[Teutatis]

Cracked is garbage, I used to read it a lot as well, until 5 years ago or so I stopped it completely when they started spewing all the SJW/feminist trash all the time. Back then I didn't even know the word SJW existed but I knew how utterly stupid and annoying these people were.

[Hades]

I hope I don't get banned for this. Mike CF's twitter account is pretty inspiring in how well it trolls.

I have been taking the fight to Cracked for a few weeks now. Their articles suck so I'm going to make sure their comment sections suck too.

I click through any obvious SJW/globalist shit-posting articles, don't even read them, check out the top-voted comment to see what the flavor of the article is, and quick fire off a few comments that hopefully won't ping the NSA but will definitely trigger a few people.

As long as I announce my identity as a gay, Muslim, black, genderqueer, Marxist, transitioning, liberal, socialist, Jewish, Democrat, first-generation immigrant, progressive, feminist, anything "protected", I can say whatever the fuck I want and still get like 50-80% upvotes. I never bother fact-checking because stuff that's deliberately wrong drives them nuts.

Then the guys commenting negatively I can eviscerate with accusations of racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, genocide, Holocaust-denialism, etc. Here are a few samples of solid troll-bait.

comically offensive shitpostin Wrote:

"Western Europe will fall to the mighty sword of Sharia! Allah Akbar!"

"Have fun in the Sunset Empire. London belongs to everybody else but the Brits."

"I'm a proud gay Muslim and I'm voting Donald Trump. Only a big strong man who says it like it is can stop all these homicidal third-world camel jockeys from trying to throw me off a building. Bernie Sanders would probably give them all free shit and Hillary would just touch herself watching my gangland style execution, if Benghazi is any indication."

"As a Communist, I personally get offended at the mere mention of the Holocaust. The word itself is Yiddish which marginalizes the six million political dissidents, homosexuals, Gypsies, and Poles murdered alongside the Jews by the Nazis, or the half-million British, or the twenty-five million Russians. The word for what happened should be a term that's more culture-neutral and inclusive. Otherwise the stateless and victimized Roma will never get their own Israel."

[BortimusPrime]

You're best off just ignoring them and not going to their site. They're already dying from low traffic.

[ElFlaco]

DELETE
wrong thread

[Leonard D Neubache]

Quote:

Say Goodbye to CRACKED – another Social Justice website bites the dust

http://archive.is/Y85ZT

Quote:

Cracked has given the pink slip to most of its main contributors and senior editorial staff after a tumultuous run following its embrace of social justice politics.
If you grew up on the Internet, then there’s a pretty good chance you stumbled upon a Cracked listicle or two detailing something like the “insane fan theories about movies that make great movies better,” or “creepy urban legends that turned out to be true.”
It made for immersive reading and you came off feeling richer for the experience.
But as with all good things, the Cracked as everyone knew it came to an end when its editors found the warm embrace of progressive politics. The site’s full conversion into a platform for social justice happened at the height of GamerGate in 2014. It has since published at least a dozen articles on the topic, mostly to demonize gamers as “social outcasts” and push feminism as a solution to the problem of “toxic masculinity.”
GamerGate, a consumer-driven movement for ethics in games journalism, became a bogeyman for progressives, largely in part due to articles like those on Cracked.
In 2016, popular gaming YouTuber commentator Rags took Cracked apart after senior writer Josh Sargent condemned video games for depictions of violence.
The site’s progressive push wasn’t simply limited to its coverage of the video game industry. Much of the site’s content revolves around feminism, and even slips into its videos, which are more tedious and even less funny to watch than a John Oliver lecture.



On Tuesday, long-time editors and contributors to Cracked were informed that they no longer had a job.

So I need a job now, if anyone needs a writer / editor / on-air personality.
— Tom Reimann (@startthemachine) December 4, 2017

After seven years I'm a freelance writer again. Proud of all my work at Cracked and excited for my future. See you guys in some new capacity soon.
— Josh Sargent (@JFSargent) December 4, 2017

I am officially looking for writing and/or editing work. If anyone has any leads or openings, please feel free to pass them along.
— John Cheese (@johncheese) December 4, 2017

I no longer work for https://t.co/9BuaeS4Te9.
— Daniel O'Brien (@DOB_INC) December 5, 2017

Turns out this is the last video I wrote/ will write for Cracked. Thank you to everyone for everything over the years ❤️! Watch it if you want – or don’t! What do i care ? (https://t.co/NEvP4HOCp6
— Katy Stoll (@katystoll) December 5, 2017


The site’s executive editor Jason Pargin, better known under his Chinese alias “David Wong,” who claimed on Twitter that the site is “still alive.”

Cracked is still alive and I still work there and my plan is to keep publishing good things until the sun swallows the earth. But yeah there are some amazing people out there looking for work.

It goes without saying that given the loss of Cracked’s main contributors, it remains to be seen for how long the site will continue to exist.

[questor70]

One thing that side by side photo proves is that there is a sense by some in business that SJW is a demographic "brand" that can be exploited. I think this also explains the degree of SJW you see in media in general, like Star Wars, etc... It's not that the people producing this content really believe in this ideology as much as they are serving up what they feel people want to hear in a crass commercial way. But there's simply no way Cracked can produce content like it does now, so brazen and monolithic, unless there is a specific edict from on high to only beat the SJW drum in the mistaken belief that it pays to do so.

[Praetor Lupus]

I had some good laughs from Cracked, but the slide into SJW-ism turned me right off the site.

[Kurgan]

(12-06-2017 07:48 PM)Praetor Lupus Wrote:  

I had some good laughs from Cracked, but the slide into SJW-ism turned me right off the site.

That and jumping on the "Trump = Hitler" bandwagon they jumped on made me stop reading them. They had some funny stuff on weird things.

[Razgriz]

I loved watching "After Hours" but when they decided to redo it with 3 minority women and a soy boy instead of the original group I left.

[kuros]

(03-04-2016 01:42 AM)Hades Wrote:  

As long as I announce my identity as a gay, Muslim, black, genderqueer, Marxist, transitioning, liberal, socialist, Jewish, Democrat, first-generation immigrant, progressive, feminist, anything "protected", I can say whatever the fuck I want and still get like 50-80% upvotes. I never bother fact-checking because stuff that's deliberately wrong drives them nuts.

Then the guys commenting negatively I can eviscerate with accusations of racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, genocide, Holocaust-denialism, etc. Here are a few samples of solid troll-bait.

That is an interesting position and angle

[RoastBeefCurtains4Me]

(12-08-2017 02:55 PM)kuros Wrote:  

(03-04-2016 01:42 AM)Hades Wrote:  

As long as I announce my identity as a gay, Muslim, black, genderqueer, Marxist, transitioning, liberal, socialist, Jewish, Democrat, first-generation immigrant, progressive, feminist, anything "protected", I can say whatever the fuck I want and still get like 50-80% upvotes. I never bother fact-checking because stuff that's deliberately wrong drives them nuts.

Then the guys commenting negatively I can eviscerate with accusations of racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, genocide, Holocaust-denialism, etc. Here are a few samples of solid troll-bait.

That is an interesting position and angle

I wonder what happened to Hades? He had some serious mental health issues and started posting increasingly bizarre stuff on the forum, until he got banned, but I liked a lot of what he posted, and hope he was able to get some treatment. I know some forum members met him IRL, or possibly know him from outside of the forum.

Any news?