Vice and Motherboard owner files for bankruptcy - BBC News

The company behind the websites Vice and Motherboard has filed for bankruptcy in the US and is set to be sold to a group of its lenders.
Vice Media Group - which was valued at $5.7bn (£4.5bn) in 2017 - could be taken over for $225m.
The youth-focused digital publisher said it will continue to operate during the bankruptcy process.
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[@RobinSteiner]

I remember subscribing to them in 2011, because of the content they put out back then. Slowly but surely, however they leaned into pop culture aspects more than real reporting and I fell off personally.

[@nox4000]

They had great documentaries ~10 years ago. The North Korea series, Cannibal Warlords, various drug documentaries, the list goes on. For me Vice died when Shane Smith transitioned out of the journalist position.

[@CannabisTechLife]

Yes this was the true cause in my eyes. My partner and I used to watch vice all the time but then they started getting into random click batey videos and we dropped off.

[@kyleklmondwa9042]

VICE started becoming a "White Man BAD" "Republicans EVIL" skipping record for the past 6 yrs. Basically became CNN 2.0 but more Goofy.

[@astroboirap]

even taji?

[@sdqsdq6274]

huh ? subscribe to ?

[@FatRonaldo1]

The problem with Vice was for every 1 fantastic video and piece of reporting, there were 10 articles written by a blue haired student about why not shaving your armpits is the only way to bring down the patriarchy

[@rollthetape88]

every week an article on pegging that nobody was asking for...

[@EbonySaints]

​​@@rollthetape88 I mean... it is Vice. I don't go and read Breitbart and then complain that they talk about how guns and Jesus are essential to life. Different strokes and all that jazz... Also, wouldn't it be *not* shaving your armpits? I don't imagine how doing the typical everyday thing that women do is going to trigger anyone.

[@FatRonaldo1]

@@EbonySaints fair play I did mean to say not shaving your armpits, but the point stands that the majority of the articles on vice were absolute tripe, with a few gems sprinkled in

[@boom8906]

​@@FatRonaldo1 the original fat Ronaldo probably would say the same 😂😂

[@cannabistalk4164]

Vice destroyed itself

[@speterj]

By telling the truth. Must be the Jews.

[@thechosenwon6762]

Go woke go broke

[@OneLifeMan1]

Had they never gone full BuzzFeed mode and all political and remained unbiased as they once were this probably wouldn’t have happened

[@StonedIn0z]

One of the founders is always political, look at his other creation (he also lost control of,) the proud boys..

[@KToll5784]

@@StonedIn0zwhat does he have to do with the bankruptcy? Contemporary Vice tried to appeal to the “lifelong barista” target audience and it killed them. Cry harder.

[@MavetSomnus]

Vice was fire but fell off really hard around like 2015 (imo) it's not surprising this is finally happening

[@maazkalim]

What exactly happened back then, since 'Willy Billy' was already an EP repping HBO before that.

[@samuelbullard8978]

Go woke go broke

[@maazkalim]

Not enough of an improvement over that template #SPAM copy-pasta( granted that not-YELLING is a welcome change), Mr "@@samuelbullard8978".

[@GodHandFemto]

@@maazkalim It's what he said but more seriously, they were always pretty liberal/progressive but after the Trump election they just became insufferable with tons of actual fake news, overplaying news stories to make them seem more extreme, including using incredibly interpretative translations for their interviews. They're basically a mix of Buzzfeed + Infowars now.

[@fubytv731]

This is so sad. I've been watching Vice for years. There's no other news outlet like them, and perhaps there will never be.

[@maazkalim]

There is. You just have what's-called "fIrSt World myopia".

[@ItzWinterDoll]

Fr

[@gjkaali8563]

Mannn😮😮😮

[@TinLeadHammer]

There was Vanguard by Current TV.

[@maazkalim]

Congrats! You've reached close enough, "@@TinLeadHammer". But alas.. Not as near enough, as well.

[@sardendibs]

I’ve been a media entrepreneur for 20 years, and the problem is not, as Chris Harris says, that “everyone can broadcast to anyone” on social media. And there’s actually quite a lot of money in journalism. The problem is 1) Advertising has moved to Google and Facebook since they offer better targetting and a one-stop for advertisers. 2) Because the internet was brand new in the 90s, no one could really charge for content initially, and a culture of free digital content took roots with media users. It is finally changing, and paywalls are becoming acceptable, but it’s a long process. 3) A widespread system for micropayments is still missing from the internet. Online transactions are still expensive and cumbersome, so a media outlet can’t, say, charge 20p for you to read an article or watch a Vice documentary. The subscription model rules, and it favours a few bigger outlets.

[@xmurisfurderx]

You need to get this idea out of your head that paywalls are ever going to work they're not going to save your career or in any way restore the old monetization models

[@stevenobinator2229]

GO WOKE GO BROKE

[@amandahugenkiss]

@@stevenobinator2229 GO FASCIST, PAY YOUR TAXES. Traitor. Your mother must be so ashamed of you. You bring great embarrassment and shame to your family.

[@maazkalim]

Chris Hayes said something like "there's quite a lot of money in relaying information"?

[@sardendibs]

@@xmurisfurderx Thanks for the insights, but that is very wrong. My company's paywall is funding our operations, just as they are funding many other media outlets. They work best for verticals but can also work for general media of a certain quality. To an extent, the old model has indeed been restored. People are increasingly willing to pay for quality content - not least because of the poor quality of most ad-funded content.

[@Taiiena]

They were a platform for a lot of stories / information I would never normally engage with but was glad to be exposed to

[@danielhorritz7986]

They interviewed me. Eh. They were very sensational.

[@d1tto232]

They were not different than 24 hours on his prime but now for the new generation of young people but it was annoyed how hard they hyped their stories

[@Telencephelon]

Well said. I concur

[@internethardcase]

Like what? Hearing about people eating their own vagina fluids? They had some good documentaries like a decade ago, but they quickly fell to pop culture and biased political infotainment. It won't be missed, hence why it's going bankrupt.

[@karankadam5664]

Go woke go broke

[@sketti2331]

Vice when downhill after the ownership switch in 2016. They lost the spark then, there are much better outlets nowadays

[@maazkalim]

{Only-&-only to "the OP" & those who "👍" their parent-comment till the time of successful-posting of this reply: }What was the “switch”? Be precise and thorough. In as many words as you may require.

[@mactheknife7049]

There isn't enough money in *news* anymore, because you have to compete with "infotainment."

[@brianbassett4379]

*LOL!* You think Vice had anything to do with "news"?

[@radjalomas8854]

@@brianbassett4379 you obviously haven't watched their reporting from the field. That was real journalism, but yea, the website and SM side of Vice was pretty shitty though, just as clickbaity as the rest of them.

[@jntj3007]

@@brianbassett4379 LOL!

[@ReflectedMiles]

....regarding which, these companies have often had a confused, hybrid sort of product, and this resulted from an even more indefinite business model. I have been surprised and saddened for decades at how badly traditional media has gotten significant aspects of stories wrong that I had personal involvement in and knowledge of, and then when the alt media companies came along (including the echo-chamber political media serving Russian and other interests vested in division and the decline of Western democracy), the problem got dramatically worse and scaled-up rather than better. Those like VICE would cover some important subjects for reporting that often had little attention paid to them otherwise, but great care with verified, factual detail and multiple perspectives being included is the hard part and would get placed somewhere under production values as priorities. This was especially painful when covering highly technical subjects where it was obvious that no one involved in creating the story knew enough to avoid looking ignorant. It has not been as much good journalism as it could have been.

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

@@brianbassett4379 I don't think any other news media would have had the balls to question the Azerbaijani dictator to his face about his actions in a conflict zone. Their interview with Aliyev was great. Their on the ground coverage of conflicts from Ukraine to Palestine have been absolutely phenomenal.

[@Candy.A.]

I absolutely love VICE, they give an international and fresh lens to important issues. Damn the power of the dollar.

[@stevenobinator2229]

GO WOKE GO BROKE

[@richardv9648]

I used to like VIce. I subscribed to their youtube channel when they had less than 50K followers. But somewhere after Obama's re-election i found them to be hiding truth than actually bringing it to light. Their coverage of war in Syria and the Assad must go narrative speaks volumes.

[@palmshoot]

@@___beyondhorizon4664 Vice was a hybrid of DW and Ozy.

[@asphyxiafeeling]

They did good international content but the rest of the company was a cesspool. Good riddance

[@johnl.7754]

It has nothing to do with the Dollar if their expenses/income was in Euro, Yuan, Pound, bitcoin….it would be the same result

[@richarddelconnor]

I just watched a Vice special show. I’m disappointed to see them go. I like their simple gorilla style and honesty, which seems to breathe freely when you’re not owned by the largest corporations in the world.

[@maxgrimes5273]

Gorillas truly are forthright creatures.

[@FB-rn1qm]

Gorilla style?.??

[@FB-rn1qm]

Also vice is owned by disney andother large companies…..

[@skullburnerhenderson]

@@FB-rn1qm think he means guerilla

[@byronliu680]

"Gorllia"

[@kyzr666]

Shock by the news. VICE is one of my favorite news program. Far better than the normal ones. Their documentaries on the underground world are super interesting and helps you understand the complexities of the world.

[@James-ds5zq]

They’re extremely biased now

[@deeznutz8320]

@@James-ds5zq They are straight propaganda

[@daan260]

they used to be like that and that's what made them succesfull. However, they went full on woke and they deserve this bankruptcy because of it

[@MrKenng123]

Looks like this is just a tip of the iceberg, loads of companies are waiting to file for bankruptcy soon. 😢

[@vanguard.aggressor]

Get woke, be broke

[@EbonySaints]

The Intercept and Vox are on the chopping block next if the former's desperate emails are anything to go by. It will be good riddance for them after canning Glenn and taking down the Snowden archives, not to mention the terrible opsec over the years. Vox I'm less certain about, but given their model resembles that of Buzzfeed and Vice, but tamer and considerably more patronizing, I can't imagine them surviving this culling.

[@britishthought4018]

Its a bit of a shame.

[@brianbassett4379]

Maybe... but it is definitely a good thing for people addicted to TV.

[@yasssgawwwd5643]

Huge

[@koshisunuwarrai]

Vice Documentary and news is unparalleled to most news media brands. Thank you Vice team and Journalists for your amazing work.

[@willienelsongonzalez4609]

Damned shame that Vice and Motherboard have gone bankrupt. As folks will know, their content was a breath of fresh air! Despise their bankruptcy, I hope they’re able to continue in some form.

[@ehrgeiz5649]

If they are bankrupt while 2 years ago were worth billions... Then they certainly were not doing very well.

[@SyntaxErr19287]

A breathe of fresh air 10 years ago yeah

[@blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602]

They peaked in 2014

[@redpilledfag]

Of course you woketards would want vice to continue their lies lol

[@petergriffin8969]

Their radical left bias ran it into the ground hahaha

[@danielcaceres9971]

They were doing actual reporting, better than most legacy outlets

[@marshhen]

As this rambling vague, low of facts coverage we just watched demonstrates.

[@daniyalbbd5281]

Go woke go broke

[@poppinc8145]

Until a few years ago, that is.

[@danielcaceres9971]

@@daniyalbbd5281 how sad it must be that real reporting seems like something of an ideology for you. If you actually knew real news from Twitter news, you would see that Vice did not take roles and it stuck to real reporting, even if that meant hurting left or right ideology. Just so happens, your dumb side is mostly on the wrong and you are too scared to accept it

[@quissbird-10]

"Actual reporting". Daniel you are delusional.

[@noralarry9103]

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[@kicapanmanis1060]

If you can't monetize a "successful" product, then it wasn't really successful to begin with.

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

Young people now don't want news they want memes and to be told what to think.

[@radjalomas8854]

RIP Vice, no one else was sending reporters in the field like that. Guess we're stuck with shitertainment now!

[@MOCHI-ek6rc]

They were promoting homosexuality.

[@_o..o_1871]

@@MOCHI-ek6rc So what? Are you homophobic?

[@EbonySaints]

Al-Jazeera does on the ground coverage, but obviously you'll have to deal with the fact that Qatar is a black hole that does no wrong and that -Occupied Palestine- Israel is pure evil.

[@Dagoth_Ur_1]

They were promoting far-left ideology. Good they have gone bankrupt.

[@pattirockgarden4423]

Twitter refusing to allow links to the independent news medias.

[@vanguard.aggressor]

Cry baby, cry.

[@maazkalim]

...On what, oligarchy preferring for-profit "news"-publishers, Mr "@@vanguard.aggressor"?

[@shreekantkumarsahu9570]

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[@vanguard.aggressor]

@@maazkalim I love your stalinist's point of view, when starts to send dissident people to the gulags?, por cierto, es usted un racista, un imperialista americano, shame on you!!!!

[@xuem19]

when their office in Brooklyn expanded in 2011, it wiped out a bunch of DIY-arts spaces

[@jungleboy1]

Vice was good once upon a time. I remember the Russian Roulette series with Simon Ostrovsky.... They did some other series sending reporters in deep into warzones. After a while they did some interesting stories, a little like Louis Theroux esq. Few years back they changed and the content became really shit.

[@nadiabairamis3854]

I am devastated, VICE did some amazing reporting and they covered stories no one else was looking at. I hope they somehow survive this and continue. Unfortunately the big established media could never be as flexible, innovative or uncompromising in their reporting. It is just not structurally possible.. too much red tape and politics.

[@petergriffin8969]

What are you talking about vice became an overtly biased radical progressive propaganda outlet, that’s why they failed

[@hught6885]

But Vice started being more and more “Woke” and soon stop offering fair independent coverage, and starting a political narrative as a media company. And this turned off a lot of people as traditional media already was pushing the “woke” narrative

[@thewirah1]

Field journalism is not where the money is at. You can make more money in media sitting on a couch saying whatever comes to your mind in front of a camera.

[@maazkalim]

Hiya! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 You barely scratched-the-surface, but as they say: Something is better than nothing. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@josiahgodwin7410]

As soon as they started fundraising in there videos I knew something was up.. this is really sad and I hope they can still continue giving us exceptional content whatever the outcome

[@lancethrust9488]

GO WOKE GO BROKE

[@brianmcdowell6066]

Vice was awesome. They had a completely different way of approaching journalism. The Vice guide to North Korea was my favorite. It was doomed the moment shane smith left. RIP vice.

[@jhykobz1yq]

Vice should unironically cover their own bankruptcy and tell the story of the Shane Smith selling out and Fox bleeding out their soul

[@avrahamvidal4255]

LOL 😂

[@maazkalim]

FOX® “bleeding out their soul” is relevant, how? Also.. Who did Mr Shane "crass-tongued pro" Smith exactly “sold out to”?

[@EbonySaints]

ngl, that would be a cool send-off.

[@Monkey_D_Luffy56]

Vice didn't filter anything and that's why people loved them

[@Runeansfelt]

Vice news is genius. I love their reporting and it would be a giant loss if they're not part of the news media companies in the way they're organized as is now. I really hope they can continue their work and reporting. It really is great stuff they're making.

[@SomeRandomGuy121]

Its actually overall all round prettey dumb, but still, they do some good stories.

[@HaughtKarl-jx9vr]

It was decent until the became "woke."

[@RozzWilliamsScholarsSociety]

Vice tried contacting us almost a decade ago trying to do a video on Christian Death. They looked so hip-hop and and poppy in their gimmick and marketting - we promptly ignored them and their continued e-mails.

[@cucumbaboi2872]

That's good news. They were getting too biased with their reports.

[@scarsvictor5931]

it hurts a lot to see vice news to be facing such crisis

[@TruckerJacket]

Good to see a respectful assessment of the challenge facing vice

[@maazkalim]

Not that the British State broadcaster has got much of a choice.

[@Superratis]

I used to read their magazines and watch their docs but once they sold, they became garbage.

[@josephweber4387]

Vice was great, went wokeish and lost most people including me, it’s not rocket science to figure out what happened

[@malikaivillatte9065]

The nostalgia from I get from some vice documentaries is crazy there will never be anything like vice again

[@zombl337og]

ashame, but for me they were hit or miss from the beginning and never truly took hold

[@maazkalim]

“Ashame[ _sic_ ]” of what? Are you sure you weren't referring to yourselves?

[@zombl337og]

@@maazkalim f u talkin bout bruh

[@ryanrandall1727]

Andrew Tate must be LOVING this 😂

[@Astuar]

Though I lost my interest to the majority of topics Vice tried to cover, but I will never forget their amazing on ground reporting and ivestigations.

[@marcd2743]

Vice was really good in their inception but became a version of Buzzfeed/Vox and went totally woke, and the quality of their content took a steep dive.

[@skullburnerhenderson]

shame, their war coverage is always top notch

[@beautifullyours]

I agree

[@sinlokemp]

The problem was the woke content. I was an early Vice fan and loved their content but they started preaching and feeding their woke narratives and that’s when they lost a lot of their genuine fans.

[@amgry5461]

Well it's down to the decline in both quantity and quality of content

[@maazkalim]

Are you one of those cable-news pundits from FOX® Business or globally-accessible CNBC® network?

[@AdamBechtol]

This piece misses completely that the content of Vice changed. As many commenters are pointing out.

[@nsp477]

The host could at least try to hide that he's having a blast with Vice's bankruptcy. His sarcastic grin has "I told you, b!tch" written all over. Not that I have any horse running in that race, but you know, professionalism and so on.

[@CMB21497]

Although I liked their foreign journalism, the domestic journalism went way too heavy on pushing an agenda. I just think people are sick of their news pushing any agenda for that matter.

[@bhew7409]

I watched a lot of Vice when it had cool indi documentaries on. For me, it sold out when it went to TV and all of a sudden the content seemed to go for quantity over quality.

[@Cruzeoc101]

Motherboard was just a hate outlet and vice became just as ignorant when they lost gavin

[@operator9858]

Says the guy with a german hate symbol as his avatar? 😂😂

[@Cruzeoc101]

@@operator9858 I'm glad you recognise it's a German hate symbol that the Ukrainian army use

[@Kosmonooit]

The Murdoch deal was the beginning of the end ... I found them back in the day before KZbin, Shane's trip to the DPRK was the stuff of legends

[@infernogamers168]

Go woke go broke….

[@doctorrampage5080]

Top g is having the time of his life i am guessing

[@Professional_Youtube_Commenter]

vice lost because they just weren';t producing content quick enough to get people going back. They didn't place ads like the tacky mainstream channels. they did paid editorials, so they'll make a article or video around giving a brand exposure. websites like daily mail gets tonnes of returning visitors and a lot of shares, they can basically gossip about latest influncer gossips and stuff, make a good headline and get people in. Vice was trying to do higher quality stuff and just couldn't compete for people's attention. Add to that, a lot of stuff they were product was not for mass consumption but for fringe audiences.

[@condotiero860]

confirmation bias. I agree. I got a bit of nostalgia when i saw VICE using their old longform format. But it just didn't hit the same You can see the breakage, from reports seeming haphazardly edited, to well crafted narratives with ulterior motives. Honestly, my two cents... their audience got old. Young impressionable millennials are in their 30s now; got that MBA, double masters, with a minor in history... and they know better than to get their news from VICE. VICE got outclassed. Be honest, journo degree isnt hard. Which is competing with history majors and econ majors for attention. I dont care what some soyboy thinks about Ukraine. I need facts, not a propaganda piece. If i was VICE Executive Officer... i'd have taught my staff Spanish. This would all be tragic, if it wasn't poetic justice. Couldn't have happened to a better company. Vice is that teacher that dropped your lowest homework and curved your grades. Millennials are realizing that's why they lose to the kid that took college calc in high school. Facts matter, reality has a low tolerance for bulllshit. TL;DR: if you stopped watching VICE rn, would you miss anything that you couldnt get anywhere else? I meet professors, really cool dudes, too shy to stand in front of a camera, but give him burger and five Heinekens, and he can condense his entire semester long course in 5 hours. All of it peer reviewed.

[@abolishthe19thamendment]

You're wrong actually, they went woke, and went broke.

[@craigboden9455]

The daily mail is just as bad. One day they're saying eggs are good for you and the next they're saying eggs kill you. All these companies are the same. They will lie to you to make their money. Can't trust any of them. Vice deserves it as well after what they did to the tate brothers.

[@TheJespah]

Compairing Vice to Buzzfeed is a bit unfair. Buzzfeed never made one even okay documentary, when Vice has had some of the best reportage of the last ten years. Sure they had their lowpoints but they still producess some of the best online news prodcasts.

[@ArijitR-d9j]

Really hope the legacy lives on

[@maazkalim]

Their “legacy” is already based off on something else's, their hitherto-uncredited spiritual-ancestor ever since one of the Occidental Messiahs in "iHindoo IT Cell", Gavin McInnes( no salutation!) was booted-out - leading way to their reincarnation in 2007-ish.

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[@psicologiajoseh]

I really hope they survive. As a foreign consumer of Vice media, it is refreshing to see that they are self-aware of all the “vices“ and biases of the anglo speaking rich countries. You can see that they try to have a worldly style, and generally, they can achieve it.

[@crossfire7474]

Sad they're gone, Vice mews used to do hardcore journalism when going to North Korea.

[@gmathieson7184]

Vice went woke and paid the price.

[@premierpollo]

Maybe VICE shouldn't have purchased all those offices and minded their budget. Overspending is the issue. People are spending to much during a time they should be saving.

[@hassyg4083]

was funny seeing Andrew Tate make fun of the vice reporter who also works for BBC

[@theindian2226]

Everything is uncertain

[@djbbdfggh]

To the WOKE....yes.

[@zsht]

Roman Roy was right all along! A failing business with good assets.

[@quisqueyanguy120]

"And here's why its a good thing"

[@developersamuel]

Vice was great until they became woke

[@DerekDAngel]

They started off as an incredible news channel and maintained a great reputation in the consumer news community, but eventually they started to fall off and you could tell that a lot of their funding was swaying them "too far left" which turned their news into a bias source of information. Overall, I could definitely see this coming because they were an independent news organization and after a while of being directed by their investors to do irrelevant news topics, they lost viewers. You can't just have any old investor come in and run your news channel. If you're being funded to cover stories that don't relate to what your channel represents, then you're self-sabotaging your own organization at that point.

[@ratuls21]

I am a regular Audience Of Vice. They are one of a kind media outlet. Can't imagine them shutting down.

[@davewilliam5228]

SLOW DOWN GLOBAL WARMING 1. USE SOLAR PANELS. 2. USE ELECTRIC CAR'S OR USE BIKE'S. 3. TURN OFF TELEVISION, TURN OFF LIGHT BUB'S AND TURN OFF PHONE'S. 4. REUSE, REDUCE AND RECYCLE. 5. GET FACTORIES THAT CAUSE POLLUTION TO STOP CAUSE POLLUTION.

[@NiceOneBroHAHA]

Sad to see. The original creators made such great content and it was real groundbreaking journalism. Now they create content without fact checking or have certain narratives they try to push. Hard to support something that just doesn't have the content or credibility it used to...

[@markgonsalves]

A world without Vice Media is a Sad world for Journalism and media.

[@ytzpilot]

Being Canadian I remember the original magazine in the 90s it was representative of our subculture at that time

[@Skybar23]

What a shame!!!...,loved the investigative journalism they provided on topics and issue that mainstream news media wouldnt cover.

[@CosmicVoyager25]

Anyone notice the guy walking into Joel's head around 3:50

[@johnbooth5297]

Vice had some of the best documentaries I've ever seen in my life Definitely influenced my youth but in later years they got way too political and Lost their audience due to their extreme bias like people just want a story sometimes man everything doesn't have to be political...

[@alexbielovich]

That first sentence sounded so smug!

[@nellytann2790]

they have great resources and cover topics other media can't, its unfortunate to say but they did their best.

[@HandgunSafe]

This is alarmist nonsense. There are plenty of news sources providing good, in-depth journalism. One just has to be willing to look outside of American/British news media sources. India and European news sources can be excellent, and they lack the biases found in Vice, NPR, CNN, BBC, etc.

[@maazkalim]

That depends.

[@HandgunSafe]

@@maazkalim It does. I should have been clear about something. Other cultures will have their biases. But they'll be different than what we in the U.S. see routinely.

[@maazkalim]

*Since it's most-likely the case:* I'm strictly addressing “India and European news sources[ _sic_ ]” part of your parent-comment. Nothing more, nothing less.

[@stekon9112]

Go woke go broke?

[@adamali3464]

I'm glad these sort of channel's go back curpt

[@_nom_]

I'm glad. Vice just sensationalized the dark side.

[@maazkalim]

Define.

[@k1ngzreign336]

good news

[@nuqwestr]

"Go Woke, Go Broke"

[@davidhenryandthemysterons3220]

They should follow the BBC method, fretten people with prison, if they don't pay

[@joolst1149]

VICE may have stepped on some well heeled toes. It slapped hard w/hard hitting news. Hope it comes back with a vengeance.

[@bertoman1990]

They were the most reliable digital news outlet we could ever count on every since their outbreak into society. Each time they drop a hot topic, they were always thrilling and exciting to look forward to. Hope they retain the same Vice production team.

[@SammyDaBiz]

Reliable lol…… hilarious

[@chrisk7533]

and nothing of value was lost

[@ratchet2505]

BBC should buy them, great ground news source for BBC iPlayer.

[@vanguard.aggressor]

yeah, great idea, support a woke with our taxes.

[@maazkalim]

Bwahahahahah! You should check out my insights in parent-comment, then.

[@RemarkXer]

3:26 Why is there a ninja casually walking on the white house roof? :)

[@odepoikanen]

I hope all the material, the content they have covered will not just get deleted from online.

[@dod6031]

Vice’s last good piece they did was the one in Xinjiang. Felt like a proper old school vice documentary. The best ones were the Liberian Warlords, Old Firm, North Korea & Westboro Baptist Church documentaries.

[@julioduan7130]

They didn’t provide any solid evidence about Uyghur genocide but only rumors, accusations, imaginations, etc.

[@dod6031]

@@julioduan7130 Didn’t take long for a Beijing bot to show up.

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

I think the main issue was that they overvalued themselves to investors. Like it seems Vice News is like a 10 million dollar company or maybe even a 100 million dollar company but not a billion dollar company.

[@extrememiami]

Where on earth will we ever get our woke LGBTQZRA+ news now?? How will I know exactly how aweful and racist I am on a scale of 1-10? Noooooo!

[@LibrasLion]

That’s pretty damn sad.

[@Luna.3.3.3]

Very sad day. I've been watching Vice for years.💔

[@bigbenthewomanrespecter5022]

I realized a few weeks ago that Vice was extraordinarily obstreperous in their plea for donations lately. Makes sense.

[@maazkalim]

...Did they precisely say “donations”, though? And how did you responded to their calls-for-action?( Reply only-&-only if rigorously-honest.)

[@khaald8927]

They should ask forgiveness Andrew Tate 😂😂😂😂

[@maazkalim]

A who???

[@shreekantkumarsahu9570]

​@@maazkalim A LEFTWING TERRORIST A$$ KICKER

[@bianshij8280]

it’s sad to see VICE disappear, it’s a good channel.

[@gregbester3855]

Sad day for investigative journalism.