Setzer
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Too little, too late. The damage has already been done and they're not going to recover from it. She should have been fired the day after her rant and the video taken down from their channel.
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G4 experiencing massive layoffs
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Too little, too late. The damage has already been done and they're not going to recover from it. She should have been fired the day after her rant and the video taken down from their channel.
Thabass
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TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Plug? Butt plug?
Fattious Floyd
Neo Member
I remember the good old days when G4 just tried to make us laugh and get excited for upcoming video games. Ah those were the days eh?
DeepEnigma
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
AJUMP23
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Will Sessler quit in solidarity?
Timberwolf25
Member
Where them defenders at, that said the hosts and channels support her...lol
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Creating Twittard campaigns saying that it was somehow sexist or the like?
*Nightwing
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Timberwolf25
Member
Hey, I didn't survive. Let's play games yo
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TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Extra points if G4 goes on to hire like Mia Khalifa in her place.
Interfectum
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Goodness she was literally the same version of the edgy male gamers she vehemently spewed against. Cringy AF. All these ideological zombies do, is project their inner hate for themselves onto everyone else.
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Fattious Floyd
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MiguelItUp
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Let it be known, that if you ever survive a layoff at some point in your life and career, don't boast about it at work, or on social media. Lmao. Christ.
Fattious Floyd
Neo Member
Yeah she's definitely on the Spectrum.
Thabass
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I think he was on his way out regardless lol
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StreetsofBeige
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More amazingly is she's only 31 years old. By the time she's 40, it looks like she'll have no teeth left considering how bad they look. Doubt she brushes her teeth or goes to the dentist.
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
So they got rid of the racist (Black Hokage) and the dumb cunt (Frosk). Just get rid of Adam and focus on what made G4 great (hyping games, movies, tech, shows) and we may have something. But considering most shows/movies are absolute trash these days with the same mental retardation as Frosk/Sess, I don’t think that is even possible.
Pejo
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BigAssBoy
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Thank God, if Sessler goes too I may give them another chance.
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Dr. Samuel Hayden
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Karma is a beautiful thing.
Sleepwalker
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Wish the two NPCs that were defending her behavior weren't reply banned
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Nah, good riddance. Their white knighting was so damn cringe.
ManaByte
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Red Crayon Aristocrat
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Never expected them to fire her, I expected the whole thing to go kaput before that.
I mean think of how significant this is, could this be signaling a massive change in video game culture?
I mean think of how significant this is, could this be signaling a massive change in video game culture?
nush
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DeepEnigma
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TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Sexism in gaming >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Unemployment
AJUMP23
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I was laid off once and the HR people were crying because they had to tell us we were losing our jobs. I asked them why they were crying, they still had their jobs.
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AJUMP23
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MiguelItUp
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Oh dude, I've been there too, very awkward experience, lmao.
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In the end I suppose she wins in the short term - they had to buy out her contract so she gets a nice long paid vacation. She'll likely be accepted back in the eSports commentary scene she came from considering how gen z likes to embrace these abrasive types.
She never uttered in public or tweeted any words of encouragement or solidarity for those coworkers who were laid off, so there may have been some friction behind the scenes with her. A few notable producers and writers left G4 in July and August - could be those were the ones who supported her and allowed her to go on her bizarre rant in the first place?
G4 is an operation funded by Comcast. Business is business, and she isn't a big enough name to garner widespread sympathy, nor is she influential enough to crybully Comcast into keeping her.
As for a change in culture - all such sub cultures (such as gaming) have ebbs and flows, but I think what you're referring to has to do with those currently making games, and not those who play them. We may never again get AAA games as fearless in their humor and messaging as GTA for example. I mean look at Saints Row. In a single generation it went from a vulgarity and obscenity toilet-humor simulator, to a just barely edgy gen z vehicle (going from the hour-or-so worth of gameplay I watched).
She never uttered in public or tweeted any words of encouragement or solidarity for those coworkers who were laid off, so there may have been some friction behind the scenes with her. A few notable producers and writers left G4 in July and August - could be those were the ones who supported her and allowed her to go on her bizarre rant in the first place?
G4 is an operation funded by Comcast. Business is business, and she isn't a big enough name to garner widespread sympathy, nor is she influential enough to crybully Comcast into keeping her.
As for a change in culture - all such sub cultures (such as gaming) have ebbs and flows, but I think what you're referring to has to do with those currently making games, and not those who play them. We may never again get AAA games as fearless in their humor and messaging as GTA for example. I mean look at Saints Row. In a single generation it went from a vulgarity and obscenity toilet-humor simulator, to a just barely edgy gen z vehicle (going from the hour-or-so worth of gameplay I watched).
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balls of snow
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She gone.
Humdinger
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Hah, I'm surprised they let her go (companies virtue signal by retaining the "oppressed"), but I'm glad. She was obnoxious. A little schadenfraude for the morning. I'll have to catch some Youtube commentary about it. Should be entertaining.
G4 never had a chance. The only reason it succeeded, way back when, was because it was the only alternative. You want to watch a show about gaming? G4 was all there was. You had no choice.
Now, of course, there are thousands of Youtubers doing what G4 did -- doing it much better, putting out content for every possible gamer interest. You can't compete with that by having 200 salaries, plus benefits and overhead. All they had going for them was nostalgia, and they squandered that, too.
G4 never had a chance. The only reason it succeeded, way back when, was because it was the only alternative. You want to watch a show about gaming? G4 was all there was. You had no choice.
Now, of course, there are thousands of Youtubers doing what G4 did -- doing it much better, putting out content for every possible gamer interest. You can't compete with that by having 200 salaries, plus benefits and overhead. All they had going for them was nostalgia, and they squandered that, too.
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Banjo64
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We’ll never know if g4 would have succeeded without this Voldemort looking freak tanking it. All I know is that seeing her ranting and raving and saying ‘if you don’t like it fuck off’ was the easiest advice I’ve ever accepted in my life. Need to be careful who you employ folks as these nut cases can’t be controlled.
Timberwolf25
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G4TV failed/is failing because they forgot their core audience first. It's ok to want to expand that audience, as they should, but you don't do a reboot and succeed while totally alienating your original supporters.
As others have said, there is way too many other players now and lots more variety. So they needed to step it up and not dull it up. I'd argue that if they had hosts and skits like back in the glory days now, they would have had a chance to succeed. I know I'd be tuning in.
As others have said, there is way too many other players now and lots more variety. So they needed to step it up and not dull it up. I'd argue that if they had hosts and skits like back in the glory days now, they would have had a chance to succeed. I know I'd be tuning in.
DeepEnigma
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GymWolf
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Who the fuck want to sleep with that thing?
Banjo64
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