving towards more freelance, and less actual employees. I really like reading the site.. hope it can survive

    If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
  • DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    They basically just moved back to the model they were working with a few years back, before they started doing videos.

  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    Dang, I have a friend who moved down there to work for them full time as a writer/editor; I wonder if he's survived.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I really like the videos though

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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