I built this website. From scratch. Including the servers.
Useful feedback is nice, the question is if this is useful to the company, or just noise. I'll also note that the articles talking about this massive online protest are showing tweets with only a handful of retweets, not hundreds.
There has always been people that will complain about an ad or a product, we used to call them the "little old ladies from Hastings" here, though they may not have been old, ladies, or even from Hastings.
I come from the most agnostic country in the world, where the protests are usually done by militant vegans or politically active youth, not "conservative christians" - but also where the protests can get violent with freeing animals or firebombing places, which is quite the step away from just signing a petition. There's been a lot of fashion protests here, centring on boycotting H&M and the likes for producing clothes in countries where garment workers work for very little money in dangerous conditions for too many hours. Not the design on the shirt.
So they're allowed to protest the shirt, and we're allowed to roll our eyes at them. Everybody is happy.
You mean the Hyundai Wow: Santa Fe commercial where everything is on a seven second delay.
"This was just how the media industry worked, Denton said, and if Gawker writers did not realize that, it was only because he had gone out of his way to insulate them from advertiser pressure.
"There are dirty deals being done all over the place," he said. "Your attitude, your naïveté when it comes to that and then outrage when you discover that actually that’s how the world works, it’s sort of natural and it’s sort of a function of where we are as a company."
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/07/8572584/gawker-tax-getting-too-high-denton-tells-his-staff
At this point, the trainwreck is so spectacular, it feels like it's a Hollywood screenplay (and I bet it brings eyeballs).
Gawker's features editor, Leah Finnegan, live tweeted her commentary on a meeting between the staff and management. Examples: "Complete horseshit" , " 'garble garble garble' -nick" and the final "this has been gawker all-hands meeting livetweets. please DM me for resume."
https://archive.is/hIjEV
^The above twitter feed should be her resumé. Who wants to hire someone who sarcastically livetweets commentary on an all hands on deck company meeting?
It's also interesting how differently the editors & writers perceive the brand so differently from the founder & board.
AdAge: http://adage.com/article/media/top-gawker-editors-resign-denton-defends-pulling-article/299560/
"Mr. Denton tried to put a bow on the situation, arguing that the site's writers will have to get used to publishing not only truths but truths that are interesting and worthwhile. "
I wonder what part of Hulk Hogans sextape was "interesting and worthwhile"?
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