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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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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks 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.