Valens said on her stream that she was paid $30 an article; a contributor to the previous iteration of Waypoint, Nick Capozzoli, said rates used to be at least $300.
Holy shit.
I've dabbled a bit in writing tech articles. I was published in a print magazine >20 years ago, and I think I got around $300 for it. More recently, a few articles I did for a niche tech website went for $100 each.
$30/article? For a site that has Vice behind it? Yeah, pretty easy to walk away from that money.
Vice really is garbage.
Good on nu-Waypoint but I do want to make it clear:
This is not the Waypoint that made a name for social justice oriented reporting and leftist gaming content. They all got fired/driven out over the years. Austin Walker has nine million side hustles but is mostly over at Friends at the Table, Natalie Watson has a fucking BAFTA as part of Half Mermaid, and Rob/Chia/Patrick are now Remap. And the rest of the crew have also moved on.
This is the Waypoint that Vice created because they decided they wanted to have a gaming outlet again after firing old Waypoint. And mad props to Valens et al for standing up for THEIR writing but... big ol' asterisk.
Lemme take a guess here: mgmt are going this start complaining that human written articles are dropping off in quality so they will need to focus more on AIGen content.
I have very little respect for Valens' writing after seeing articles spreading lies and essentially striking out at a vtuber company for being rejected by them. Vice is crap, but Valens is no better.
I'll post my comment from another thread on the same subject: I have very little respect for Valens' writing after seeing articles spreading lies and essentially striking out at a vtuber company for being rejected by them. Vice is crap, but Valens is no better.
Hmm, some of those titles are suspicious because yes perverted nerds do cause some of society's problems as we learned from the whole incel movement, and there are studies showing some types of porn lowers empathy etc for others.
Oh it's a TERF Activist group lying and claiming the games in question were CSAM despite Valve already have policies against depicting even fictional underage individuals in sexual situations.
And they apparently want to continue the crusade until ALL NSFW content is banned from Steam
AND they're campaigning to have NSFW content banned from Twitter
Fuck Collective Shout
Crybullies and rich bastards censoring mention of censorship.
The articles themselves also got archived:
Best of luck to affected journalists. I hope they find a better publication to work for.
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