It is with heavy heart that I bring you this news: Reaxxion, the dopey video game site that racist skeezeball PUA and rape legalization proponent Roosh V set up at the height of #Gamergate, has been shut down.
Wait, did I say “with heavy heart?” I meant AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Anyhoo, so earlier today, Roosh broke the heart of dozens of readers by announcing that Reaxxion, his opportunistic and ill-concieved attempt to cash in on #Gamergate, would be no more.
I’ve decided to close Reaxxion after approximately nine months of operation. Traffic has not grown to a level that allows the site to financially sustain itself. We have not been able to consistently surpass 250,000 page views a month.
I take full blame for the site’s commercial failure. The writers and editor did a great job trying to achieve my vision of what Reaxxion should be, but in spite of that, the growth did not occur. I attribute this failure to creating the site from a spontaneous idea (in response to gamergate) instead of developing it organically based on an actual need. The fact the gamergate continues to be successful and influential in other communities shows that I did not even provide a substantial need to the audience it was intended for.
(Emphasis mine.)
Setting aside Roosh’s painfully inept writing — you don’t provide needs, you repugnant doofus, you fill them — I will grant him a few points for at least admitting his failure here; others in the extended manosphere, well, let’s jsut say they aren’t so good at this.
The “editor” in question is the lovely and talented Matt Forney; the loss of this “job” will presumably enable him to spend more time with his family stewing in his own rancid juices.
If Forney or any of the site’s writers were actually getting paid for this, it’s possible that Roosh lost a not-insignificant amount of money on this attempted cash-grab. (The amount of ad revenue you get for 250k views a month is pretty tiny.) The cloud to this silver lining is that the money Roosh may have lost would have mostly been going to people as shitty as he is.
Let’s look back at some of Reaxxion’s coverage of, er, video games, from the last few months to see what we’ll be missing:
Come to think of it, I think I will miss them!
H/T — @tauriqmoosa, for the tip!
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Nine articles in four months may have had something to do with their lack of success…
Might I suggest that the reason it failed is that GG types don’t want a male only space that’s for talking about games?
In the same way that MGTOWs will never go their own way because their raison d’etre is harassing women, the GG crowd can’t function in an environment that’s devoid of women to abuse.
Sure you don’t provide needs, but you also don’t necessarily fill them. Quite often you create needs which is how, say, bottled water is such a huge industry.
I want to believe that those “articles” are Photoshopped, and yet…
Love love love that Beyonce gif.
Those Reaxxion articles look so interesting … NOT. I guess there are limits on how much you can milk from bigots.
“They obsess over TV and movies because it’s all they have.”
The lack of awareness is strong with this one.
Also yay party time.
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*Self awareness
Says the guy who thinks that feminists are out to destroy video games/TV/Movies for the good and just men of the world.
Yeah, game journalism is actually a lot of work. You need to play each game for a significant amount of time and write a lengthy review of it. The only reviews I know of that most GGers have an issue with are positive reviews of Depression Quest (of course) and similar games and reviews that took rating points off of Grand Theft Auto V and Bayonetta 2 for sexism and sexual objectification (though both reviews were ultimately favorable IIRC).
But GG is less about journalism and more about radicalizing anti-feminist gamers deeper into far right politics.
Is that… Is that Obama dancing with Ellen?
My life is officially complete. My last request is to have that amazing GIF posted on my tombstone.
Thanks, Nestle.
@SFHC:
Because nothing will scare away the neo-nazi Goobers more than a black man dancing with a lesbian.
@SFHC
It is! I didn’t recognize him. 20 presidential years sure does a lot to a man.
It’s actually about ethics in standard RoK talking points. And also Candy Crush.
You’ve got to love the irony of an article about what losers feminists are for “obsessing” about TV shows being placed right under an article obsessing about the nonexistent cuckolding symbolism in a Nickelodeon show. Every time I think the manosphere can’t get less self aware, they set the bar at a new high/low.
The black men are even cuckolding lesbian couples now?
Those nine are just the ones WHTM picked as representative of the site’s general ethos; it seems they actually published a good amount of stuff every day, but much of it was of the “Don’t you just hate SJWs???” variety.
Honest question that I was thinking about recently: what (for lack of a better term) cultural products has GamerGate actually given rise to, and what’s the current state of them? There’s Reaxxion, which is now closed; there’s GoodGamers, which closed a few months ago; there’s BasedGamer, which successfully raised $50,000 to get going and has shown few signs of life ever since; there’s The Sarkeesian Effect and, well, we know how that one’s going; I know there have been campaigns to make games and books and YouTube series and stuff, but I don’t think any of them have actually come through. Anyone know?
For supposedly being a gaming website they sure have a lot of articles about TV shows, movies and politics compared to the amount of articles about video games. It’s almost like they are massive hypocrites or something
I’ve been having a scan through the site. There’s an article about the study on how the poorest performing gamers are the worst abusers. The author goes goes through the study but rejects the conclusion on the ground “Everyone knows….”
As one of the commentators puts it:
It’s bad science but since they have the science degree and I don’t they get a pass in the ivory tower.
I sympathise. There’s nothing worse than when people give more credence to qualified experts and their peer reviewed double blind studies than my anecdotes and gut feelings.
nightmarelyre,
They’re obviously fake geek guys who just want attention.
I’m confused by the “The fact the gamergate continues to be successful and influential in other communities shows that I did not even provide a substantial need to the audience it was intended for.” bit. I didn’t think that GamerGate was ever successful in any community, let alone continuing to be successful.
What’s that?
An attempt to cash in on a disorganized, chaotic group of people only united by their hatred and anger made by someone who knew nothing about the industry/community he was trying to weasel in on failed miserably?
Say it ain’t so!
How could he have possibly ever failed with such scintillating, thought-provoking article blurbs as, ‘how can you hate something there’s TWO of?’ and, ‘Star Wars never had equality before, argle bargle!’
Apparently Roosh is aiming to move all the Reaxxion stuff over to his RoK blog, and getting the former writers to continue writing over there. Figures, really. Now he gets to be even more blatant about pushing his PUA garbage to a (very small) demographic he thinks needs it.
Ah well. What a suprise his knee-jerk reaxxion to a reaxxionary movement failed to garner any significant… reaxxion.
I’ll see myself out now.
Not some much “forgetting” he had a site, as not giving a flying f’ that he had a site. 😉
@AcidTrial
Well, 4Chan, Reddit and the manosphere are technically communities. Sort of. Maybe. When they aren’t cannibalising eachother. By a certain definition.
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