Asmongold TV - MASSIVE game journalist layoff just happened.. | Asmongold TV

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

MASSIVE game journalist layoff just happened.. Asmongold show for all of his stream highlights, competitions, reactions & more. ----------------------------------- ---------- Keywords: online gaming, gaming news, gaming hot takes, gaming content creator, pc gaming, esports commentary, streaming highlights, gaming takes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hose man. Oh. Oh, jeez. Oh. Too bad. She got laid off. Yeah. I love to fucking see it, man.

I really do. I love to fucking see it. It's crazy how much of a W this is. So I obviously, I saw this myself. And welcome home. That's right, boys. welcome right back good meme yeah there it is so we sending them back to macdonalds we sending them back to door dash

we sending them back to uber we sending them back to the unemployment line and we're gonna send them back to starbucks and they ain't never coming back this is what's happening and this has been listen this has been a long fight it's been a long fucking fight but they're finally going to put the fries in the fucking bag. And so anyway,

yeah, this is no, IGMMing stops, okay. Yeah, I'm generally positive about them, but everybody's going to have their own opinion. But anyway, we'll go ahead and we'll watch this. We'll listen to it here. So, rest and piss Polygon. Link to the tweet. So Polygon,

for anybody who doesn't know, let's take a look. You know what, guys? You want to know one thing I love? Graphs. I like graphs. Polygon for the website. So how's Polygon doing? Let's take a look.

Am I looking? Is this the right website? There's no way this is the right website. I think it's like bugged or something. Yeah, it's crypto. Oh, it's crypto. Oh, fuck. Polygon's also a crypto? God damn it.

Okay, um, Polygon games website. Nah, damn it. You can specify? Yeah, it's also a shape. Yeah, I thought, okay, I guess we can't show that. I'm sorry. Sorry, guys. I apologize. Actually, yeah, yeah, I'm probably not going to be able to show it. But anyway, throw in their URL, Google trends are really bad at what you're trying to do.

They aren't if you have the correct search term, but I do not have the correct search term. I'm sorry. Choose category. All categories. Let me see if I can find it. Food and drink, arts and entertainment, maybe. That might be it. but I'm really just not sure because, I mean, they weren't around in 2004. So anyway, games. Oh, let me try and do games. Okay.

Well, let's go ahead and just assume this is the way it is, okay? So Polygon, IGN, and it's a website, and Kotaku, also another website. So, what are these numbers showing? Let's see, let's take a look at Oh, geez, let's see if I can find another one Do we have another website? One more? Come on, we've got to have one more, right?

PC gamer. Oh, God! Oh, geez. Oh, that's bad. And so anyway, we have right here. So you have Polygon, and it's just been circling the drain for a long time. And you can see also like it,

Look at this. These websites are dying. They are dying and they are going extinct. Look at this in the past 90 days. They're actually basically cooked, guys. They are. They're basically cooked. We've killed them.

We have. We have killed them. And by the way, you're welcome. And so anyway, video game website Polygon has been sold to Valnet with the majority of staff has been laid off. that again is the you know that was the reference that I was making here compared to the Azlegold doesn't matter

anyway so let's go back we'll look at this here and it's been an amazing year Vowenet owns numerous other games media websites Polygon has been sold to Vowna I am no longer with Polygon oh no he's on blue sky

if you're hiring please consider the many talented writers and editors, guys, if you're hiring a night now, please do not. Please do not. Do not! Do that, that's the last thing you should do. Oh, God.

Do not hire these fuckers. Yes, every one of them deserves to spot on your... I can see why they got rid of you. I won't be taking... I won't be talking about the sale because I wasn't involved. Going out with my kid, taking one's right in.

Chris, I'm so sorry. Oh, man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You sure are. You sure are. And anyway, let's see. If Forneuric Polygon writer also took to social media. I had a great time working at Polygon. Please let me know if you have any cool job openings. I'll say more later, but I no longer have a job. I'm looking for work, as there are so many as are so many of my amazing colleagues. I have lots of ideas and things I like to write. I'm really in shock. I'd like to think earlier this week, man, I love my job and I'm so excited to jump into summer blockbuster season. And now I don't have my job. And keep in mind, all these people are on blue sky. We're having such a complete chud blowout victory that I'm almost getting tired of winning. Really? This is crazy.

Oh my God. Yeah, this is don't feel bad. I don't feel bad. Go ad free. Ah, Jesus. It's so annoying, isn't it? There we go. Okay. Somehow I got it to go away.

But anyway, yeah, suffering from success. I guess so McDonald's is waving for them. And anyway, let's go back. We'll get this. I'm among the many folks who got laid off today. I don't have anything good or thoughtful to say on it at the moment. Gutted, sad, feel completely fucked. You are.

Fuck Vox Media Management Forever. They did this shit on May Day. Vox Media Union Forever. well apparently not because you're gone so there's not not a union right because you're fired I mean there it is I mean I don't know

what's she talking about I don't even know what are we doing and let's see here another blue sky another blue sky person along with just about everybody else at Polygon I am now out of a job ending over a decade at Vox Media for me working at Polygon was a wonderful experience and proud of the work I did there I will be looking for work as

start as well as starting my own projects on the side. Stay tuned. So, Polygon is dead. It's dead. That's it. The fact that we have to normalize your type of political and social discourse is fucking insane. And ironically, you're doing important work in a world, bringing balance to the force. My goal is to...

So I want to make sure that this is abundantly clear. I view these people as destructive parasites and a cancer to, gaming, and they're also a cancer to society. And I view it as my responsibility to do the best that I can to root them out and remove them and diminish their influence as much as I possibly can. And so I do my best to do that. I think that I'm doing a public service. And I'm sure they think that about me too. And that's why they write all the articles lying about me. But the fact is that I do find these people to be destructive, disgusting. And also, they create no value. And the sad thing is for them is that it seems like everybody tends to agree with me and so they're gone they're getting bought by

the porn hub guy good maybe you finally get some good content on there yeah they create negative value yes you're right streamers are 100% parasites as well that's fine you can think whatever you want there's a lot of people that hate streamers you want me to like argue with you about like trying to justify me being a streamer i don't care what you think about streamers go ahead think whatever you want but anyway um The team did not deserve this. Look at them all, bro. Look at them all. Man.

What happened with Polygon today is so fucked. Vox Media has made some atrocious decisions in my six years here, but this is really something else. I'm going to put this in the most polite and generous and kind terms that I possibly can. Your contributions to the gaming industry were worthless. Your content was worthless. You created negative, value. No one liked you. Nobody cared about your content. And the reason why you're getting fired

isn't because of your politics. It's not because of anything else other than the fact that you can't attract advertisers because nobody cares what you have to say. That's the reason why. And here's the other thing, here's another thing to keep in mind. A lot of these people aren't going to be able to get jobs in this writing industry again because people just don't want to hire somebody who creates work at a website that's worthless and nobody reads their articles. And so these people are pretty much fucked. And that's it. And I keep clean the parasites off the internet. I'm doing my best, man. Look at what she looks like. It doesn't matter what she looks like. I don't need to talk about what she looks like. It doesn't matter to me. The fact is that

you know, like we're coming out of head regardless. So that's all that matters. Make a Blue Cry account for trolling. Yeah, I guess so. Google Yasm and has been going. got banned. There's a lot of those. Nothing positive about you. They can only write bad news. Everybody always trying to talk shit about me and have opinions about me. But at the end of the day, I'm where I'm at and there where they're at. And so I'd be mad too. Honestly, if I was them, I'd be fucking pissed. And so she technically got permud. Yeah, she did. And so they're shutting down the whole thing. And they should earn the pick fruit. Yep, Polygon sucks. W. Good riddance. And everybody, here's the thing. Hopefully

Kataku is next? Now, is Kataku and these other games? gaming websites, are they going to die? Yes. You cannot have an analytics graph like this. You can't do it. You can't run a business like this. Polygon is dead and all of these worthless trash writers that are on blue sky that are trying to push

their weird, perverse politics and video games that have these weird social views that want to push them on you and want you de-platforms. for having an opinion that they disagree with. Now they're out of a job, and they're going back to McDonald's, DoorDash, Burger King, Walmart, or maybe just the unemployment line. And I think Rip Bozo, you get what you fucking deserve.

I'm really glad to see this, and I hope that, you know, I can take at least partial credit in at least moving this a little bit farther over to making it happen.