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Dr. Emily Friedman
@ecfriedman.com

Today Gail found out (via a vile misreading of her work) about how Valnet buys up media sites with sterling reputations, guts them of the people who made them shine, & turns them into hollow zombies vomiting clickbait. In case you too haven’t heard why cool kids say “RIP Polygon” (& so many more)

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social

This just gets more and more depressing. I’m sorry you went through that, Arrow.

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Marrow S. Organ
@arrowsmorgan.bsky.social

funny you mention polygon, because that's my basis of comparison for doing freelance at a site that *doesn't* suck donkey balls! got paid $250 there and the editor i worked with (...whose name i'm unfortunately blanking on) was a joy to interact with ...and then valnet just fucking ate them too

Dan Arndt
@danarndtwrites.bsky.social

My three pieces at Polygon were the best freelance support and pay I ever got and I just wasn't in the right headspace to capitalize like I should have. Charlie Hall was a beast

Dr. Emily Friedman
@ecfriedman.com

To give you a sense: when I started originally taking commissioned work at Polygon I was offered triple that or more. But yes, the true value to me was being carefully edited by smart & informed people (who were almost all forced out, in part I suspect because they were also the union organizers)

Dr. Emily Friedman
@ecfriedman.com

More for the morning:

James “Vamp” Fleet@horrorfilms101.bsky.social

Though you may not support the sites on account of how they’re all terrible now, important to know Screenrant, Collider, CBR, Polygon, and other companies all deteriorated because they were bought out by Valnet, a truly heinous company started by shitbags.