Hello fellow gamers,
We're the people who will be implementing the next chapter for OAG.
As many of you have noticed, there is a lot of controversy and concern about the site's future under new management. This, in part, is owed to how we went about announcing the next chapter of our journey together. For this, we apologize and are here to dispel any and all rumors going around as well as address any questions you our audience have for us.
We will show you with our action and our product's quality that we are serious about our mission and respect for you - the consumer. To begin this process, we are setting up an AMA to answer questions you have about the transition, staffing, what is going on, or who is best girl and why traps are most assuredly gay. Anything you are curious about, we will attempt to answer.
Ask us anything!
Proof: https://twitter.com/OneAngryGamerHD/status/1323646163317383169
We'll start answering your questions in 3 hours.
https://kotakuinaction2.win/u/OneAngryGamerHD/ ( Lead Editor ) https://kotakuinaction2.win/u/Kevin_Green/ ( Legacy Writer ) AKA Kevin : )
Yeah, hard pass.
Hi, I'll start off with saying we misspoke by using the term hate speech before consulting or digging more into the culture we have delved in. As we come from Europe and both me and the CEO are quite apolitical it seems we have quite a different understanding of the term. At first glance it sounds as if we're looking to censor, censor and censor, but that is not the case. The previous format of OAG was absolutely not sustainable and it was lucky to survive as much as it did. We are not looking to censor opinions as long as they abide by the rules, which google has set to make the site fully sustainable, which is basically not using racial slurs and sharing pornography openly, which doesn't seem like a big request to ask from our community, at least in our eyes. The rules that we will have to follow can be found here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9335564
You did? Everything I read from you here confirms what I believe what you are about. Your whole operation is about making money and you believe you have what it takes to do it. Don't get me wrong, I'll never blame the one that makes a shitty offer. I'll blame the people that take it. I just don't think that you'll get enough reach with that offer. As I said, the people that care about free speech won't touch your site without at least one archive between you and them and the people that are dumb enough to believe you have a neutral stance have 'better' alternatives that pretend even more that you are on their side.
I am from Europe too, so ... yeah, so what? And as i don't think your target audience is european (although I'd be impressed if you had the balls to try that insanity) that is not an argument at all. I would have given you the benefit of the doubt but you couldn't not use hate speech in your little maintainance-message. I just don't believe that was an accident by someone that wants to be a major force in a very american-centric battle. Because anyone that pays even a little attention knows that Europe doesn't even know what a culture war even is. Case in point: Your excuse about being europeans.
Even so, that whole statement is a bit like Michael Pachter who recently said that he doesn't understand the whole hybrid-concept but we should still listen to him why Nintendo is doomed (again). Don't get me wrong, I really believe there is an opportunity in the marketplace. But betting your fortune on the culture war isn't going to do you any favours. Sure, you can use a litte clickbait short term but that's not going to net you any relevant marketshare. Billy tried right-wing clickbait and it got everyone turned off. There's a reason why you said that OAG wasn't sustainable.
Yet you tell us that you have to abide to rules that aren't codified into law in the US. They aren't in europe either but that whole thing in europe is, and I have to admit that, rather insane. So, even if you don't want to 'censor censor censor' it's the only reasonable conclusion to your stance. Again, I understand why you do that. I understand that you may even hope you can be as free speech as it gets on the Internet 2.o. I may even believe that you believe what you say. It just doesn't change the outcome. You will always have to censor your 'consumers' and as censorship goes it will never be enough. Because there's always someone willing to be offended enough at anything so someone higher up your chain will decide that whatever offended idiot Nr. 200023422340 on the planet has to be included in their hate-speech-policy from now on. I know that law isn't immune to that insanity, but at least law doesn't move faster than the speed of light (as in "the new rules have to be applied retroactively")
So, calling women cunts is A-OK? I'm sure u/TheImpossible1 will be glad to hear that. On the other hand, I'm quite sure this is hate speech as well, according to Google. Anyway, I wish you good luck when you start banning users for calling white people crackers and all the work you will have with the ensuing backlash.
What have you done with William you hook nosed bastards?!
I wanted to clarify this in the original post for this reason, that statement was made hastily after the acquisition and before any research into the site was conducted. it is a direct copy/paste of Google's terms and I can clarify this issue.
One Angry Gamer will continue to focus on being pro-consumer, calling out political interjection, and advocating for free speech. The changes will focus largely on how the comment section functions because of Google's requirements for AdSense which is required to make the site viable and to get crawlers to actually archive the site so we show up in search results.
In the comments terms that Google defines as Hate Speech will be prohibited as will pornography. We'll be setting up a discord that will serve as the platform for free and open conversation that while bound by Discords TOS will be a complete free speech bastion.
Management recognizes this will inconvenience and indeed annoy our readership, but our hands are tied in this regard. We've worked hard to find ways to maintain the OAG atmosphere and to carry on the mission Billy started years ago while complying with what is required of us in order to be a viable business.
Our new lead editor will comment on this further, but the message will soon change to reflect our core ideas going forward and to mitigate misunderstandings created by the original message.
For clarity those values are -Pro-Consumer -Pro-Escapism (IE we're calling out political interjection) -Get Woke Go Broke will continue and the list will return after review -All rules implemented will be defined and enforced equally.
A lot of this was discussed behind the scenes so management hasn't had the chance to update the site properly and wants to take into account all your feedback before doing so.
Well, good luck with that. You'll find that the overlap of people that care about free speech and people that think it's a good idea to let google dictate what zhey are allowed to say is abysmally small.
Your hands may be bound but I don't think you have a viable buisness on them either way.
Google will not dictate what you can and cannot say. I'll not cheapen it by beggaring, but pragmatically we're talking about a few words and posting images on another platform. You can still dunk on wokeness, interjection, etc and we'll continue to cover that stuff.
Come again?
"Google will not dictate what you can and cannot say."
"terms that Google defines as"
"our hands are tied"
One of these statements doesnt make sense with the other two, can you tell us which one?
Here's something you can start with. We aren't consumers. We're customers. Get that right first and maybe your site won't be shit.
Pro-Consumer is a broader and accepted term for Pro-Customer. We look forward to retaining all our readers and serving them well with quality content that will continue the core idea set forth by Billy.
No, it's newspeak that removes agency from the customers. It also allows plausible deniability for shady corporations who provide a service to 'consumers' where the 'consumers' are the product.
The issue with the "terms that Google defines as Hate Speech" is that these are vague by design.
As site owners focused on profitability, you will err on the safe side in order to maintain your AdSense status. This means you will always censor more than necessary.
That's just a fact. It's not damning you or anyone else, it's just an intersection of circumstances and motivations.
If Google is the issue, why not find another ad company? Worrying about googles TOS is hardly trying "to carry on the mission Billy started years ago"
One Angry Gamer was blacklisted by Google's crawlers. Fixing advertisement issues is easy and doable by contacting an advertisement agency and working out a placement arrangement. The problem is if google doesn't archive your site you don't get traffic.
We had great content and were starting to do good and google dropped our daily views down to 20% what they were. Billy did his best to comply with them, but he wouldn't sacrifice a few areas like comments and his own phrasing. It is respectable, but as you can see the end results were what they were.
So (((Kevin))) actually usurped William and shown his true colors
mark me unsurprised, i fucking told William it was unwise to hire a jew for staff but he insisted that Kevin was a good guy who would've never betrayed OAG...
Poor William, not only he was coerced to hand over OAG to these (((fellow gamers))) but also he got jew'ed by someone who thought was his friend
i truly hope there is a special kind of hell for people like you Kevin (((Green)))
Like Ethan I was given my pens down notice. I do not know if Ethan was in the know, but I was kept out of it even on common sense messaging you'd want your staff to be telling people.
I became involved in the relaunch after the new owners contacted me to retain my services.
As for my true colors, that is not hard to figure out. I don't prefer to lie, I merely don't tell people everything. Not a lie by omission, but I'm not keen on revealing my personal ideology, motivation, and mentalities. If you're observant it's not hard to piece together like 60% of it though. It's a mixture of naturalism, occultism, Buddhism, Taoism, and philosophy.