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Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return (aftermath.site)
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[โ€“] Odo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are you sure about Giant Bomb? AFAIK Jess, Jason, and Bailey were all laid off by Fandom. The GB crew even spoke about being caught off-guard both times, and how bad they thought those layoff decisions were.

[โ€“] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

and Fandom owns and is Giant Bomb.

So yes. Giant Bomb laid off two staff and replaced them with contractors.

The various editors at the blog sites generally don't want to do mass layoffs either. But the end result is the same. People lose their jobs so someone can get paid much less and have no benefits do that job instead.