Posted on 12/05/2017 7:03:54 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Edgy comedy website, Cracked, has silently let go “a lot” of its staff after various writers and some senior staff were let go from the site, which has been confirmed by various writers let go and the executive editor, David Wong, confirmed the news.
Across Twitter various individuals caught wind of former Cracked writers who have been laid off in the process of Cracked trimming the financial fat...one of those individuals let go is former managing editor, John Cheese. So Cracked had no qualms about getting rid of its upper management.
This was further corroborated by executive editor, David Wong...
Cracked was one of the larger sites out there that took aim at #GamerGate early on, when they published a series of articles targeting the consumer revolt against corruption and unethical practices in the media industry.
(Excerpt) Read more at oneangrygamer.net ...
Their Managing Editor; John Cheese.
Or, did they mean John Cleese?
No. John Cheese. Whether that is a pseudonym/tribute to the iconic Monty Python creator or his real name is unknown to me
John Cheese. (read the article):
Spoofs and satire work because of antithesis. When reality becomes cracked, who needs CRACKED anymore?
I remember when cracked magazine came out to compete with MAD. It never was quite up to the competition.
...Cracked, has silently let go “a lot” of its staff after various writers and some senior staff were let go from the site, which has been confirmed by various writers let go and the executive editor, David Wong, confirmed the news.
Variously confirmed by the confirmation of various confirmers.
Try as I might, I can’t get a handle on which sides are which, and who the #GamerGate label applies to. Just seems a brawl between misogynistic jerks vs self-righteous meddling SJWs, flailing about enough to draw decent bystanders in to become indistinguishable amid the fray.
One can be anti-feminist without being misogynistic despite accusations to the contrary...
Vaguely. I do remember when kids said "you're cracked" to mean "you're nuts."
I also remember the expression from which the modern expression "that sucks" descended. That was popular about ten years after "you're cracked," at least where I grew up.
Cracked was hilarious and one of the best early YouTube channels, but as you say, in the last couple of year or two they went full SJW and became unwatchable.
Cracked backed off a bit, but I guess they didn't see the results they wanted so they started SJWing again. Not a good business plan. John Cheese was fair and funny; David Wong has a serious agenda problem. John Cheese was laid off and David Wong is still running things.
mostly anti-SJW comments at the original article. that’s interesting because that’s consistent with the relatively conservative bent of several gamer sites i’ve run across upon occasion, so it seems that many gamers, whom i’m assuming are mostly relatively young, haven’t been totally brain-washed ...
Same here. MAD was the gold standard of sarcasm and satire. Cracked never even reached bronze.
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