Some links #3: AT&T sprints ahead while G/O shits the bed
HBO Max
It's here. And honestly, it sounds pretty good. I love the new animated content (Jellystone! Looney Tunes Cartoons! CLOSE ENOUGH!!!) and it feels nice for CN and Adult Swim to have their own dedicated pages. Surprised but happy Ghibli has its own dedicated page. And wow, they really did take South Park from Hulu, damn. The price is... expensive, but it's also the exact same price as HBO Now which gives you far less. So yeah. I guess what I'm trying to say is that this seems really nice? But Disney+ is still gonna kick everyone's ass, isn't it? Also kinda feels weird that Cartoon Network branded shows are now HBO Max originals, like Adventure Time and Infinity Train, plus newcomers Tig N' Seek and The Fungies. Guessing we won't see those in the increasingly irrelevant Cartoon Network now.
Rick and Morty to Remain on Hulu Despite HBO Max Dea
Honestly surprised by this, but I'll take any non-exclusive streaming deal we can get in this climate. LOTS of articles still claiming that Rick and Morty on HBO Max is exclusive, though.
Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting En Masse
Hell of a few months for the young, scrappy G/O Media. Shame that this is how it ended. This current situation started earlier this week when G/O started forcing auto-play ads, as well as just cramming ads in every nook and cranny they could, on all their sites, including Deadspin. These unionized sites then posted a post essentially saying "if you have a problem with these ads like we do, please email our corporate overlords." Then, they deleted that article without telling, which is apparently broke a rule that the Union had. Then, G/O Media told Deadspin to "stick to sports", something they have actively protested before... and unsurprisingly protested again. Yesterday, they made the featured banner on their front page entirely unrelated to sports, featuring articles like a Canadian woman flinging shit at a Tim Hortons employee, an article in August made as a resignation letter by the former Deadspin editor-in-chief, and a list of things people stuck up their rectums in 2018. The articles that day were just talking about dogs they saw or wedding dress codes. The interim editor-in-chief, Barry Petchesky, was fired that day, leading to Deadspin's writers to just stop writing entirely. After three new articles today, they just decided to quit. It's over. If G/O and their dumbasses in charge (was going to link to a blog post made on a personal Kinja account calling CEO Jim Spanfeller a herb, but it got removed) decide to keep Deadspin running, it's never gonna be the same again. They're just gonna suck the fucking soul out of all their Gizmodo/Onion sites until there's nothing left but a shameful content farm full of clickbait fucking garbage. I never expected myself to care so much for sites once owned by Gawker, but I really do care now. Blogging is dying out... shit sucks man. I miss Univision!
jim spanfeller more like
Maybe I should have made my blog on Kinja.
Twitter will ban all political advertising starting in November
Huge subtweet to Facebook. But it's a fucking welcome one. Honestly, imagine how much better the world would be if we didn't have to deal with political ads. I wouldn't have Trump telling me to sign up to a survey on YouTube. Watching Jeopardy! in October wouldn't be miserable. Good stuff. Now give us an edit button.
Trump campaign says Twitter ad block will ‘silence conservatives’
Good
It's here. And honestly, it sounds pretty good. I love the new animated content (Jellystone! Looney Tunes Cartoons! CLOSE ENOUGH!!!) and it feels nice for CN and Adult Swim to have their own dedicated pages. Surprised but happy Ghibli has its own dedicated page. And wow, they really did take South Park from Hulu, damn. The price is... expensive, but it's also the exact same price as HBO Now which gives you far less. So yeah. I guess what I'm trying to say is that this seems really nice? But Disney+ is still gonna kick everyone's ass, isn't it? Also kinda feels weird that Cartoon Network branded shows are now HBO Max originals, like Adventure Time and Infinity Train, plus newcomers Tig N' Seek and The Fungies. Guessing we won't see those in the increasingly irrelevant Cartoon Network now.
Rick and Morty to Remain on Hulu Despite HBO Max Dea
Honestly surprised by this, but I'll take any non-exclusive streaming deal we can get in this climate. LOTS of articles still claiming that Rick and Morty on HBO Max is exclusive, though.
Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting En Masse
Hell of a few months for the young, scrappy G/O Media. Shame that this is how it ended. This current situation started earlier this week when G/O started forcing auto-play ads, as well as just cramming ads in every nook and cranny they could, on all their sites, including Deadspin. These unionized sites then posted a post essentially saying "if you have a problem with these ads like we do, please email our corporate overlords." Then, they deleted that article without telling, which is apparently broke a rule that the Union had. Then, G/O Media told Deadspin to "stick to sports", something they have actively protested before... and unsurprisingly protested again. Yesterday, they made the featured banner on their front page entirely unrelated to sports, featuring articles like a Canadian woman flinging shit at a Tim Hortons employee, an article in August made as a resignation letter by the former Deadspin editor-in-chief, and a list of things people stuck up their rectums in 2018. The articles that day were just talking about dogs they saw or wedding dress codes. The interim editor-in-chief, Barry Petchesky, was fired that day, leading to Deadspin's writers to just stop writing entirely. After three new articles today, they just decided to quit. It's over. If G/O and their dumbasses in charge (was going to link to a blog post made on a personal Kinja account calling CEO Jim Spanfeller a herb, but it got removed) decide to keep Deadspin running, it's never gonna be the same again. They're just gonna suck the fucking soul out of all their Gizmodo/Onion sites until there's nothing left but a shameful content farm full of clickbait fucking garbage. I never expected myself to care so much for sites once owned by Gawker, but I really do care now. Blogging is dying out... shit sucks man. I miss Univision!
jim spanfeller more like
Maybe I should have made my blog on Kinja.
Twitter will ban all political advertising starting in November
Huge subtweet to Facebook. But it's a fucking welcome one. Honestly, imagine how much better the world would be if we didn't have to deal with political ads. I wouldn't have Trump telling me to sign up to a survey on YouTube. Watching Jeopardy! in October wouldn't be miserable. Good stuff. Now give us an edit button.
Trump campaign says Twitter ad block will ‘silence conservatives’
Good
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