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Do you really need a breakdown? Alright. Kotaku even at it's very best was never journalism in the first place. They never adhered to the most basic standards of journalistic professionalism practices and ethics. They were from day one explicitly a blog, and with about 2 exceptions their staff didn't know or give a fuck about the differences between event reporting, feature writing and op ed. They didn't keep a firewall between editorial and biz, which older anons who know anything about video game reporting know is what went nuclear between Gamestop and Gerstman. They flat out admitted it in court and tried to use their lack of journalistic practices as a defense in the Hogan case. In fact, it's their practices, and the sites that followed in their footsteps that lead the big gaming press to the point where they are today: less relevant than random dweebs on youtube.
So, to slow it down even further, Kotaku was a world fucking leader in clickbait and they were literally adjudicated and found to be shit quality to the point of having their reporting determined to not be journalism but a tort by a jury, which makes that twitter/bluesky whatever the fuck conversation hilarious.
Your point about AI is a non sequitor. It's going to happen. It's not going to matter that much about who's label is on it. Kotaku currently has no talent, or even a brand name that makes someone expect talent, much less any indication that they're going to do anything other than AI shit in the first place..
t. Worked for Tom's Hardware back in the day.
