What Went Wrong with VICE?
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Discover the shocking downfall of VICE from a $5.7B media giant to bankruptcy. Learn more about what led to VICE's financial troubles and ultimate shut down.
If you were tuned to pop culture in the 2010s, then you know that it was impossible to escape Vice. No, we don’t mean drinking, drugs, and partying, though that’s going to come up later in this video, don’t worry. We mean Vice, the Canadian-American media company that’s been at the forefront of entertainment and journalism for years.
This company was behind such iconic documentaries like FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened which exposed the infamous Fyre Festival and Make the World Greta Again which followed climate activist Great Thunberg. Being at the cutting edge of journalism, Vice Media was a hot corporate property. In the same decade, Vice saw hundreds of millions of dollars in investment from 21st Century Fox, TPG Capital and A&E networks.
Now, just a few years after these decade-defining creative wins and financial backing, Vice has filed for bankruptcy. This comes months after the company cancelled several projects already in development and laid off staff.
So, what went wrong? How could a company that was valued at $5.7 billion a few years ago be going bankrupt? And is there any hope of Vice recovering from this setback? Stick around and we’ll dive right in.
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How about I just block this channel for this ridiculous comment. Ok. I will. Thumbs down.
People investing a lot does not mean it makes any money just means it burns investor money a scam.
racist, woke, full of democrats supporter, lier, propaganda.. KARMA to VICE , good!
go woke go broke. serves them right. liberals have no grasp of reality.
Vice died because it went from real hardcore "bulletproof vest journalism" to listicles like "Why your choice of dog proves you're racist."
It's crazy, that you can comment on a thing and not watch it.
@@bobdole3996it does survive off viewer too so if they started posting dumb stories then people will quit watching it.
I stopped after they quit the awesome intense coverage. And started just doing silly reports or just weed weeed weeeeed weeeed lol
@ghostyboy9469 or the internet media bubble has busted. There are plenty of "non woke" new media companies going under.
This is what capitalism looks like. 👍🏿
😂😂😂 💯
It went from guerilla journalism to hipster CNN.
it started when they hired more interns than journalists
Woke interns
They/them c*nts
They barely hired journalists either - just a bunch of pot heads and shroomers doing stories on absolute irrelevant nonsense. Bye!
@@carknower🙄
When George soros bought it you mean.
They went from interviewing criminal bosses and counter culture to being part of the status quo, allowing governments to use their platform for politics. They started taking sides, which alienated their audience
Absolutely, another intelligence apparatus attack vector
By status quo, you mean preachy leftist cucks?
And they took the NY times side, but we already have the NY times😅
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They were always tools. Guess you dont know much about their owners. They just snitched on enough bosses to become untrusted they played their part for their higher ups.
Not paying your freelancers, what a bunch of scumbags. Seems like they got some karma
It's free labor. Goy. 🇮🇱
Not just that, but once they lost their edge and then did the New Media thing of insulting their audience past 2013 you could see the writing on the wall.
Vice is full of lies, “freelancers” were not telling lies to make stories more interesting.
I was a victim of this they didnt pay me 3k
@@intubeintel I was about to comment that not paying free lancers is the sort of thing that ruins lives. I know so many up and coming people who had their professional careers blunted due to mega corporations simply not getting around to paying them. 3k is soooo much money for one person to lose.
Cannibal warlords of Liberia will live on as one of the most hardcore documentaries of all time.
I dunno, hanging around those Al Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban types as a Western journalist is quite possibly the most ballsy thing I ever seen
General buttnaked
And like every documentary they produced, it was 99% driving around in an SUV at night and having random people talk about things they’ve seen and not actually showing anything.
Damn man, I saw your comment as a recommendation.. holly shit I was not ready
I'm partial to Hamilton's Pharmacopoeia. He had some extremely unique subjects presented in a compelling way.
Vice turned from „New Media“ into „Old Media“ fast. As a viewer you could tell something changed.
Vice was "New Media" funded by "Old Media." (e.g. Disney)
"I did Ketamine with a Registered Sex Offender and this is what my mother said after" thats the kind of stuff Vice publishes 😂
That and "My girlfriends penis makes me a better man".
That's why we love it. Or the articles published on John Mcafee, "We're with John Mcafee, Suckers.", followed by ~ "We have no idea what's going on anymore."
racist, woke, full of democrats supporter, lier, propaganda.. KARMA to VICE , good!
😂😂 too true. They started reaching too far, in my opinion
Yeah the money they had? They probably done shot it up, snorted it up, and smoked it up. Also hookers.
Videos on bankruptcy should always have 11 chapters
Lol, good suggestion!
Sooo over looked but Sooo overstood 🫡😎
RUclips comments are always the best
racist, woke, full of democrats supporter, lier, propaganda.. KARMA to VICE , good!
Or 7 or 13.
They started out as everything we need from a news source - unbiased, raw, willing to ask difficult but important questions without an agenda. Often even diving into complex situations without a full understanding, actively seeking answers. It was refreshing and relatable.
After a while, they became just like the rest. They grew to be political, only covered certain types of stories and went into everything with an agenda and a pre-defined opinion that they would find some way to support.
They went from being a brand I’d instantly watch no matter what the title to being the exact opposite. They fell down to match the likes of Buzzfeed where any time you see that logo, you know there’s no actual value to be had and keep scrolling.
It’s a shame, really.
No one is unbiased. You sound like a child
Expansion kills everything because you end up trying to please too many people and end up pleasing none
Bullseye!
They expanded poorly aswell just put too many eggs in too many baskets haha
Explain Apple, Amazon, Microsoft etc.
Expanded too aggressively too soon. Spread itself too thin
@tradingmedic - Apple makes things people desire, Amazon are the rip-off merchants we all know and love, and Microsoft? Almost everybody had their computers for a time.
I used to watch their documentaries all the time, especially the ones about North Korea and the Suicide Forest. They were so edgy and fearless. But then they got too big for their own good and started spending money like crazy. Did you know that they once paid $20,000 for a single article about a drug dealer in Mexico?
They submitted to their masters.
Biased media. They r all dying slowly.
Their content got considerably more horrible, it literally focused on drug usage criminal shit and lbgtq
One would think there would be great spin offs… :(.
Russian Roulette with Simon was some of their best.
It's always amazing how a new CEO for a failing company can just come in and make some millions then leave the failed company
I must be in the wrong profession.
@@rustyshackelford3371nope you just haven’t navigated the corporate world correctly if at all
Someone making a cash grab from a sinking ship? I would of never thought
That's what's it like to be a great, the greatest business man. It's simple. It's like this.its this. If I hire you, as maybe a small service company, to do a job for my company, I'll say you have to do it before I pay you, then you do it, when you come to get paid, I say no, never. They get mad, because they know they can't sue me because they would spend more on lawyers than the bill. And That is the art of dealing with people who dont matter. (This may be based on several reprehensible stories)
@@Jaredthe1stur scum
I remember the “Cannibals of Liberia” documentaries. General Butt Naked, Mosquito and Mosquito Spray. 😂 good stuff!
Ha. That was wild.
Good times.
Hahaha Gen Butt naked, what a classic. I still tell people about it, they never believe 😂
how low they have fallen. They had some really hardcore documentaries that required big balls
Yup that was the best!
As a vet of the war in Afghanistan, the best way to truly show folks who wanted to know what it was like was Vice’s “What Winning Looks Like”. Truly an eye opener and when watched, folks know why the war ended like it did.
That was someone else who made that doc, Vice either purchased it or commissioned him, he has continued to make great work!
Omg yes so eye opening. Thank you for your service 🙏🏽
That was the best documentary I have seen. Completely gut wrenching and brutally honest.
I loved that docu, Vice was a real force of nature when I was growing up. After Trump got elected, they really fell off into far-left politics.
thank you for your service sir
Making documentaries for VICE was my dream job when I was younger
Vice media used to be great- now it’s embarrassing
racist, woke, full of democrats supporter, lier, propaganda.. KARMA to VICE , good!
I love how the company files for bankruptcy, and keeps firing people, but the top level management give themselves 150-200k bonuses...The worst human beings
They don’t give themselves bonuses lol. Its put into their contract when they are hired
In the corporate world, you fail up!
@@alexkrasnic3850 you defend these scums?
"Help, my kitchen is on fire"
"No problem, I destroyed your garage so the fire can't spread there. That'll be $1000.00"
this is how it is with corporations.
The love of money kills everything, including journalism. It’s just a matter of time.
This "documentary" seems fake and very deceptive...I';m sorry, but it's like it's created by A.I. with a human-like robot narrator.
There is something not quite right with this video. The language used, the diction, the repetition, its very strange! Not real! ChatGPT Cyborgs, and Skynet coming for what's left of your brains!
They wanted to emulate that super successful buzzfeed model..pffff hahahaha
The last time I checked Vice's RUclips channels I could not believe those videos were from VICE. Solo RUclipsrs are doing better job today even without having millions of investments in their channels.
Articles like " people who drink milk, are you ok?" And conststant push for people to try pegging was weird as fuck. I think they gave some 17 year old rainbow warriors free reign to find the most embarrassing and pointless shit they could
Yo dude I just googled because that statement with push for pegging sounded kinda wild but dude, aside from WEEEEEEEEEEED, pegging seems to be their number two topic - like what the actual f lol
@@RiggedFish haha its fucking so strange!!
They were really left wing 🪽. They suffered the same fate and biased as the legacy media, they only report for a minority of the population. Therefore, they could not grow. Instead of purchasing a single channel for 400 Millie. They should have sniped some of the talent from the website.
@@RiggedFishfuck I didn't know what that word mean=(((( and I was perfectly happy living without knowing it
They paid their staff like crap and all the money went to the top. Clearly the top believed they were indestructible and guess what, they weren’t.
Their staff was putting out garbage , that's why the company failed. Their management is also responsible for that though.
@@TheLaughingMustache-oh5ff - Well it was definitely not a main stream media, and they've done some really great pieces in their heyday. Evidently they weren't as good at financials. smh
Nope. Cnn paid anchors millions. Look at it now. But they have the similarity, try to guess
What caused their failure was they are WAY, WAY to the left of their audience. This is why nobody reads newspapers anymore too.
"They paid their staff like crap"
Good. their staff fucking sucked. They were the woke idiots suing the company and writing bullshit progressive propaganda. If I were the CEO of vice, I would have paid myself as much as possible, knowing the company was following a trajectory towards ruin and was unable to change because of the ownership stake they'd sold to woke corporations.
They peaked in 2012. Been over for a minute.
I still watch it what else is tv gud had best shows
one of my friends from college was the editor of their magazine. She left years ago though.
Don't say minute anymore. It makes you sound old and it makes you sound like you're not cool but you're trying to be
Im gonna keep using minute in that context @TheOakshard
2015
The cannibal generals of Liberia is one of the best vice documentaries on RUclips
When Vice came out, it was unlike any other news agency. They were provocative going after real story that the network would not touch, but then they sold out very disgusting.
While VICE routinely spoke out about the evils of the internet, they did so in such a way that never mentioned Facebook or Facebook Marketplace and it was all downhill from there
Bia sed me dia
@diegotr1903 I really enjoyed Vice until Trump got elected, then they went nuts about “far-right” bullshit stories. I’m center-right, they alienated a huge portion of their audience by making that move.
They literally had videos which were just of Trump repeating a certain phrase. Then those weird panels full of the most insufferable people in the world.
@@tbird81 yup
Remember the fued between General Mosquito and General Mosquito Spray? 😂
Hard to beat
General Butt Naked eat your heart
The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia series literally changed my outlook on the world as a young person.
Shows you how bad life can get without a functioning government holding things together.
Liberia man that was good one😂
They called him "Bullshitter Shane" for a reason.
Who bought them should tell you everything you need to know.
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rupert murdoch also bought a piece of the pie early on that was a telling sign, and its exceptionally funny how george soros seems to prop up every liberal institution that fails. pretty sure hes the current owner as well.
One of the smartest things said here. And no one’s lining up behind it. Instead just cawing away like a bunch of pet parrots stuck in their cage watching FoxNews all day … “caw … get woke go broke get woke go broke … caw”.
How do you explain the end of a media company that constantly did stories mainstream media wouldn’t touch and was often critical of the same companies and people that owned these msm companies? When those same ex-competitors become big “investors” in your contrarian media company … they mean to kill it off.
And they did. No doubt the owners made of with a tidy sum for opening the doors to let them in.
But when your competitors suddenly become your best buddy investors? They mean to put you out of business!
It’s like the Simpson’s episode with Bill Gates and Homers new internet company.
“Buy him out boys!” >
No surprise Vice didn’t survive the attack from outside “investors”.
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Facts!!!💯💯💯
I’m gonna miss Vice. They’ve done some of the most bad ass documentaries on the Internet.
Yeah, back in the late-2000s and early-2010s, they were unstoppable. I loved their stuff, then they went woke as hell. I don’t GAF about the politics, especially when it’s just echoing the same BS we hear on the mainstream news sources.
well Tommy thank goodness that we all still have you to make the docs that go behind the curtains of culture, lifestyles and just plain weird stuff that we all love! I love your channel, please keep going ✌🏻
Vice was a scam made no money but was allowed to take investor money.
Great news from vice such as Why your choice of dog proves you're racist.
@@Sniperboy5551you anti woke dudes are so ridiculous
It would be funny if Vice makes a documentary about its own bankruptcy
Why move your headquarters to one of the most expensive cities in the world?😮
They wanted to get on world stage. Source + more: www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/U15V3khP8v
Network. It wasn't as easy to bootstrap remotely 20 years ago.
@@bubediscussno one cam hear to say bootstrap any more. Lose it from your lexicon you send like a retard
Hubris.
@@Explorist They wanted to move to a woke city so all the woke idiots could do nothing but cheap woke news that why paying viewers quit it the woke mob are not customers they just demand stuff for free.
no mention of the lack of credibility on their reports and documentaries
This cannot be stressed enough.
Vice: the dark side of Vice
Now you know the difference between 'valuation' and value. Valuation is not money in the bank - it's speculation. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you know the difference. Valuation exists in the imagination. Value is 'I can buy stuff with it.' Once Vice got noticed by the Big Boys, its value and valuation diverged in almost opposite directions.
Gamblers run the world.
Truth social is another perfect example
@@AdamOBrien29 i dont know that anyone is giving it that big of valuation.
A German economist once told me: "When the value of something no longer bears any relation to the cost, a correction will eventually take place". This is true for many unprofitable companies that are over valued today. Only a question of time.
This has & will remain untrue for almost all major tech companies of the past two decades (amongst other historical investment examples) yet I agree with the sentiment. As with anything, knowing when & where to implement this outlook is everything. Cheers
Tesla sweating nervously
@@downeydarko That is true but only for a handful of dominant tech players, like Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, Google etc. but there is vast list if failures in tech and more to come. It is not about tech per se, it is whether the business model works and the fundamentals are there. Let's see what happens to TESLA in the next 2 years.
Truth Social?
@@raykleiner3151 People have been saying that about TESLA since inception. Shorting Elon in general is unwise given the unwavering support his base has in him. I’m not a fundamentals person but current P/E is 45 compared to 75 two years ago. Some of the companies you mentioned operated at 10x this ratio for decades before profitability.
This video should be 1 minute long. They went woke, went broke. That's all there is to it...
Damn you sound ignorant when saying this 😂
He's absolutely right. It's the reason i stopped following them. They tried to push agendas instead of bringing unbiased programming@@michaelshorts-if7es
Lol that one line is enough for people who have awareness
@@michaelshorts-if7esnot really… but you do sound ignorant
@@michaelshorts-if7es "here is why what breed of dog you choose proves your racist." Is this the kind of hard hitting journalism you want more of ? 😆🤣
The irony that a video about the fall of "Vice" sounds like a "Watch Mojo" video.
Watch Mojo? Now there's a successful media operation. Light and fast on its feet. And profitable.
I thought the narrator was reminiscent of the old 90's A&E documentaries
Makes me think of that Food Network show about how various packaged snacks were made lol.
Unwrapped
Used to love Vice when they done mini-documentaries about things like drugs. Once they went political, I dipped.
100%. They had top notch stuff. Now it's 4 words: get woke go broke. I dance on their grave.
Yuck. Republicans are brain dead
They were always political, you just weren't paying attention.
@@Charles-yq8vv If they've always been political, if you had to pay close attention to notice, then they weren't that political.
In my opinion, in the beginning, their only concern was _"is this something that _*_WE_*_ would love to watch?"_ but at some point, it became _"Will Disney like this? Will this group of people like it? Is this too offensive to that group of people?"_ etc... and by trying to please everyone, they lost a huge part of their audience.
@@Sadlander2 I mean, they definitely alienated a part of their original audience, which skewed very strongly "dudes who take mushrooms and listen to noise music," but ultimately they wanted to be much bigger and flew too close to the sun. It didn't work out, because they poorly managed the company and spent too much money, not because they went "woke," whatever the fuck that means.
They stopped listening to their employees and strated listening to the money - but Vice's readers know better.
Long story short: worked for VICE France and Canada. We just had the same sick ideas that we had in the begining - then it began scaring the shareholders and advertisers that we strated relying on too much. They laid off most of my friends and kept hiring famous old assholes that ruined everything.
I used to REALLY respect this "network". Then, about 4-5 years ago, I noticed they went from doing truthful news, to having an agenda. It started small, but I saw the telltale signs. It didnt seem to me that the coming agenda was in-line with the spirit of what they started with. I was disappointed, and will admit a little angry and heart broken. Seeing this, 🤷♂️ doesn't surprise me, and it's really too bad. We should mourn these things; each and every independent news outlet that goes this way; is a detriment to us, not a help.
Have you considered watching Fox, RSBN, infowars or OAN? Definitely no agenda with them.
Same. I had the app, having not looked at it for awhile (looking for a news source) I seen a few articles saying to myself, why did I download this agenda propaganda garbage? Deleted the app immediately. Seems like they turned on their readers which put them on the map. I can think of a few other brands that did the same
basically when they pushed Gavin out and gave in to the pc mob they started to suck.
Went P C woke and pro Vax and climate change BS hoaxes
Having an editor to screen out made-up sh!t isn't propaganda. Real medias can't ignore mis-reporting like (not) independent podcasters
In my opinion vice media had the best form of journalism. They really dug deep and spoke truth about controversial topics and weren’t afraid to go the extra mile with their interviews. I miss the old vice energy. Bring it back!!
They really should've stayed apolitical. Good journalism is open and honest content not pandering and ideological
It's never coming back. Soros owns it now. It's become an empty propaganda arm.
Isobel Yeung leaving them defined their death. She was fearless guys. She was absolutely the real deal in Journalism. I remember her reporting on the Syrian Civil War, it was insane.
Where is she now?
The embedded work in Syria was next level.
@@idaMShamen google it.
Most probably CNN
They used to do journalism, then the started doing opinion pieces, now its clickbait. Recent years have also had an incredibly predictable lean to sides.
Disney trying to buy Vice was the final nail in the Coffin.
They still own a big chunk, that's how they pushed the Elaine Bredehoft "interview " debacle.
@@fartnloud7411 And that's why it sucked.
@user-uw1er9fg7p I haven't watched it, just disgusting after her press tour and milking her 15min.
Their documentaries on north korea and cannibal warlords are legendary. I used to love Vice. Now they are just like everyone else.
God vice used to be so awesome, some of their documentaries were just absolutely amazing, particularly the vice guide to... Series, the Liberia one was especially awesome.
It’s really sad because Vice was so dope! I remember wanting to intern for them back in college. Cutting edge and raw journalism.
Without vice where will I learn about a new club drug that's popular in Finland called shart
How do you not even mention that VICE magazine was FREE? That 100% helped get them to be such a player, and a hit with Millennials.
Was not free
@@Hanswurst90000 uh it absolutely was free. I used to pick it up all the time. If you need further proof, look at 2:53 in the video. You can see the word FREE on the cover of the magazine on the top right. Maybe don't comment if you don't know what you're talking about?
@@weswhile maybe it depends on the country. Here it wasn't free.
Balls Deep was one of the most amazing journeys into parts of the world never seen before!
Also Simon Ostrovsky's reporting in the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was deserving of all the reporting awards!
Because people realised that their content is strickly directed into the left side. No pluralism. Suggestions and opinions instead of facts. Pozdrawiam wszystkich centrystów ❤
Go woke go broke :D I am so happy to hear this.
This was better than watching a recent VICE video.
Went from a Gen-X outfit to a Millennial outfit.
It skipped us Millennials and went straight to Gen Z
You must be a boomer then because I'm 36 holmes vice wasn't all that till 2012-2014
@@TyrantsAlwaysPerish
1) No I am not.
2) Your vaulted "wasn't all that" mile marker is irrelevant as I'm referring to the early ownership and age range of the primary staff, which did not consist of what would have been teenagers or younger if they were millennials.
That Gen Z dude not fucking millennials. You do understand that us millennials are in our mid to late 30s and 40 years old, right? We’re old ok. We’re not these dumb kids you’re talking about. Sound like a boomer. Fuck, all I hear is us getting blamed for everything. We can’t even afford to die leave us alone.
I.E. Common Sense to Woke Bitch
Please we like you. Get rid of the shitty music from beginning to end
AMEN! RUclipsrs need to cut the background music crap, it makes videos nearly unwatchable!
A wise man once said : "Go woke, Go broke"
Back in the day I loved their documentaries. Found them groundbreaking. Now it feels like everything they put out is this processed and calculated corporate crap with a highly predictable political stance. They take no risks now.
Using the word Vice and "JOURNALISM" in the same sentence is pure comedy. HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yes it does watch their early stuff halfwit
Then you never watched it in it's hey day
I remember watching a Vice mini doc about phentanyl crisis in USA. Its was hardcore and wild, really well made. Its crazy to see they going down
Nobody was better at documentaries than VICE was in their early days. I learned more about life watching their RUclips channel for 1 week then i did in high school
😂😂😂😂😂ok.
You learned about leftist life.
@@tradingmedic whenever I hear someone use the word leftist in a RUclips comment I know I’m about to read some of the dumbest shit possible
we got Arte in Europe Vice never even came close with their shitty doc's😂😂😂 hyped up trash media
You know absolutely nothing about documentaries then 😂
Go Woke, go broke. Falsely accusing men with sex assaults, etc. has its price.
Go woke go broke is SO true. We don’t want that crap here.
Goes to show you Go Woke, Go Broke.
They started created content catered to a small but vocal minority and stopped creating content and stories with broad appeal. If no one watches what you are creating, you eventually go out of business.
Ran out of investor money they never made money just stole it to pay others to do the wor for them.
Yeah sure, go woke go broke. Disney, Nike, and all the other companies who have hurt the feelings of butthurt trumpoids are doing better now than ever. So much for your idea.
I almost forgot Meta had influencers shilling products nonstop where you had 1000 different versions of the home shopping channel. While some were trying to start their own fashion and beauty brands, the vast majority were hyping up supplements and cryptocurrency. If only Vice had done a documentary on Meta...
They have the comments section turned off on their YT channel. They stopped listening to their real audience.
I'm sure Shane Smith walked away with the ability to retire comfortably.
Yep but his pet project bombed
Everybody says it pay yourself first
Vice did actual investigative journalism. It’s sad we won’t have access to those stories💔
A lot of the folks that cut their teeth at Vice ended up growing up and moving to real outlets like PBS. Journalism is really about the journalist doing the work and you should always follow them, instead of the outlet that gave them their initial break.
@@arizvisaNoone in usa is honest. You sound like a prime example saying Harvey Weinstins hollywood media is more legit Tha Weinstines cousin on Google an youtube. I hope you are under 18 or something saying any usa media is of any value or honesty
@@ShawnJonesHellion ?? How did you get any of what you're suggesting from my comment? Like, on a thread where the OP is referencing investigative journalism?
To reiterate, I pointed out that the journalists who grew up at Vice ended up switching to different outlets and suggested to follow the work of the individual journalist if interested. Nothing about Weinstein, nothing about Hollywood, nothing about YT, nothing about Google, nothing about general US media...
Pretty much the only things from ‘Vice’ I’ve enjoyed were the videos from a guy who was a former semi-pro or pro skateboarder who would go around America and film places that have fallen into decay like old shopping malls. They were pretty enjoyable to watch and were interesting as well.
There is a rhyme that explains what happened. If you pick one political side you lose the other. Now with only 50% of an audience. It doesn’t matter what side you pick you still lose.
So they went woke and broke?
That's not a rhyme...
It must've been that. Like, there's no market for woke media, because there's only a handful of woke people in America, right?
I interviewed with them 5-6 years ago and you could feel the arrogance of the edgy//hipster/bro-ey/Brooklyn/coolkidsclub interviewers in the air. They really thought they were the shit working for Vice Media. Funny thing is with my niche/technical role, they showed they had no clue what they were looking for and after receiving a "we went with another employee because you were not the right fit" generic email a month after the final interview, they seemingly lost track/forgot they had interviewed me and reached out again via email saying they think I may be great for the SAME ROLE less than six month later. Huge red flag and major turnoff.
Arrogant sums it up perfectly.
I heard that when VICE laid off the 150 employees, the employees protested….but only in relation to the 2 employees who were trans. That pretty much defines how woke they became.
VICE: From Biased to Bust! Good bye and hopefully Good Riddance! 😁
There’s only so many documentaries and essays about drug dealers you can be arsed to consume
They lost me when they went from being a rogue magazine that was free to bein a " media company" the magazine content went from being renegade indie journalism and punk diy aesthetics/culture/ethos to being kinda on the cringe end of the hipster pop culture spectrum. Which is only natural given how the internet and mobile web exploded mid to late 00s. I think that as they grew, they should have remained organic and independent. Whenever u accept money from investors, regardless of what you agreed to you are taking on interests and obligations of that moneys source. It was all good until it wasnt. You dont become something else overnight. You slowly change untill you realize suddenly that corruption has set into what you built and you already built up on top of the corruption and are unable to remove it. Its nobody's fault, noone specifically at least its more a cautionary tale of what to beware when growing up as an organization
It was amazing at the jump. Then they went woke and sold out and became just many of the one-sided msm documentary channels.
Should have stayed true to what made them successful.
Newspapers are going bust at a rate of 2 per week in the US.. a trend that began in the 1990s. It is no surprise that nobody wants to pay for the news.. but like everything, you generally get what you pay for.. and we need good news reporting if democracy is to function.
I loved to watch VICE when I lived in NYC 2005 - 2009
I'll put any money on it that Shane isn't broke.
It’s Embarrassing now especially when they did that sub culture in Mexico
From being independent to being under big corporations. Vice killed itself
Go woke, go broke! 😂
I knew it was over when they said a project I submitted was "too real" 😂
I miss the dos and don'ts 😢
woke killed it
gavin mcinnes is so woke lol. incel
"And that's what YOU know" 🤣
It was woke before woke.
Dark Side of the Ring is the only thing I still watch on Vice, it's actually pretty good
I think Shane, Sharoosh and the other dude wanted to chime in on the liberal youth but didn't realize how out of place they would be working with them...tell Jenny from sales an iffy joke at the water fountain and next thing you know she's having a meltdown in HR...
From: imaginary money/value To: REALITY
GO WOKE GO BROKE 😂😂😂😂
Showing Shane crying in your thumbnail is ridiculous. Vice may ultimately fail but if you think he'll walk away with anything other than tons of cash in the bank, you're nuts.
They spent a lot of time attacking "the man." Looking out for the worker class and calling out bad corporate behavior. Interesting how that works.
Even in a country where VICE is not present, I had such a high hopes for VICE. It’s sad indeed.
They became agenda driven instead of independent. Also expanded too fast without proper vesting of funds
Me too = Money grab
5.7 Billion?! Dang...
I'm gonna sub, liked this video of yours 👍
"Its New York, you got hustled"
-Gavin McInnes 2016
Damn I forgot about those guys.. they always had crazy videos lol
The long multi-episodic coverage of Russian invasion in 2014 of Ukraine was what put VICE on my radar. I've been a fan since then. And long after their demise ill watch their older content.
"russian roulette" That series sure made an impression on me.
@asmo1313 same here. I can't interpret Ru's war in Ukr in 2024 without thinking back on the RR series from VICE.
A wise man once said Everything woke goes to shit
A bunch of rocket chemists in the comment section:/
Chemists? lol
Put down the phone. Rocketman😂
Rockets aren't illegal
Nooo, I'm a rocket BIOLOGIST.🦃
Surgeons..... Rocket Surgeons