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IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell (aftermath.site)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Welp, this didn't take long.

It's especially interesting that they laid off a lot of people who were the only ones in their particular job, leaving entire jobs uncovered. I suspect this comes right before shutting them entirely or doing it all "with AI" 🤮.

Sad in particular about Alice Bell. She was fantastic, and it always felt like she kept the site going through all the shit of recent years. Plus being the driving force behind their podcast (the Electronic Wireless Show) of course also spells doom for that one though I hope that like Indiescovery they go rogue and run it independent of the site.

Bleak times. Fuck IGN.

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[–] [email protected] 228 points 4 months ago (13 children)

I hate how this is phrased as "redundancies". IGN literally JUST bought these outlets, they haven't had time to dig into and examine the organizations they acquired; it's just straight into the Corpo playbook of "lay people off and let the dust settle where it may".

These are people, not "redundancies". They contributed in the old organization, and they could contribute in the new, but they never even got the chance.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oh they're redundancies to IGN alright, they literally bought their competitors and got to kill competition with zero resistance

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There used to be laws against this shit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

people also used to vote in their own interests

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