/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>19135095
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Any 30 yo boomers remember when Vice was good? donkey fuckers and north korea videos and debt collectors?

>>19135095
More like Vice continues to use Covid as excuse for failing business. This virus has no effect on Internet clickbait sites.

>>19135095
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOMYsOGei08

>>19135095
S FOR SNITCHES
FUCK VICE

>>19135095
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>>19135148
The north Korea and Siberian train ones were great

>>19135148
Yeah, it's hard to comprehend how Gavin McGinnes and vice could have changed so much. It's insane.

I remember a relative mailing me a bunch of old Vice magazines. I thought they were really cool. Why does everything have to get so shitty? S

>>19135148
Vice used to be actually entertaining gonzo style reporting and almost pseudo-anthropology, with journalists going out and doing participant observation with the weirdest and most fucked up shit they could find and bringing it back for your viewing pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKWLC87Uzw

When they stopped being wannabe Hunter S Thompsons is when they lost all appeal, nobody gives a fuck about their stupid activism shit I want to see what you can get morons to admit to doing on camera and expose how weird, stupid, and corrupt people are

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>>19135244
Everything turned to shit sometime around 2013.

>>19135277
they mayans were right, the world really did end in 2012, it was just a spiritual death and our bodies haven't caught up yet.

alternatively: the large hadron collider really did destroy our universe when it was turned on, and in doing so sent us into the clownworld timeline

>tons of people forced to stay home and not work
>biggest news period in recent memory
>media companies' revenue is being slammed by this, somehow

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>>19135148
No need to remember anything since you can watch those on YouTube right now

>>19135326
Gotta be. I've been trying to pinpoint it to some world event or inflection point but there really wasn't anything. It just came out of nowhere almost.

>>19135326
Honestly everything seemed to start to go downhill about then, interesting observation

>>19135250
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo liberan warlords FTW

>>19135150
i'm havin a laff
t. gavin

>>19135095
hope VICE gets killed

>>19135095
>media revenue
>vice an online company getting less revenue...
>online...
maybe more normies got adblock lmao

>>19135326
>large hadron collider
imagine for a sec if suddenly a large number of dogs started to gender switch....so much so that male dogs would bite their own dicks/nuts off.

there would be outcries and scientist studying it....ppl would suspect sometype of weird environmental poisoning....

why isn't this happening then?

>>19135095
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fuck that retarded ass "news" organization
>>19135148
Yes, it was a rough decline into what they became

>>19135148

Yes, it used to be subversive and actually (not faux) counter-culture and publish writing that was actually unique, witty and funny. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qb3g75/poster-v12n1

>>19135237

Gavin got booted a while ago so they could fundraise. It's all been Shane Smith's for a while.

>>19135095
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>>19135340
They're just blaming it on Corona, they were losing money and their reputation long before this

>>19135095
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>>19135095
they should learn to code.

>>19135148
They have the best documentary on Afghanistan called "This is what winning looks like".

>t. Helmand vet

>>19135340
When was the last time your saw a Vice Video on their site, I'd bet close to Zero times, You see their content on facebook and youtube, who previously would only take a slice of the profit, are now taking almost the whole pie. Self shot content is way cheaper to produce and can regularly get millions of Veiwers e.g Pewdipie. Vice's videos with a production team costs a lot more to make. That film which cost thousands to make is not getting anywhere near the revenue they would earn a few years ago. fuckin brainlets

>>19136897
why do people prefer low quality shit production poorly sourced short films vs. something like Vice?

anything on YT doesn't have better taste.

>>19135340
People aren't buying shit they don't need during these uncertain times so advertising budgets got cut significantly. I heard YouTube CPM is down -50% or more for creators.

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>>19135095
Oh no! How will I receive my propaganda now?!

>>19135148
Went from epitome of cool (2002-2004), to woke trash. In between was a period of irrelevance.
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T. 36 yr old Boomer

>NOOOOOOOO THEY CAN'T MAKE FUN OF TRUMP!!!!!!!
>AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They'll be back once it blows over.

>>19139200
Another /leftypol/ refugee. Fuck off cracker

>>19139325
he's right tho, you guys just hate anything that isnt right wing. also, this isnt even /pol/ in the first place so you fuck off.

>>19135148
I know the exact moment it went to shit, when they had the Obama interviews. Probably made a deal with the devil to get that access and here they are now

>>19139345
Vice never was right wing, it's basically a bunch of hippies. But they used to be a bunch of hippies trying to tell the truth, now they're just one more shilling agency

>>19135095
VICETODDLERS BTFO

>>19135095
Worst part is any 'independent' will now be bought up & conglomerated.

>>19135095
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>>19135148
Vice and Vice News are two different things. Vice Has always reported on out there shit, but Vice NEWs has to doi t everyday, so they just do “my genderfluid horse” and “1000 staples in my pp” shock shit.
Vice still does like exposes about other countries, look for that, not the vice NEWS on snapchat and shit, I thought you anons didn’t use social media.

>>19135340
Zoomers don't remember this, but media suffered great losses in 2008. Nobody was buying their ad space, businesses just didn't have the money to spend on advertising.

>>19135148
Because they sold a bit chunk of their company to Murdoch

>>19139412
Baste!

>>19135148
shane smith used to be based

How did covid get them? Isn't all their revenue from clicks and now people have all the time to click to their hearts content?

>>19136581
based
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>>19135095
I dont really like the majority of their videos , but this one I really liked, I just wished they did more videos with this format, where you see the actual subject speak and do their thing instead of having some snobby interviewer asking stupid questions non stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQl6BnDRQg

>>19139345
>>19139200
>NOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T DISLIKE VICE OR YOU LIKE DRUMPF
Really weak shilling

>>19135095
Let's all not forget about one of their master pieces. Making love to donkeys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKWLC87Uzw

>>19139546
Problem is they stopped at least 5 years ago to really do documentaries and instead just cared about pleasing SJWs worldview. You recognize it quite fast just from the titles. They switched from covering interesting events to all pushing a feel-bad agenda that had the overarching theme of western society/white men should feel guilty.

Thanks for linking the bull rider doc! I am watching it right now. Looks like a homage to the good ol times of vice.

>>19135095
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they had some dope docus, but they turned too liberal

>>19139678
I feel like they peaked with their coverage of war in Ukraine and then someone high up told them they should stop being so neutral and objective in their reporting

>>19135095
Australian Mail Box in my city

>>19139678
I agree, sad they went with the SJW pandering , perhaps they might yet redeem themselves.

I absolutely fucking love how every time the MSM does a story about how Orange Man Bad for trying to reopen the economy they lose another 10 billion dollars across the board because the economy is still closed.
I might not have a job in about three weeks but at least I have that.

>>19135095
How does Vice lose money in this pandemic? All their stuff is digital and there's shit tons of news going on.

>>19135340

Because media companies made their money from ads. And because of Corona most companies are cutting back on ad budgets, many are closing down or going out of business. Google Adsense CPM for my business halved from just March to April alone. I don't care too much because I have a normal job too, but imagine relying on ad revenue for your income. It's a bloodbath out there.

>>19135148
Yeah, as someone who grew up sheltered in the rural bible belt, Vice had some eye opening shit back in the day.

There was one video, which seems to have been scrubbed from the internet now, about this rave month-long rave in the black sea called Kazantip. It was a bunch of russian mobsters and super hot eastern euro chicks partying and fucking; at that time they were in their 60's cultural revolution free-love phase, and so it was total debauchery. There was even a part about how there were underage teens there getting in on the action, and a chick letting a dog lick her.. I'm thinking that part is why they took it down.

>>19135250
Fucking based.

>>19139678
>instead just cared about pleasing SJWs worldview.

Them and everyone else and there's no sign it's slowing down

>>19135095
Thank god

>>19135095
cockbig 19

>>19135095
>Press S to spit on their grave
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>>19135148
Their Liberia documentary was based. Their drug videos were pretty solid as well

>>19135148

I'm surprised they even pay their staff.

I remember there being a point about 10 years ago where I felt I was being tricked watching videos on the site.

why not just take over the throne yourselves then /biz/?

what are some topics you would cover?

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>>19142768
Oh man I forgot about the Liberia one, that was nuts.
>>19143770
>why not just take over the throne yourselves then /biz/?
>what are some topics you would cover?
I'm not a journalist, but how about:
Other than 4chan, where can you go for subversive news and videos like early days, pre-cucked Vice?