Kotaku Editor-in-Chief Jen Glennon announced she resigned from the website a little over two weeks after the outlet’s Alyssa Mercante lied about video game consultant company Sweet Baby Inc.
Glennon posted on X, “Some personal news! I’ve resigned from Kotaku and Jim Spanfeller is an herb.”
Jen Glennon on X
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Jim Spanfeller is the CEO of G/O Media, the company that owns Kotaku. As for Glennon calling him an herb, it’s a derogatory term that means “worthy of being mocked. Weak, chumpish, and generally to be avoided” according to Urban Dictionary.
As for why Glennon resigned, Aftermath’s Gita Jackson and Riley MacLeod claim after viewing her resignation letter it was “due to the management team’s recent decision to deprioritize news in favor of guides.”
Jen Glennon via Kotaku YouTube
Glennon wrote in her resignation letter, “After careful consideration, I have concluded that the current management structure and decision-making processes at G/O Media are not aligned with my values and goals for Kotaku.”
She added, “I firmly believe that the decision to ‘invert’ Kotaku’s editorial strategy to deprioritize news in favor of guides is fundamentally misguided given the current infrastructure of the site. [This decision is] directly contradicted by months of traffic data, and shows an astonishing disregard for the livelihoods of the remaining writers and editors who work here.”
Aftermath also claims that this new decision by management to deprioritize news will require Kotaku staff to create 50 guides per week.
Jen Glennon via Kotaku YouTube
Kotaku staff writer Levi Winslow noted that these game guides will be aggregated from other websites.
Winslow wrote, “you know what? f*** it. here’s a small cup of tea: management doesn’t even care about the quality of the guides. they want us to ‘aggregate’ them from other sites like a literal content mill. that they’re destroying ppl’s livelihoods gags me (not in the good way)”
The writer added, “last thing i’ll say is this: someone at the top told us to just ‘get guides done’ because the av club “watches full seasons of a show and still produces their stories.” that alone is proof that they don’t understand what we do.”
Levi Winslow on X
The resignation comes a little over two weeks after Kotaku’s Alyssa Mercante ran a PR puff piece in order to defend Sweet Baby Inc., their woke agenda, and their cancellation campaign against Brazilian gamer KabrutusRambo and his Steam curator list. The list tracks all games that Sweet Baby Inc. has been involved in and firmly states that it does not recommend them. It essentially acts as a boycott list for gamers who are interested in the woke agenda being pushed onto video games.
Sweet Baby Inc. CEO Kim Belair confirmed that was her company’s goal in a 2019 Game Developers Conference presentation. She said, “None of what we’re doing is about ticking boxes or about a veneer of wokeness. We actually have to care about making this stuff.”
Mercante reacted to Glennon’s resignation writing on X, “An absolute legend who refused to compromise her integrity and that of the site.”
Alyssa Mercante on X
Interestingly, Mercante has not announced her resignation.
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