What happened to the AV Club?

[Rman]

Remember this site? This was the go-to site for TV and Movie nerds in the mid to late 2000s. But then people just stopped caring about it. Did Twitter kill it? Has the era of the "Hot Take" made longer form criticism obsolete?

[Himu]

I still go

[EchoRin]

The site got a redisign for the tablet/phone era and that kinda killed it for me. I think that happened to all the sites under that parent company, no?

[Tripon]

The Onion (and AV Club) sold itself to Univision. Univision bought Gawker after it imploded and merged them the two together. Univision made The Onion and AV Club use the Kinja software that Gawker is known for, renamed the company GMG (Gizmodo Media Group) or something, and then Univision sold the entire thing with The Onion and AV Club to a Private Equity firm, Great Hill Partners and renamed it G/O Media.

So basically, they got fucked over.

[Tripon]

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[Trent Dole]

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Those guys (and gals and inbetweens and neithers ) fucking rule, but they don't do reviews and interviews.
Pitchfork kind of sucks now (er, more than they used too?) and apparently also were sold off fairly recently. Don't really have a trustworthy review place anymore and mainly hear about worthwhile stuffs from viewers like you.

[benjipwns]

I slowly stopped going when I kept realizing the reviewers weren't actually watching the shows. And then eventually I realized their entire setup was not helping me learn anything if I wasn't already watching the shows regularly anyway.

And also there was stuff like how they were deliberately assigning people who disliked shows to ensure the reviews were "more objective" (WHY IS EVERY EPISODE RATED B to A?!? THAT'S NOT OBJECTIVE! MORE C'S!) to where one reviewer quit because they couldn't get assigned anything they actually wanted to watch and people were begging them to replace the regular reviewer on some show with them as the regular reviewer would drop their review complaining about the show and that's it while this other writer spent time in the comments arguing with everyone and discussing the show.

edit: That also led to a bunch of shows constantly being reviewed against "what they could be/all of TV" rather than against the show itself, so even the ratings were useless since these shows were like onto season three or four at this point. Also they stopped doing season reviews for everything not super popular as if episode reviews are useful outside of looking at the bulk of them to see if the season sucks or not.