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Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby Taluun » Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:23 pm

So according to an article shared by Brockway on his facebook Cracked is no longer owned by Demand media and is owned by E.W Scripps Co.

Reading through the article it does not fill me with hope. This talk about trying to rapidly expand sounds like the quality will decrease. Also the line
Cracked "absolutely has that authentic voice" that millennials value, Mr. Symson said.
just made me laugh given that they have literally posted articles by people who admitted to making them strictly to troll people among other things.

Overall I am not optimistic about this. :(
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby SammyTrujillo » Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:38 pm

I don't think you have much to worry about. From what I know, it doesn't seem like much will change in terms of articles written. It might affect the videos, however. The article says they want to expand their video and audio productions. DOB, who is in charge of videos, seems pretty stoked about the ordeal. If it means more Rom.Com then I'm happy.

Taluun wrote:they have literally posted articles by people who admitted to making them strictly to troll people


Whoa man. You should put up a trigger warning if you are gonna give me flashbacks of Nicholas Pell.
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby archaeologydalek » Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:43 pm

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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby Marcuse » Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:57 pm

Soooo...

You guys are gonna start a theatre based comedy called "Ew, Scripts" right?

RIGHT????
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby gisambards » Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:08 am

I was originally going to express a mistrust of companies like what I assumed E. W. Scripps was, as I assumed it was one of these new social media clickbait conglomerates - like Gawker, or Demand, who previously owned Cracked - but it turns out Scripps is a proper, massive media conglomerate that has existed since 1878, so I'm actually slightly impressed. Also, this appears to be their first foray into website ownership, or at least a website of this popularity, so that's interesting.
Overall, I imagine things won't change much. But if anything this might mean a decrease in clickbait.

Of course Sod's Law says that, now that I've expressed optimism about this, tomorrow will see a Nicholas Pell article (I'm horrified to discover I actually still experience real frustration thinking about that guy after however long it's been, which is so much worse because that's exactly what he wanted!).
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby NathanLoiselle » Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:29 am

I have no opinion on this until someone tells me I should have an opinion.
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby Matthew Notch » Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:29 am

SAMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY hello.

If anything, I'm optimistic! Maybe we'll start getting those weird articles about weird stuff that only I liked again. Those were the best. "So Your Pizza Has Gained Sentience And Is Trying To Eat Your Cat..."

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Nathan wrote:I have no opinion on this until someone tells me I should have an opinion.


Shut up Nathan
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby Qinglong » Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:52 am

Matthew Notch wrote:Maybe we'll start getting those weird articles about weird stuff that only I liked again. Those were the best. "So Your Pizza Has Gained Sentience And Is Trying To Eat Your Cat..."

Chris Bucholz still writes those. And I hope he always does.

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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby Taluun » Wed Apr 13, 2016 2:42 am

Matthew Notch wrote:SAMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY hello.

If anything, I'm optimistic! Maybe we'll start getting those weird articles about weird stuff that only I liked again. Those were the best. "So Your Pizza Has Gained Sentience And Is Trying To Eat Your Cat..."

EDIT!!:

Nathan wrote:I have no opinion on this until someone tells me I should have an opinion.


Shut up Nathan


Thats what I thought at first as well but the line about wanting to expand rapidly does not make me confident in that first thought as usually that kind of thing comes at a loss of quality. Most things when you improve speed causes them to also lose quality.
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby NathanLoiselle » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:17 am

I'm betting that if young Hitler knew what old Hitler was going to do then young Hitler would shoot old Hitler. But that's just a guess.
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby Taluun » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:20 am

What about lil Hitler?
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby JamishT » Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:36 am

E. W. Scripps Co. sounds like they should sell old timey mining equipment or something. I'm a little hopeful anyway!
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Wed Apr 13, 2016 6:03 am

E.W. Scripps larglly dealing with print is certainly a good thing.
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby iMURDAu » Thu Apr 14, 2016 1:07 pm

"An authentic voice"... provided you don't think about offering any criticism or hold an opposing view.
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Re: Cracked is now owned by E. W. Scripps Co.

Postby TheSyrupNugget » Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:05 am

Given that they've existed and succeeded for so long, I assume that Scripps did more due diligence than just reading some articles from 2010 and going "Man, this stuff is great. They must only have gotten better from here!"

It doesn't seem like they did, but I'm sure they did.
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