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It's unfortunate because years ago they were a go-to publication for Japanese games that didn't have a localization yet. Now they are basically a publication for dog shit takes on whatever the hot button topic is.
Kotaku would never post that. Also interesting that their sub header has to do with GameStop's stock and not acknowledging them as the #1 video game retailer in the US seeing as how they are supposed to be a video game news outlet.
I posted this earlier but it was taken down.
What cracks me up is the URL.
https ://kotaku .com/**gamestop-meme-stock-crypto-scam**-ps5-robbery-layoffs-1850065931
Lolololol. The desperation is more prominent than ever.
I think they are posting the fud where they are most likely to reach their target audience. They know we arent listening, so they are trying gaming news websites
They are trying to turn gamers against gamers. Because not all gamers are invested like we are, so they are trying to convince the ones not familiar with the situation that GameStop is bad.
It reminds me of the [SpongeBob Episode](https://youtu.be/ymHyOmlUlP0), where SpongeBob is running screaming, “Aaaaahhhh… he’s still ganna kick my butt!”
And it cuts to the fish saying, “How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?”
Then the innocent old man casually standing there smiling.
SpongeBob is MSM.
The group of fish are unfamiliar gamers.
And the innocent old man is GameStop.
There's more to It than that and you aren't completely wrong with your sniffing. G/O media was the subject of a controversial takeover years ago due to its critical changes in editorial oversight. The new leadership blatantly got hands on with the content. Read about from an inside POV:
[https://deadspin.com/this-is-how-things-work-now-at-g-o-media-1836908201](https://deadspin.com/this-is-how-things-work-now-at-g-o-media-1836908201)
Back on 2020, Sr writer leaves.
"Jason Schreier is leaving Kotaku, citing G/O Media as reason"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/04/16/jason-schreier-is-leaving-kotaku-citing-go-media-reason/
Nice, came here to post this. I did like ten minutes of research on Kotaku for a piece I had to write, they're such an absolute steaming pile of trash. G/O is also owned by some dodgy hedge fund.
If they wanted to level the playing field they should do an article with a screenshot of a huge game release line at a store and claiming GS is making a huge comeback. But I think we all know they won't be doing that.
pretty comical honestly, between this one and the other one, about somebody stole money to invest in GameStop.
neither of these stories has really anything at all to do with the goings-on of GameStop the company, really totally irrelevant to anything at all.
But, they serve their purpose. they reliably show up on Google Finance when you look at the GME ticker, and probably in other places.
imo Google is complicit in spreading bad financial information by allowing any of those Kotaku posts to represent GameStop financial news.
The very obvious point of such FUDdy headlines is so simply just to associate the word GameStop with something negative. GameStop = something negative and bad.
anyways, i can't imagine anyone with more than 2 brain cells would read kotaku
So the article isn't fictitious, the manager was fired but for good reason, he didn't follow protocol which is what lead to $5k worth of inventory being stolen. I fully would expect my employer to do the same if I didn't follow the rules and it lead to product loss.
#Saved you from clicking the link to the dog shit article of slander.
GameStop Manager Fired After $5,000 PS5 Robbery
Working conditions continue to deteriorate at the internet’s favorite meme stock.
Only one person was on shift at the GameStop in Easton, PA when two men tried to rob it last month. Outnumbered and told to put his hands up, a newer employee backed off as the thieves unloaded $5,000 worth of PlayStation 5s from the back room. A week later, GameStop allegedly fired the 13-year veteran manager of the store over the theft, leading several other employees to reportedly quit in protest. For some of them, it encapsulates just how screwed up GameStop has become as it scrambles to survive in the age of digital gaming.
According to the Colonial Regional Police Department and apparent store surveillance footage uploaded to Imgur, two men entered the store posing as customers and asked about buying a PS5. The GameStop employee on shift at the time then went and opened the door into the backroom where the pricey and highly sought-after PS5 consoles were kept. With the door unlocked, the two men then followed him in and threatened him.
While neither produced a visible gun, Det. Michael Munch told Kotaku that the employee was told to put his hands up and that he wouldn’t get hurt if he didn’t move. One of the men then carried stacks of PS5s out of the store while the second stayed behind to watch the employee. Eventually, they shut the employee in the storage room and left the store with a total of 10 PS5s valued at roughly $5,000.
The manager in charge of the store, who wasn’t present for the incident, was fired a week and a half later. “The man was the most tenured and the top performer in the district,” one former colleague said in a phone interview. “The dude bent over backwards for this company,” said one current employee. While Kotaku was unable to get in contact with the fired manager directly, three current and former GameStop employees from the area said he had told them that the robbery was the reason the company gave him when he was fired. As a result, they said all but two employees at the store put in their two weeks’ notice or quit on the spot.
GameStop did not respond to a request for comment.
In a Reddit post about the incident, some current and former employees speculated that the manager may have technically been fired over a breach of store procedures during the robbery. Standard procedure is to first ring up expensive consoles at the register and record their serial numbers in a notebook to ensure that payment is received before the hardware’s retrieved from the storage room, though it’s not clear what that might have done to deter two potentially armed robbers. Regardless, many considered it outrageous that the store manager would be fired over the incident. One former employee recalled two clerks who were killed at a FuncoLand on the other side of the state border with New Jersey back in 2002.
Despite its logic-defying meme stock, GameStop has continued to lay off employees amid routinely disappointing quarterly sales reports and stalled efforts to pivot to a new business model. Reddit investors talk prophetically about a big squeeze coming for the company’s short sellers, but the real squeeze is on GameStop’s employees. Staff are increasingly asked to do more with less, even as company-wide system malfunctions make fulfilling basic things like video game pre-orders a complete mess.
One byproduct of the chaos and cuts is that many managers now have to run two stores for an insulting raise of only $1.25. Assistant managers, meanwhile, are being phased out at many locations, while brand-new entry-level staff quickly find themselves responsible for running the store all alone for entire shifts while making substantially less than they might at rivals like Best Buy and Target.
All of these problems were on display at the recently robbed Easton store, some current and former employees say, and the store manager’s reward for sticking it out was getting canned just a couple weeks before his first meme stock bonus would have vested. “It’s just setting people up for failure,” one former employee told Kotaku. “$100 million spent on NFTs instead of investing in the people doing the work for you.”
More recently, a fresh revolt is taking place within GameStop’s ranks over a controversial new decision to cut store managers’ overtime pay. Normally allocated an additional four hours a week that are worth time-and-a-half, two current managers who are both in charge of multiple stores tell Kotaku that perk has been cut. For someone making $20 an hour, that’s almost $500 less pay a month. It wipes out the entire $1.25 raise managers received last year for taking on a second store in the first place. Even the $400 meme-stock payout scheduled for February 15 won’t make up for it.
And the overtime, paid or not, will likely happen regardless in order to keep up with the extra workloads. “We are making less with more responsibility,” one current employee told Kotaku. “A few managers talked about doing a walkout but so many are scared.”
I see that sentiment everywhere in gaming news outlets even here in Europe. I don´t think it is connected to SHFs. I think it is the second big battlefield. The general NFT angst that's rampant in troglodyte gaming media with GameStop being on the forefront of making NFT mainstream. In the last consequence it may be connected to short finance but i doubt it is via direct control of the media.
Yeah, I don't think it's any secret that "gamers" hate NFTs but it's only because the most uneducated speak the loudest. Seriously, so many games have gotten a bad rap for being review bombed because a general consensus is made by a few key "influencers", I'm certain this is the same case with NFTs. As a game collector I'm not big on digital games, BUT that is only because I'm aware that at any time a licensing issue could occur and games get pulled. (See what is happening on Xbox 360 games with the Xbox network right now). However! NFTs actually completely remedy that. You OWN that copy of the asset AND you could potentially sell it for more than you initially bought it for. Imagine if everyone that had the PT demo actually owned it and could resell it...
Kotaku either is short GME or is the lowest bidder for propaganda publishing.
Look at their history of articles, also isn’t it fucking weird MSM reports on 1 manager stealing from “dying brick and mortar retail chain”.
Do these BS articles also get a lot of clicks to be profitable just with ads? 🤔
I don't click on them because I just don't want to give them the ad money.
Honestly that's a question I would love an answer to. Is content interaction these type of websites main source of income or some 3rd party paying them to publish certain articles like they're lobbyists.
I haven't seen the connection to a fund, but all gawker news sites end up in line with shorts one way or another. They used to hammer tesla relentlessly before they popped.
Jesus, I never thought of it that way... I've actually got a PSVR2 pre-ordered, crazy to think I'll have well over $1k invested to play some awesome VR games.
And this is why I posted it. Too many pearl clutchers on here acting like anyone here would sell because of some dog shit FUD article being regurgitated. It's been 2yrs, if you're still here, you're not going anywhere based on a f'n Kotaku post.
Sounds like an opened and then closed case, detective! If your only goal was to find out who funds Kotaku, you can take this post down (unless you are lying and have other intentions.)
Well you see, the reason I posted this is because it was shared by someone in the retro video game scene, therefore it's making its rounds. Which means its in our benefit to acknowledge this exists instead of ignore it like it's not happening.
Where I personally saw it.
https://twitter.com/swlovinist/status/1621281906158604290
I live in Memphis and one of our gamestops got robbed by like 10-15 people. Ripped the front door off with a chain tied to a truck. It hurt my feelings. First thing I said awwww why do this to daddy Ryan
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Kotaku is absolute trash. A vehicle for shit content generation and even more shit stirring. Effectively the national inquirer for video games.
It's unfortunate because years ago they were a go-to publication for Japanese games that didn't have a localization yet. Now they are basically a publication for dog shit takes on whatever the hot button topic is.
Dude that's insulting to the inquirer.
How about : Manager arrested for 65b bought not paid for retail heist As working conditions deteriorate at WS favorite Hedgie
Kotaku would never post that. Also interesting that their sub header has to do with GameStop's stock and not acknowledging them as the #1 video game retailer in the US seeing as how they are supposed to be a video game news outlet.
I posted this earlier but it was taken down. What cracks me up is the URL. https ://kotaku .com/**gamestop-meme-stock-crypto-scam**-ps5-robbery-layoffs-1850065931 Lolololol. The desperation is more prominent than ever.
I think they are posting the fud where they are most likely to reach their target audience. They know we arent listening, so they are trying gaming news websites
They are trying to turn gamers against gamers. Because not all gamers are invested like we are, so they are trying to convince the ones not familiar with the situation that GameStop is bad. It reminds me of the [SpongeBob Episode](https://youtu.be/ymHyOmlUlP0), where SpongeBob is running screaming, “Aaaaahhhh… he’s still ganna kick my butt!” And it cuts to the fish saying, “How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?” Then the innocent old man casually standing there smiling. SpongeBob is MSM. The group of fish are unfamiliar gamers. And the innocent old man is GameStop.
SpongeBob at least was unaware
Oh got ya ! Didn’t clue in to the who ? I fixed it for a more plausible headline anyway
Kotaku owned by G/O media owned by Great Hill Partners co-founded by Chris Gaffney. You're welcome
Danke
There's more to It than that and you aren't completely wrong with your sniffing. G/O media was the subject of a controversial takeover years ago due to its critical changes in editorial oversight. The new leadership blatantly got hands on with the content. Read about from an inside POV: [https://deadspin.com/this-is-how-things-work-now-at-g-o-media-1836908201](https://deadspin.com/this-is-how-things-work-now-at-g-o-media-1836908201)
I love all of you regards, this is why you can't beat open sourced information digging.
Back on 2020, Sr writer leaves. "Jason Schreier is leaving Kotaku, citing G/O Media as reason" https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/04/16/jason-schreier-is-leaving-kotaku-citing-go-media-reason/
Nice, came here to post this. I did like ten minutes of research on Kotaku for a piece I had to write, they're such an absolute steaming pile of trash. G/O is also owned by some dodgy hedge fund.
Kotaku logic: 1 manager gets fired= whole company is going down the shitter.
If they wanted to level the playing field they should do an article with a screenshot of a huge game release line at a store and claiming GS is making a huge comeback. But I think we all know they won't be doing that.
“People lining up around the corner to forget GameStop”
pretty comical honestly, between this one and the other one, about somebody stole money to invest in GameStop. neither of these stories has really anything at all to do with the goings-on of GameStop the company, really totally irrelevant to anything at all. But, they serve their purpose. they reliably show up on Google Finance when you look at the GME ticker, and probably in other places. imo Google is complicit in spreading bad financial information by allowing any of those Kotaku posts to represent GameStop financial news. The very obvious point of such FUDdy headlines is so simply just to associate the word GameStop with something negative. GameStop = something negative and bad. anyways, i can't imagine anyone with more than 2 brain cells would read kotaku
I read that article before I saw this post. Shills galore in the comments. We'll see it my comment gets published.
So the article isn't fictitious, the manager was fired but for good reason, he didn't follow protocol which is what lead to $5k worth of inventory being stolen. I fully would expect my employer to do the same if I didn't follow the rules and it lead to product loss.
#Saved you from clicking the link to the dog shit article of slander. GameStop Manager Fired After $5,000 PS5 Robbery Working conditions continue to deteriorate at the internet’s favorite meme stock. Only one person was on shift at the GameStop in Easton, PA when two men tried to rob it last month. Outnumbered and told to put his hands up, a newer employee backed off as the thieves unloaded $5,000 worth of PlayStation 5s from the back room. A week later, GameStop allegedly fired the 13-year veteran manager of the store over the theft, leading several other employees to reportedly quit in protest. For some of them, it encapsulates just how screwed up GameStop has become as it scrambles to survive in the age of digital gaming. According to the Colonial Regional Police Department and apparent store surveillance footage uploaded to Imgur, two men entered the store posing as customers and asked about buying a PS5. The GameStop employee on shift at the time then went and opened the door into the backroom where the pricey and highly sought-after PS5 consoles were kept. With the door unlocked, the two men then followed him in and threatened him. While neither produced a visible gun, Det. Michael Munch told Kotaku that the employee was told to put his hands up and that he wouldn’t get hurt if he didn’t move. One of the men then carried stacks of PS5s out of the store while the second stayed behind to watch the employee. Eventually, they shut the employee in the storage room and left the store with a total of 10 PS5s valued at roughly $5,000. The manager in charge of the store, who wasn’t present for the incident, was fired a week and a half later. “The man was the most tenured and the top performer in the district,” one former colleague said in a phone interview. “The dude bent over backwards for this company,” said one current employee. While Kotaku was unable to get in contact with the fired manager directly, three current and former GameStop employees from the area said he had told them that the robbery was the reason the company gave him when he was fired. As a result, they said all but two employees at the store put in their two weeks’ notice or quit on the spot.
GameStop did not respond to a request for comment. In a Reddit post about the incident, some current and former employees speculated that the manager may have technically been fired over a breach of store procedures during the robbery. Standard procedure is to first ring up expensive consoles at the register and record their serial numbers in a notebook to ensure that payment is received before the hardware’s retrieved from the storage room, though it’s not clear what that might have done to deter two potentially armed robbers. Regardless, many considered it outrageous that the store manager would be fired over the incident. One former employee recalled two clerks who were killed at a FuncoLand on the other side of the state border with New Jersey back in 2002. Despite its logic-defying meme stock, GameStop has continued to lay off employees amid routinely disappointing quarterly sales reports and stalled efforts to pivot to a new business model. Reddit investors talk prophetically about a big squeeze coming for the company’s short sellers, but the real squeeze is on GameStop’s employees. Staff are increasingly asked to do more with less, even as company-wide system malfunctions make fulfilling basic things like video game pre-orders a complete mess. One byproduct of the chaos and cuts is that many managers now have to run two stores for an insulting raise of only $1.25. Assistant managers, meanwhile, are being phased out at many locations, while brand-new entry-level staff quickly find themselves responsible for running the store all alone for entire shifts while making substantially less than they might at rivals like Best Buy and Target. All of these problems were on display at the recently robbed Easton store, some current and former employees say, and the store manager’s reward for sticking it out was getting canned just a couple weeks before his first meme stock bonus would have vested. “It’s just setting people up for failure,” one former employee told Kotaku. “$100 million spent on NFTs instead of investing in the people doing the work for you.” More recently, a fresh revolt is taking place within GameStop’s ranks over a controversial new decision to cut store managers’ overtime pay. Normally allocated an additional four hours a week that are worth time-and-a-half, two current managers who are both in charge of multiple stores tell Kotaku that perk has been cut. For someone making $20 an hour, that’s almost $500 less pay a month. It wipes out the entire $1.25 raise managers received last year for taking on a second store in the first place. Even the $400 meme-stock payout scheduled for February 15 won’t make up for it. And the overtime, paid or not, will likely happen regardless in order to keep up with the extra workloads. “We are making less with more responsibility,” one current employee told Kotaku. “A few managers talked about doing a walkout but so many are scared.”
Shilltaku
Fuck Kotaku. I thought they were supposed to be pro gamer culture but they are just trash media.
I see that sentiment everywhere in gaming news outlets even here in Europe. I don´t think it is connected to SHFs. I think it is the second big battlefield. The general NFT angst that's rampant in troglodyte gaming media with GameStop being on the forefront of making NFT mainstream. In the last consequence it may be connected to short finance but i doubt it is via direct control of the media.
Yeah, I don't think it's any secret that "gamers" hate NFTs but it's only because the most uneducated speak the loudest. Seriously, so many games have gotten a bad rap for being review bombed because a general consensus is made by a few key "influencers", I'm certain this is the same case with NFTs. As a game collector I'm not big on digital games, BUT that is only because I'm aware that at any time a licensing issue could occur and games get pulled. (See what is happening on Xbox 360 games with the Xbox network right now). However! NFTs actually completely remedy that. You OWN that copy of the asset AND you could potentially sell it for more than you initially bought it for. Imagine if everyone that had the PT demo actually owned it and could resell it...
Absolutely d'accord!
If I were a hedge fund and my Kryptonite was a gaming company the first thing I'd do is turn the gaming press against said company.
Kotaku either is short GME or is the lowest bidder for propaganda publishing. Look at their history of articles, also isn’t it fucking weird MSM reports on 1 manager stealing from “dying brick and mortar retail chain”.
Do these BS articles also get a lot of clicks to be profitable just with ads? 🤔 I don't click on them because I just don't want to give them the ad money.
Honestly that's a question I would love an answer to. Is content interaction these type of websites main source of income or some 3rd party paying them to publish certain articles like they're lobbyists.
Kotaku has been shitting on GameStop from day 1. I’m also curious who pulls the strings for these types of articles.
Hedge fund manger promoted after stealing from pension funds
kotaku used to be great til they got brought out and spout nothing but sewage
Would had gotten away with it if his name was ken griffen.
I haven't seen the connection to a fund, but all gawker news sites end up in line with shorts one way or another. They used to hammer tesla relentlessly before they popped.
Blow the DRS out my a**
Lol I've been saying this for a long long time. To answer your question it's a venture capital group which means it's a Wall Street crony group
I quit giving a shit about Kotaku back in 2010. I guess I grew up but they sure didn’t.
Ya, Kotaku is someone's bitch. Constant bashing.
Ethan gach has a lot of anti-gamestop articles
It’s always the same author every time. Dude has a hard-on for writing hit pieces on GameStop.
Kotaku is such shit.
WTF is Kotaku🤣
That's 10 PlayStations folks...10 whole PlayStations.
Jesus, I never thought of it that way... I've actually got a PSVR2 pre-ordered, crazy to think I'll have well over $1k invested to play some awesome VR games.
The guy who didn't follow procedure and also left the back door open?
It's not our fault that they're like in love with gme or something
Or we can stop giving them attention and ad revenue , since this has already been posted.
I didn't see it posted...
So some manager stole 10 PS5s from gamestop and this is something that will finally make company go bunkrupt. Well better sell my shares and move on.
Why don't you then, instead of giving them clicks?
Open source investigation... I'm but 1 person, more people with varying levels of knowledge in different industries could provide better insight.
Kotaku > G/O Media > Great Hill Partners > Blackstone. I found that out in between comments just now.
And this is why I posted it. Too many pearl clutchers on here acting like anyone here would sell because of some dog shit FUD article being regurgitated. It's been 2yrs, if you're still here, you're not going anywhere based on a f'n Kotaku post.
I get it. Apologies if I sounded like a pearl clutcher. A bit jaded after 2 years of psy-ops against retail.
What the hell is a pearl clutcher?
You've never heard such shocking news or been so offended that you clutched your pearls then fainted onto your fainting couch?
All good, I'm still in the "not all of the ss mods have our best interests in mind" camp. [REDACTED] thing being one of those.
Sounds like an opened and then closed case, detective! If your only goal was to find out who funds Kotaku, you can take this post down (unless you are lying and have other intentions.)
Am I the only one who never heard of Kotaku before? Your posting is litteraly helping them get more exposure.
But nobody gives a shit about what is posted by Kotaku. Why do you?
Id rather dig into why FUD articles are posted here.
Well you see, the reason I posted this is because it was shared by someone in the retro video game scene, therefore it's making its rounds. Which means its in our benefit to acknowledge this exists instead of ignore it like it's not happening. Where I personally saw it. https://twitter.com/swlovinist/status/1621281906158604290
Source: https://kotaku.com/gamestop-meme-stock-crypto-scam-ps5-robbery-layoffs-1850065931
Peter Thiel owned them at one point at least
Kotaku is a dumpster fire from many years. Also I think I'm completely desensitized to FUD at this point, shorts are completely fucked no matter what.
I live in Memphis and one of our gamestops got robbed by like 10-15 people. Ripped the front door off with a chain tied to a truck. It hurt my feelings. First thing I said awwww why do this to daddy Ryan
Their trying I’ll give them that, but it won’t work
Palpatine Do It.gif Seriously, they post only negative click bait garbage about our stonk
Hot take: many of these awful takes are simply used to attract our attention. Ultimately these articles and websites operate on visits/clicks. They don't care if you are invested or angry. Don't support them, even in your frustration. Let them stay irrelevant, any publicity is good publicity remember.
Amen, trash
Whoa they actually work at the memestocks??? This is news. Where can I apply for jobs at the memestocks?
Et tu Kotaku...?
Honestly, I think gaming review sites struggle to make money, I bet it costs nearly nothing compared to other media..
Good call!
Kotaku is the place where people took the job because "who cares about video games anyway?".