Yeah that was a pretty obvious "tell" But then again she like the worthless consultants do you work that is so obvious and stupid it's impossible to miss.
call kotaku acting like an employer potentially hiring her and see if they praise her or say they would not rehire. jobs can't legally say more than they would not rehire if they would say anything negative
Honestly folks, we're living through what is one the most historically significant moments of Human existence. It took them 10 years to get to this point and it's all unraveled in the span of 24 hours. This is an unprecedented cultural shift and I'm so happy to see it.
So far it's been everything I could have hoped for. The next few months should be very interesting. The holidays are certainly going to be interesting for a lot of people. The coping and seething is absolutely incredible. have not a single bit of sympathy for them. I'm sick of this crap. Let it begin.
Nah, because that means it's going to swing back their way again at some point. I think of them more like ugly snowmen, melted forever after their brief period of good weather for them.
@disalazarg would what...get fired. It's not surprising at all the whole website has been a financial failure for years. It's only a matter of time before we got the announcement we have been waiting years to hear.
They are paid by companies pushing inclusivity for checking boxes,A lot of game firms are also this way now,Which is why the passion for gaming is at the bottom of the list hence why they don’t seem to care and gaslight players.
Last time i read an article of theirs was in 2011 i think, nobody i know has read anything if theirs in a long time, not even people from different discords im in, the best advertisement for gamers was, is, and will be, word of mouth
Kotaku's bad decision was: that they hired you, the number didn't pan out - you didn't do your bit to increase your readership (your job) - now you've been fired. Is anyone, except you, surprised? NO!!! To quote another user's comment: "the world is healing".
🚩It's still hard to believe that that is what she was actually doing before her failure at Kotaku. It's also hard to believe that she was making _any_ money for it.
I know exactly which one you're talking about, because it was the moment I realized Kotaku stopped being a gaming news outlets and was a feminazi propaganda machine. It was the infamous "How Diablo 3 told me my marriage was over" article. It was written by some moron who cheated on her husband so he let her character in Diablo 3 die or something stupid and it was just a bunch of Feminist nonsense about how she was a victim. It was a ground zero point for a lot of this crap
I can't wait to hear collections of her various thoughts on social media as the reality hits her like a ton of bricks. The schadenfreude with watching all this crumble is so fantastic. Not one of these people deserves any pity nor will they get any.
She is welcomed with open arm at SBI man. The DIE hiring there is strong. Btw DEI = Definite Exclusive Incels where no straight or male or white are hired.
I'm sorry, I've been a gamer for the last 42 years. Kotaku has never been relevant. Who gives a shit about these morons. Buy good games, support good devs and enjoy gaming... ignore these people.
"Moriendum esse"- Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus during sack of Perusia. Just remember to vote with your wallet. That madness 'll ends soon, have hope.
My brother in Christ have you not seen all the consecutive wins we got in 2024? With the miserable failures of Dustbin, Cumcord, SW Rejects and recently Failguard firing that... thing... is like probably Win #42 for 2024.
Ron DeSantis was already fighting it first in FL, but many aspects of it are already illegal. The problem is how to stop ESG scores and the selective lending based around them.
I am so glad I am such a son of a gun supporting JT and all other grifters, Endy, Yello, Hypnotic etc etc etc - hope You guys get the GrifterOTY award this year ! 😁😁😁
Unless mercante announced the great job she has lined up she was fired. Poor lady. I guess they stacked the whole place with so many new people that they were no longer diverse
"Exactly 2 years" means it was time to renew her contract and they said "Nope". And yes, the decision had been made beforehand, they had already decided that as soon as her contract was off she was gone. Alyssa had no input in it, but she is correct with the timeframe
When I got laid off from my job, due to the pandemic, my boss got teary eyed and I had to tell her it was okay because I saw this coming. The only tears I see shed here are tears of laughter.
I think AM’s legal letters to you JT going public had something which made G/O Media’s decision to let her go soooo much easier! Hope she disappears now.
Fitting choice of words in the thumbnail there ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Edit: Y'know what I think? I think G/O media is either shutting down completely or getting acquired. What with the Deadspin lawsuit they've been losing hard.
Like locusts, they will go underground, and reemerge calling themselves something different. Games suck right now. We don't need DEI, we need better games!
Now this is the kind of transitioning I want to see more of, from employed to unemployed. And identifying as was/were. I truly from the bottom of my heart do not feel hatred of any kind to the vast majority of people out there just living their lives but the people running industries and running them into the ground, no. The activists who have been strong arming everything/everyone and everything they touch being ruined. I'm sorry for those that may get pushed into the pile that's not my intention or my hope but unfortunately some most likely will and they have my condolences.
Back in the late 2000's I used to go to Kotaku every day to see the latest in gaming news. Over time though I stopped going to the site entirely since it became nothing but articles about bitching instead of gaming news. Haven't looked back since.
"also kiss my ass" in mercante's tweet, she was fired for sure.
Yeah that was a pretty obvious "tell"
But then again she like the worthless consultants do you work that is so obvious and stupid it's impossible to miss.
Subtlety is not her forte for sure
“also, fight me”
call kotaku acting like an employer potentially hiring her and see if they praise her or say they would not rehire. jobs can't legally say more than they would not rehire if they would say anything negative
Ofc she was, in the same day she just decided.... 😂😂😂
the world is healing
Not yet
Kotaku banned me in 2008. I simply never returned there
If not, at least America.
Let's Hope
Yes it is
kotaku : you're fired
Allysa : You dont need to fire me, because i quit.
read that in the voice of Heloise
Trump: you're fired
Kamala :you don't need to fire me ,I never stood a chance anyway.
Sounds about right. XD
Since she was a Senior Editor, for all we know she could've heard of it coming, and submitted her resignation before it hit.
She probably did hear about the layoffs and jumped ship to save them the trouble.
she pulled a reverse Obi Wan.
Her ass got fired
Of course she was, much like Taylor Lorenz didn't voluntarily leave the WaPo in order to write substack articles.
For sure but she wants to pretend she choose this.
Ofc it's very obvious
She's for the streets
Today is not the day Kotaku 'began to fail.'
Today is the day Kotaku could no longer avoid or ignore its long term failure.
true
Yes correct
I hope they recover, we need real games journalists
No, they don't deserve to recover. They can never be trusted again .
They went woke, and fully deserve to go broke.
No second chances, ever.
Honestly folks, we're living through what is one the most historically significant moments of Human existence. It took them 10 years to get to this point and it's all unraveled in the span of 24 hours. This is an unprecedented cultural shift and I'm so happy to see it.
So far it's been everything I could have hoped for. The next few months should be very interesting. The holidays are certainly going to be interesting for a lot of people. The coping and seething is absolutely incredible. have not a single bit of sympathy for them. I'm sick of this crap. Let it begin.
It's ridiculous that it took this long, but as long as it's gone we're improving
Crap talking your owners publicly should be instant grounds for losing your job.
it is
Well they already lost the jobs…
What do you mean by "your owners"
This is a bad take tbh
The pendulum swings
Like a sledgehammer, and I am loving it.
@@daviddesrosiers1946 me to, it feels like a culture shift away from left wing socialism, now the hard working Americans have a voice.
It has to swing way harder than we think. Do not let up.
I'd love to think so but between demographics changes and the leftist infiltration of all our institutions, I'm not optimistic
Nah, because that means it's going to swing back their way again at some point.
I think of them more like ugly snowmen, melted forever after their brief period of good weather for them.
Next will be the down fall of IGN!
We can only hope and pray! IGN has been horrible for over a decade and they need to go buh-bye!
I don't think IGN is going anywhere any time soon.
@@sonicsnake44did you think Mercante would? I sure didn't.
Contact IGN sponsors 😏
@disalazarg
would what...get fired. It's not surprising at all the whole website has been a financial failure for years. It's only a matter of time before we got the announcement we have been waiting years to hear.
I blocked them years ago. I didn’t announce it, I just was tired of seeing anything about their nonsense.
To hell with ‘em.
Exactly
Same here. How has it taken a decade for this bollocks to stop recieving investment. It's mind boggling.
@@kenricnarbrough8191 _"It's not about money. It's about sending a message."_
I don't understand how this business is turning any profit at all. Who the hell is actually clicking on any of their articles?
They are paid by companies pushing inclusivity for checking boxes,A lot of game firms are also this way now,Which is why the passion for gaming is at the bottom of the list hence why they don’t seem to care and gaslight players.
easier to make money from company paying you to write article instead of making content humans can read.
I actively ignore clicking on anything from them, IGN and Wired
Aside from youtubers making content off their useless azzes? Nobody.
Last time i read an article of theirs was in 2011 i think, nobody i know has read anything if theirs in a long time, not even people from different discords im in, the best advertisement for gamers was, is, and will be, word of mouth
Both SBI, Kim Belair, David Bedard, BlackRock, Vanguard, Alyssa Mercante and those illiterate clowns are so going down
I'm not if BlackRock will go down. They are just too powerful.
@Nicky2414 No one asked for your opinion
Hopefully, next year. This year has been pretty nuts. Grab your snacks, ladies and gentlemen.
Clarkson: "OH NO! Anyway..."
Now they identify as "unemployed".
The full title is unemployed/unemployable.
Kotaku's bad decision was: that they hired you, the number didn't pan out - you didn't do your bit to increase your readership (your job) - now you've been fired. Is anyone, except you, surprised? NO!!! To quote another user's comment: "the world is healing".
I was once fired due to showing someone a Kotaku article and making fun of it.
The world is healing.
I just learned Alyssa Mercante is only 5'2. How can so much evil fit in such a tiny package? 😂
you can see it bulging out everywhere.
@@MechaFenrisbwahahaha! So true!
Me lookin at Chihuahua:
People stuffed her full of it before she switched careers to become a writer.
Napoleon complex.
Make Gaming Great Again...
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Wow, this Nov is the gift that's keeps giving 😂😅
"I don't like what the parent cooperation is doing!!" But continued to work for them for years right up till "they" were fired. What a hypocrite!!!
They have no tangible skills that allows them to work anywhere else.
And the crowd goes WILD!
This week has been pretty based.
Very based.
Their tears are so delicious.
This year has been legendary, been waiting for this for a decade now.
And there was much rejoicing.
Hahaha "left on her own" that is too funny and absolutely zero people will believe that
Please, I can't handle any more good news this week.
Just kidding, keep the W's coming!!!
The Emperor deleting all rainbows 😎
Don't worry guys: Alyssa will still "entertain" her loyal fans on OF. Stay tuned!
Shes absolutely morally bankrupt enough to do it
🚩It's still hard to believe that that is what she was actually doing before her failure at Kotaku.
It's also hard to believe that she was making _any_ money for it.
@@greenleifSome men are apparently so down bad they’re subterranean 😅
Eww
My soul just puked.
Masochists: you don't have to pay money to get to suffer.
I remember back in like 2012 my friend's older brother showed me a kotaku article (I forget the topic) but even back then they seemed to be full of bs
I know exactly which one you're talking about, because it was the moment I realized Kotaku stopped being a gaming news outlets and was a feminazi propaganda machine.
It was the infamous "How Diablo 3 told me my marriage was over" article.
It was written by some moron who cheated on her husband so he let her character in Diablo 3 die or something stupid and it was just a bunch of Feminist nonsense about how she was a victim.
It was a ground zero point for a lot of this crap
I would have no idea who the people behind Kotaku ever were if not for channels like these.
It's like it's already Christmas !!🎄🎁❤🎉😂
Two weeks tops until she begs for employment
I can't wait to hear collections of her various thoughts on social media as the reality hits her like a ton of bricks.
The schadenfreude with watching all this crumble is so fantastic.
Not one of these people deserves any pity nor will they get any.
She is welcomed with open arm at SBI man. The DIE hiring there is strong. Btw DEI = Definite Exclusive Incels where no straight or male or white are hired.
lets hope she finds a warm street corner !=]
The corners are always free at night
She's already begging for consultancy work and started streaming more on twitch
"Mercante, you're fired."
~ Big T
As if people have taken them seriously in the past 5 years
I wouldn’t have known about Smash Jt without Kotaku and Mercante.
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions
You know she got fired thats why she followed up with "kiss my ass"
I'm sorry, I've been a gamer for the last 42 years. Kotaku has never been relevant. Who gives a shit about these morons. Buy good games, support good devs and enjoy gaming... ignore these people.
22 years..agreed
Unfortunately too many people take metacritic and GOTY seriously
She better be good at giving out "jobblows" if she wants to survive!
This is definitely one of those "you can quit or we will fire you" moments.
Trying to play it off like they had a choice really isn't fooling anyone.
This must feel so good. Vindication my guy.
Alyssa Mercante should've been arrested, handcuffed, off to jail and throw away the key
Jail? Nah.
Mental asylum? Definitely.
No to all above. One way ticket to North Korea.
In Arkham Aslume? With Man and Jonkler?
"Moriendum esse"- Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus during sack of Perusia.
Just remember to vote with your wallet. That madness 'll ends soon, have hope.
Alyssa already has her Bowser costume ready for her and Kim's new digital business enterprise.
First W: President Trump wins a 2nd presidential term
Second W: Kotaku staff getting fired for good reason
sir please, i can't take this much WINNING all at once...
Nothing is coincident
My brother in Christ have you not seen all the consecutive wins we got in 2024?
With the miserable failures of Dustbin, Cumcord, SW Rejects and recently Failguard firing that... thing... is like probably Win #42 for 2024.
GOOD. And hopefully, IGN is next.
these urnualists need to learn to code or mine coal or something
Kotaku, Nov. 7th, 2024: The beginning of the end.
Elon and Ron Paul will ensure no money for Canadian propagandists in games. That's waste and Elon is a gamer.
Sucks to be woke.
They are steeling my mony. I live in Quebec, Chinada
Lol san whatever has no involvement
Not a big fan of Elon, but I wish he'd start many games studios, where pandering and woke employee culture wouldn't be tolerated.
I want Trump to make an executive order to ban DEI especially in the game industry
Ron DeSantis was already fighting it first in FL, but many aspects of it are already illegal.
The problem is how to stop ESG scores and the selective lending based around them.
They eat their own
Even in the end, they CAN'T even report it ACCURATELY!
I see what you did there in the thumbnail with the little gremlin in the background 😂
Just remember Petit is part of the management even if he tries to pretend he's not.
Smash called a man a man. A radical extremist in 2024. Lol
Didn't realize Carolyn snaked her way over to Kotaku after that GTAV review. Not a GameSpot fan but props to them for the walking papers
This is funny as all hell. Still don't give a fook to their plight.
The speed at which the pendulum is swinging back is astounding
I got sick of them in the Schrier/Hernendes days. I dont even know who any of these people are thankfully.
and yet...Kotaku is STILL FRIGGIN HERE.
Wild thumbnail phrasing.
Psychopaths do have a hard time keeping jobs, though.
I see what you did with the thumbnail lol
Things are swinging back to the other side. It went extremely far left and now it’s starting to swing far right. And around and around we go
2010 to 2012 i couldn't get enough of Kotaku. Now, good riddance, it's unrecognizable.
It started to fail long ago. It's just that Kotaku is admitting it now.
I'm glad Woketaku is finally collapsing. Less articles about the "patriarchy" and "white male gamers" bad.
Carolyn has a five o'clock shadow.
The last vid I questioned how Kotaku was still around, I take that back now, its begun.
I am so glad I am such a son of a gun supporting JT and all other grifters, Endy, Yello, Hypnotic etc etc etc - hope You guys get the GrifterOTY award this year ! 😁😁😁
Unless mercante announced the great job she has lined up she was fired. Poor lady. I guess they stacked the whole place with so many new people that they were no longer diverse
What an amazing year for humanity. Woke has taken L after L after L.
"GO Media is out of touch with gamers!"
---head of Kotaku.
.... I can't even..... someone else take this one.
Foly Huck! That title on that thumbnail is crazy.
The next 4 years are going to be GLORIOUS.
is this the return of meritocracy?
You stay Smashing!!!!!!!!!!
kotaku still exist - the real crime here
"Exactly 2 years" means it was time to renew her contract and they said "Nope". And yes, the decision had been made beforehand, they had already decided that as soon as her contract was off she was gone. Alyssa had no input in it, but she is correct with the timeframe
WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL ARE THOSE THINGS SITTING AT THE TABLE?????
2:07 "I have a BRIDGE to sell you" might be a memetic phrase to keep in your back pocket. Seems like a useful one for what's coming.
When I got laid off from my job, due to the pandemic, my boss got teary eyed and I had to tell her it was okay because I saw this coming. The only tears I see shed here are tears of laughter.
it could not happen to a nicer company
oh these weirdos got laid off? nothing of value was lost
I think AM’s legal letters to you JT going public had something which made G/O Media’s decision to let her go soooo much easier! Hope she disappears now.
Fitting choice of words in the thumbnail there ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Edit: Y'know what I think? I think G/O media is either shutting down completely or getting acquired. What with the Deadspin lawsuit they've been losing hard.
I'm interested in that bridge. I need a new road crossing for the salt river.
Like locusts, they will go underground, and reemerge calling themselves something different. Games suck right now. We don't need DEI, we need better games!
This is an example of what will happen when you starve your enemies from its resources that it will be left with nothing to eat aside from itself.
Reverse those words in the thumbnail and it's a hint to her new job 😂
It's almost like the money got cut off
You love to see it.
Now this is the kind of transitioning I want to see more of, from employed to unemployed. And identifying as was/were. I truly from the bottom of my heart do not feel hatred of any kind to the vast majority of people out there just living their lives but the people running industries and running them into the ground, no.
The activists who have been strong arming everything/everyone and everything they touch being ruined.
I'm sorry for those that may get pushed into the pile that's not my intention or my hope but unfortunately some most likely will and they have my condolences.
Blizzard will probably hire her and give her complete creative control of Warcraft 4.
Man, I'm not a lotto player, but I'm feeling like it's the last ticket to check off the box this week. Happy days, happy days!
I read the thumbnail title from bottom to top, as that’s how DEI works LOL.
Kotaku is healing
That jingle at the end is so bad it's good.
Back in the late 2000's I used to go to Kotaku every day to see the latest in gaming news. Over time though I stopped going to the site entirely since it became nothing but articles about bitching instead of gaming news. Haven't looked back since.
Aaaaargh my brain keeps mixing the words in the miniature! 😵💫
She was fired and allowed to 'move on gracefully' because they didn't want us to see it as a W
Is this a dream? It looks like we're going into the right timeline once again.
"I've got a bridge to sell you". I love that phrase :D
The layoffs will continue until morale improves
why would they fire their best journalist lmao