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  • čas přidán 14. 05. 2023
  • The company behind the websites Vice and Motherboard has filed for bankruptcy in the US and is set to be sold to a group of its lenders.
    Vice Media Group - which was valued at $5.7bn (£4.5bn) in 2017 - could be taken over for $225m.
    The youth-focused digital publisher said it will continue to operate during the bankruptcy process.
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  • @ITS.THE.NSA.
    @ITS.THE.NSA. Před rokem +92

    Hats off to the original VICE team who documented some of the most bizarre and unique experiences in the world without a care for money.

    • @vibhanshuchauhan3328
      @vibhanshuchauhan3328 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Or in recent time being a mouthpiece for anyone who has money

    • @davidkoba
      @davidkoba Před 9 měsíci +1

      They were indeed great in the beginning. Awesome documentaries. However they turned into absolute trash and I am glad they are gone.

  • @RobinSteiner
    @RobinSteiner Před rokem +706

    I remember subscribing to them in 2011, because of the content they put out back then. Slowly but surely, however they leaned into pop culture aspects more than real reporting and I fell off personally.

    • @nox4000
      @nox4000 Před rokem +50

      They had great documentaries ~10 years ago. The North Korea series, Cannibal Warlords, various drug documentaries, the list goes on. For me Vice died when Shane Smith transitioned out of the journalist position.

    • @CannabisTechLife
      @CannabisTechLife Před rokem +16

      Yes this was the true cause in my eyes. My partner and I used to watch vice all the time but then they started getting into random click batey videos and we dropped off.

    • @kyleklmondwa9042
      @kyleklmondwa9042 Před rokem

      VICE started becoming a "White Man BAD" "Republicans EVIL" skipping record for the past 6 yrs. Basically became CNN 2.0 but more Goofy.

    • @astroboirap
      @astroboirap Před rokem +1

      even taji?

    • @sdqsdq6274
      @sdqsdq6274 Před rokem

      huh ? subscribe to ?

  • @FatRonaldo1
    @FatRonaldo1 Před rokem +57

    The problem with Vice was for every 1 fantastic video and piece of reporting, there were 10 articles written by a blue haired student about why not shaving your armpits is the only way to bring down the patriarchy

    • @rollthetape88
      @rollthetape88 Před rokem +8

      every week an article on pegging that nobody was asking for...

    • @EbonySaints
      @EbonySaints Před rokem

      ​​@@rollthetape88 I mean... it is Vice. I don't go and read Breitbart and then complain that they talk about how guns and Jesus are essential to life. Different strokes and all that jazz...
      Also, wouldn't it be *not* shaving your armpits? I don't imagine how doing the typical everyday thing that women do is going to trigger anyone.

    • @FatRonaldo1
      @FatRonaldo1 Před rokem +9

      @@EbonySaints fair play I did mean to say not shaving your armpits, but the point stands that the majority of the articles on vice were absolute tripe, with a few gems sprinkled in

    • @boom8906
      @boom8906 Před rokem

      ​@@FatRonaldo1 the original fat Ronaldo probably would say the same 😂😂

  • @cannabistalk4164
    @cannabistalk4164 Před rokem +34

    Vice destroyed itself

    • @speterj
      @speterj Před rokem

      By telling the truth. Must be the Jews.

  • @R8V10
    @R8V10 Před rokem +9

    They started covering too much LGBT stuff and I think the Andrew Tate story was the nail in the coffin.

  • @OneLifeMan1
    @OneLifeMan1 Před rokem +94

    Had they never gone full BuzzFeed mode and all political and remained unbiased as they once were this probably wouldn’t have happened

    • @StonedIn0z
      @StonedIn0z Před rokem +4

      One of the founders is always political, look at his other creation (he also lost control of,) the proud boys..

    • @KToll5784
      @KToll5784 Před 3 měsíci

      @@StonedIn0zwhat does he have to do with the bankruptcy?
      Contemporary Vice tried to appeal to the “lifelong barista” target audience and it killed them. Cry harder.

  • @MavetSomnus
    @MavetSomnus Před rokem +44

    Vice was fire but fell off really hard around like 2015 (imo) it's not surprising this is finally happening

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem +1

      What exactly happened back then, since 'Willy Billy' was already an EP repping HBO before that.

    • @samuelbullard8978
      @samuelbullard8978 Před rokem +15

      Go woke go broke

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem +3

      Not enough of an improvement over that template #SPAM copy-pasta( granted that not-YELLING is a welcome change), Mr "@@samuelbullard8978".

    • @GodHandFemto
      @GodHandFemto Před rokem

      @@maazkalim It's what he said but more seriously, they were always pretty liberal/progressive but after the Trump election they just became insufferable with tons of actual fake news, overplaying news stories to make them seem more extreme, including using incredibly interpretative translations for their interviews. They're basically a mix of Buzzfeed + Infowars now.

  • @fubytv731
    @fubytv731 Před rokem +457

    This is so sad. I've been watching Vice for years. There's no other news outlet like them, and perhaps there will never be.

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem +15

      There is.
      You just have what's-called "fIrSt World myopia".

    • @ItzWinterDoll
      @ItzWinterDoll Před rokem

      Fr

    • @gjkaali8563
      @gjkaali8563 Před rokem +1

      Mannn😮😮😮

    • @TinLeadHammer
      @TinLeadHammer Před rokem +2

      There was Vanguard by Current TV.

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      Congrats!
      You've reached close enough, "@@TinLeadHammer".
      But alas.. Not as near enough, as well.

  • @sardendibs
    @sardendibs Před rokem +250

    I’ve been a media entrepreneur for 20 years, and the problem is not, as Chris Harris says, that “everyone can broadcast to anyone” on social media. And there’s actually quite a lot of money in journalism. The problem is 1) Advertising has moved to Google and Facebook since they offer better targetting and a one-stop for advertisers. 2) Because the internet was brand new in the 90s, no one could really charge for content initially, and a culture of free digital content took roots with media users. It is finally changing, and paywalls are becoming acceptable, but it’s a long process. 3) A widespread system for micropayments is still missing from the internet. Online transactions are still expensive and cumbersome, so a media outlet can’t, say, charge 20p for you to read an article or watch a Vice documentary. The subscription model rules, and it favours a few bigger outlets.

    • @xmurisfurderx
      @xmurisfurderx Před rokem +32

      You need to get this idea out of your head that paywalls are ever going to work they're not going to save your career or in any way restore the old monetization models

    • @stevenobinator2229
      @stevenobinator2229 Před rokem +15

      GO WOKE GO BROKE

    • @amandahugenkiss
      @amandahugenkiss Před rokem

      @@stevenobinator2229 GO FASCIST, PAY YOUR TAXES. Traitor. Your mother must be so ashamed of you. You bring great embarrassment and shame to your family.

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem +1

      Chris Hayes said something like "there's quite a lot of money in relaying information"?

    • @sardendibs
      @sardendibs Před rokem +3

      @@xmurisfurderx Thanks for the insights, but that is very wrong. My company's paywall is funding our operations, just as they are funding many other media outlets. They work best for verticals but can also work for general media of a certain quality. To an extent, the old model has indeed been restored. People are increasingly willing to pay for quality content - not least because of the poor quality of most ad-funded content.

  • @Taiiena
    @Taiiena Před rokem +276

    They were a platform for a lot of stories / information I would never normally engage with but was glad to be exposed to

    • @danielhorritz7986
      @danielhorritz7986 Před rokem +2

      They interviewed me. Eh. They were very sensational.

    • @d1tto232
      @d1tto232 Před rokem +1

      They were not different than 24 hours on his prime but now for the new generation of young people but it was annoyed how hard they hyped their stories

    • @Telencephelon
      @Telencephelon Před rokem +1

      Well said. I concur

    • @internethardcase
      @internethardcase Před rokem +1

      Like what? Hearing about people eating their own vagina fluids? They had some good documentaries like a decade ago, but they quickly fell to pop culture and biased political infotainment. It won't be missed, hence why it's going bankrupt.

    • @karankadam5664
      @karankadam5664 Před rokem +3

      Go woke go broke

  • @AkhyansuPattnaik
    @AkhyansuPattnaik Před rokem +205

    I was really loving vice & their adventurous style of reporting. They certainly unearthed a lot of ground level truths which legacy media would either have ignored or would haven't reported with that much alacrity. Unfortunately new age media platforms don't have deep pockets which traditional media houses enjoy & use to tide over rough patches. Also the proximity to status quo establishments which legacy media houses have built over the years allows their sustenance while the lack of that proximity, kind of denies a safety blanket for these new age reporting groups.

    • @sidg856
      @sidg856 Před rokem +4

      librandu mil gya bhai log

    • @dramacritic
      @dramacritic Před rokem

      @@sidg856 abi bhakt tu indian media ki youtube channel per jaker upani librandu vali bakvas hag yi jaga ajad soch valo ki liya hai

    • @Micfri300
      @Micfri300 Před rokem +1

      Apart from war of drugs video they did their recent content was utter garbage.

    • @oo--7714
      @oo--7714 Před rokem +4

      ​​@@Micfri300 it is fine, it' better than most news on youtube which is just people reguritating articles and making essays.

    • @Micfri300
      @Micfri300 Před rokem

      @@oo--7714 making essays? Yeah people who have degrees in politics actually using the Internet to give knowledge to others.
      Compared to i took drugs and this happened.
      I understand most people have limited intelligence but how vice does it is really insulting.

  • @kyzr666
    @kyzr666 Před rokem +46

    Shock by the news. VICE is one of my favorite news program. Far better than the normal ones. Their documentaries on the underground world are super interesting and helps you understand the complexities of the world.

    • @James-ds5zq
      @James-ds5zq Před rokem +6

      They’re extremely biased now

    • @deeznutz8320
      @deeznutz8320 Před rokem +1

      @@James-ds5zq They are straight propaganda

    • @daan260
      @daan260 Před 10 měsíci

      they used to be like that and that's what made them succesfull. However, they went full on woke and they deserve this bankruptcy because of it

  • @mactheknife7049
    @mactheknife7049 Před rokem +116

    There isn't enough money in *news* anymore, because you have to compete with "infotainment."

    • @brianbassett4379
      @brianbassett4379 Před rokem +12

      *LOL!* You think Vice had anything to do with "news"?

    • @radjalomas8854
      @radjalomas8854 Před rokem +12

      @@brianbassett4379 you obviously haven't watched their reporting from the field. That was real journalism, but yea, the website and SM side of Vice was pretty shitty though, just as clickbaity as the rest of them.

    • @jntj3007
      @jntj3007 Před rokem

      @@brianbassett4379 LOL!

    • @ReflectedMiles
      @ReflectedMiles Před rokem

      ....regarding which, these companies have often had a confused, hybrid sort of product, and this resulted from an even more indefinite business model. I have been surprised and saddened for decades at how badly traditional media has gotten significant aspects of stories wrong that I had personal involvement in and knowledge of, and then when the alt media companies came along (including the echo-chamber political media serving Russian and other interests vested in division and the decline of Western democracy), the problem got dramatically worse and scaled-up rather than better. Those like VICE would cover some important subjects for reporting that often had little attention paid to them otherwise, but great care with verified, factual detail and multiple perspectives being included is the hard part and would get placed somewhere under production values as priorities. This was especially painful when covering highly technical subjects where it was obvious that no one involved in creating the story knew enough to avoid looking ignorant. It has not been as much good journalism as it could have been.

    • @chinguunerdenebadrakh7022
      @chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 Před rokem +3

      @@brianbassett4379 I don't think any other news media would have had the balls to question the Azerbaijani dictator to his face about his actions in a conflict zone. Their interview with Aliyev was great. Their on the ground coverage of conflicts from Ukraine to Palestine have been absolutely phenomenal.

  • @sketti2331
    @sketti2331 Před rokem +10

    Vice when downhill after the ownership switch in 2016. They lost the spark then, there are much better outlets nowadays

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      {Only-&-only to "the OP" & those who "👍" their parent-comment till the time of successful-posting of this reply:
      }What was the “switch”?
      Be precise and thorough.
      In as many words as you may require.

  • @Candy.A.
    @Candy.A. Před rokem +358

    I absolutely love VICE, they give an international and fresh lens to important issues. Damn the power of the dollar.

    • @stevenobinator2229
      @stevenobinator2229 Před rokem +69

      GO WOKE GO BROKE

    • @richardv9648
      @richardv9648 Před rokem +1

      I used to like VIce. I subscribed to their youtube channel when they had less than 50K followers. But somewhere after Obama's re-election i found them to be hiding truth than actually bringing it to light. Their coverage of war in Syria and the Assad must go narrative speaks volumes.

    • @palmshoot
      @palmshoot Před rokem +5

      @@___beyondhorizon4664 Vice was a hybrid of DW and Ozy.

    • @asphyxiafeeling
      @asphyxiafeeling Před rokem +18

      They did good international content but the rest of the company was a cesspool. Good riddance

    • @johnl.7754
      @johnl.7754 Před rokem +4

      It has nothing to do with the Dollar if their expenses/income was in Euro, Yuan, Pound, bitcoin….it would be the same result

  • @gmathieson7184
    @gmathieson7184 Před rokem +8

    Vice went woke and paid the price.

  • @richarddelconnor
    @richarddelconnor Před rokem +194

    I just watched a Vice special show. I’m disappointed to see them go. I like their simple gorilla style and honesty, which seems to breathe freely when you’re not owned by the largest corporations in the world.

  • @britishthought4018
    @britishthought4018 Před rokem +70

    Its a bit of a shame.

  • @koshisunuwarrai
    @koshisunuwarrai Před rokem +44

    Vice Documentary and news is unparalleled to most news media brands.
    Thank you Vice team and Journalists for your amazing work.

  • @williamhornabrook8081
    @williamhornabrook8081 Před rokem +206

    That sucks :( There were lots of good shows and docos on Vice over the years.
    I hope the people that work there can land on their feet OK.

    • @Dukers2300
      @Dukers2300 Před rokem +11

      I really miss their quality reporting from their earlier years, especially Simon’s trip to Crimea when that was happening. In retrospect, that was the first stage of our current conflict… he was very bold to cover that story.
      I’m sure the people who brought Vice down to its current level of bland drivel will find roles being equally as valuable elsewhere.

    • @RM-jb2bv
      @RM-jb2bv Před rokem +3

      They can all learn to weld

    • @kv4648
      @kv4648 Před rokem +5

      ​@@RM-jb2bv more efficient to transfer their previous skills into another journalist job

    • @fargoth391
      @fargoth391 Před rokem +3

      @@RM-jb2bv why would they learn another dying job?

    • @stevenobinator2229
      @stevenobinator2229 Před rokem +7

      GO WOKE GO BROKE

  • @MrKenng123
    @MrKenng123 Před rokem +27

    Looks like this is just a tip of the iceberg, loads of companies are waiting to file for bankruptcy soon. 😢

    • @vanguard.aggressor
      @vanguard.aggressor Před rokem +1

      Get woke, be broke

    • @EbonySaints
      @EbonySaints Před rokem +1

      The Intercept and Vox are on the chopping block next if the former's desperate emails are anything to go by. It will be good riddance for them after canning Glenn and taking down the Snowden archives, not to mention the terrible opsec over the years. Vox I'm less certain about, but given their model resembles that of Buzzfeed and Vice, but tamer and considerably more patronizing, I can't imagine them surviving this culling.

  • @dabblerdeluxe775
    @dabblerdeluxe775 Před rokem +77

    I fell off from vice after they went all buzzfeed but damn in their prime they were bold .

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem +3

      You are confusing your preferences with financial-performance.

    • @cowboyuniverse7258
      @cowboyuniverse7258 Před rokem +3

      When did buzz feed report cartel drug lords in 2022?

    • @ryanryan539
      @ryanryan539 Před rokem +10

      Agree. They decided to abandon honest journalism and once great content for cheap limited-time clickbait and partisan PC stories

    • @solrhopalocera5704
      @solrhopalocera5704 Před rokem +5

      @@maazkalim people's preferences are what determine a media companies financial performance

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      That depends, "@@solrhopalocera5704".

  • @nsp477
    @nsp477 Před rokem +10

    The host could at least try to hide that he's having a blast with Vice's bankruptcy. His sarcastic grin has "I told you, b!tch" written all over. Not that I have any horse running in that race, but you know, professionalism and so on.

  • @josiahgodwin7410
    @josiahgodwin7410 Před rokem +6

    As soon as they started fundraising in there videos I knew something was up.. this is really sad and I hope they can still continue giving us exceptional content whatever the outcome

  • @therakshasan8547
    @therakshasan8547 Před rokem +79

    Vice started out as a truth speaking edgy news. Then they changed over to the opposite , and are going broke . Makes sense to me .

    • @narata1541
      @narata1541 Před rokem +3

      True, the reason why I watched it was because they were the only news show that cursed, which showed they were edgy and for adults. I stopped watching them when they censored the swear words. Now I watch other CZcamsrs who swear, as it is more real than other shows.

    • @justice_crash2521
      @justice_crash2521 Před rokem +1

      Exactly! The epitome of “why fix when its not broken”

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      The fuq, "@@narata1541"???

    • @hassyg4083
      @hassyg4083 Před rokem +5

      became too much fake news

    • @mikewebber7553
      @mikewebber7553 Před rokem

      Go woke and go broke

  • @jungleboy1
    @jungleboy1 Před rokem +17

    Vice was good once upon a time. I remember the Russian Roulette series with Simon Ostrovsky.... They did some other series sending reporters in deep into warzones. After a while they did some interesting stories, a little like Louis Theroux esq.
    Few years back they changed and the content became really shit.

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    @noralarry9103 Před rokem +115

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  • @nadiabairamis3854
    @nadiabairamis3854 Před rokem +32

    I am devastated, VICE did some amazing reporting and they covered stories no one else was looking at. I hope they somehow survive this and continue. Unfortunately the big established media could never be as flexible, innovative or uncompromising in their reporting. It is just not structurally possible.. too much red tape and politics.

    • @petergriffin8969
      @petergriffin8969 Před rokem

      What are you talking about vice became an overtly biased radical progressive propaganda outlet, that’s why they failed

    • @hught6885
      @hught6885 Před rokem

      But Vice started being more and more “Woke” and soon stop offering fair independent coverage, and starting a political narrative as a media company. And this turned off a lot of people as traditional media already was pushing the “woke” narrative

  • @willienelsongonzalez4609
    @willienelsongonzalez4609 Před rokem +102

    Damned shame that Vice and Motherboard have gone bankrupt. As folks will know, their content was a breath of fresh air! Despise their bankruptcy, I hope they’re able to continue in some form.

    • @ehrgeiz5649
      @ehrgeiz5649 Před rokem +9

      If they are bankrupt while 2 years ago were worth billions... Then they certainly were not doing very well.

    • @SyntaxErr19287
      @SyntaxErr19287 Před rokem +16

      A breathe of fresh air 10 years ago yeah

    • @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602
      @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602 Před rokem +4

      They peaked in 2014

    • @redpilledfag
      @redpilledfag Před rokem

      Of course you woketards would want vice to continue their lies lol

    • @petergriffin8969
      @petergriffin8969 Před rokem

      Their radical left bias ran it into the ground hahaha

  • @Runeansfelt
    @Runeansfelt Před rokem +45

    Vice news is genius. I love their reporting and it would be a giant loss if they're not part of the news media companies in the way they're organized as is now.
    I really hope they can continue their work and reporting. It really is great stuff they're making.

    • @SomeRandomGuy121
      @SomeRandomGuy121 Před rokem

      Its actually overall all round prettey dumb, but still, they do some good stories.

    • @HaughtKarl-jx9vr
      @HaughtKarl-jx9vr Před 8 měsíci +1

      It was decent until the became "woke."

  • @Jomaro7
    @Jomaro7 Před rokem +1

    Man , their documentaries are my favorite. Sad to hear about this

  • @kazkazimierz1742
    @kazkazimierz1742 Před rokem +1

    I am very sorry to see them go.

  • @thechosenwon6762
    @thechosenwon6762 Před rokem +13

    Go woke go broke

  • @pattirockgarden4423
    @pattirockgarden4423 Před rokem +12

    Twitter refusing to allow links to the independent news medias.

    • @vanguard.aggressor
      @vanguard.aggressor Před rokem +1

      Cry baby, cry.

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      ...On what, oligarchy preferring for-profit "news"-publishers, Mr "@@vanguard.aggressor"?

    • @shreekantkumarsahu9570
      @shreekantkumarsahu9570 Před rokem +1

      LIKE THEN LEFTWING TERRORIST MIDDLE LEG SUCKER TWITTER DOGS BANNED NEW YORK POST ARTICLE ON BRENDON LITTEL SON'S HUNTER BIDEN NEWS

    • @vanguard.aggressor
      @vanguard.aggressor Před rokem

      @@maazkalim I love your stalinist's point of view, when starts to send dissident people to the gulags?, por cierto, es usted un racista, un imperialista americano, shame on you!!!!

  • @kicapanmanis1060
    @kicapanmanis1060 Před rokem +4

    If you can't monetize a "successful" product, then it wasn't really successful to begin with.

  • @brianmcdowell6066
    @brianmcdowell6066 Před rokem +9

    Vice was awesome. They had a completely different way of approaching journalism. The Vice guide to North Korea was my favorite. It was doomed the moment shane smith left. RIP vice.

  • @thewirah1
    @thewirah1 Před rokem +15

    Field journalism is not where the money is at. You can make more money in media sitting on a couch saying whatever comes to your mind in front of a camera.

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      Hiya! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
      You barely scratched-the-surface, but as they say: Something is better than nothing. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @xcjsmith5310
    @xcjsmith5310 Před rokem +3

    People here so sympathetic to Vice, true that their past video and journalism is top notch but now Vice had fall into talking more about US wokeism

  • @thesigmasystems
    @thesigmasystems Před rokem +11

    Andrew Tate is so happy for this news

    • @thestrain.
      @thestrain. Před rokem +1

      I hope he will return to prison.

    • @itsme5562
      @itsme5562 Před rokem +1

      @@thestrain. Why?

    • @speterj
      @speterj Před rokem +1

      @@itsme5562 because he is a raper

  • @malikaivillatte9065
    @malikaivillatte9065 Před rokem +1

    The nostalgia from I get from some vice documentaries is crazy there will never be anything like vice again

  • @radjalomas8854
    @radjalomas8854 Před rokem +60

    RIP Vice, no one else was sending reporters in the field like that.
    Guess we're stuck with shitertainment now!

    • @MOCHI-ek6rc
      @MOCHI-ek6rc Před rokem +6

      They were promoting homosexuality.

    • @_o..o_1871
      @_o..o_1871 Před rokem +10

      @@MOCHI-ek6rc So what? Are you homophobic?

    • @EbonySaints
      @EbonySaints Před rokem

      Al-Jazeera does on the ground coverage, but obviously you'll have to deal with the fact that Qatar is a black hole that does no wrong and that -Occupied Palestine- Israel is pure evil.

    • @Dagoth_Ur_1
      @Dagoth_Ur_1 Před 9 měsíci

      They were promoting far-left ideology. Good they have gone bankrupt.

  • @TruckerJacket
    @TruckerJacket Před rokem +4

    Good to see a respectful assessment of the challenge facing vice

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      Not that the British State broadcaster has got much of a choice.

  • @naszafar8658
    @naszafar8658 Před rokem +1

    Don't mind me. I'm just here for the tears.

  • @vladsnape6408
    @vladsnape6408 Před rokem +4

    A company with dubious journalistic integrity and ethics, specialising in puff pieces - it is good that they have gone down. Speaking of ethics, perhaps we should be referring to the BBC as "NYT East", given the BBC's reliance on NYT "reporting" and constantly acting as the propaganda mouthpiece of the US Democrats.

  • @danielcaceres9971
    @danielcaceres9971 Před rokem +70

    They were doing actual reporting, better than most legacy outlets

    • @marshhen
      @marshhen Před rokem +8

      As this rambling vague, low of facts coverage we just watched demonstrates.

    • @daniyalbbd5281
      @daniyalbbd5281 Před rokem +5

      Go woke go broke

    • @poppinc8145
      @poppinc8145 Před rokem +2

      Until a few years ago, that is.

    • @danielcaceres9971
      @danielcaceres9971 Před rokem

      @@daniyalbbd5281 how sad it must be that real reporting seems like something of an ideology for you. If you actually knew real news from Twitter news, you would see that Vice did not take roles and it stuck to real reporting, even if that meant hurting left or right ideology. Just so happens, your dumb side is mostly on the wrong and you are too scared to accept it

    • @quissbird-10
      @quissbird-10 Před 9 měsíci

      "Actual reporting". Daniel you are delusional.

  • @xandr13
    @xandr13 Před rokem +7

    At some point Vice did start to spin out so much bullshit content that one was beginning to wonder how was this viable. I guess we now know it's not. Should've had more focus on what they're best at - gonzo reporting from active conflicts and the underworld, instead of reviewing 30 types of noodles from some japanese vending machine.

  • @scarsvictor5931
    @scarsvictor5931 Před rokem +1

    it hurts a lot to see vice news to be facing such crisis

  • @bhew7409
    @bhew7409 Před rokem +3

    I watched a lot of Vice when it had cool indi documentaries on. For me, it sold out when it went to TV and all of a sudden the content seemed to go for quantity over quality.

  • @Astuar
    @Astuar Před rokem +3

    Though I lost my interest to the majority of topics Vice tried to cover, but I will never forget their amazing on ground reporting and ivestigations.

  • @rabit818
    @rabit818 Před rokem +1

    Vice used to have a free magazine. Glossy, high quality, good content and great photography.

  • @xuem19
    @xuem19 Před rokem +1

    when their office in Brooklyn expanded in 2011, it wiped out a bunch of DIY-arts spaces

  • @thenegociater3387
    @thenegociater3387 Před rokem +28

    Vice initially offered a grungy, gritty take on little covered world events but branched into types of journalism and tilts which heavily diluted their image as they tried to tap into more mainstream sensibilities. It will never be the same. Vice wasn't meant to be a balancing act teetering to the left while juggling trendy topics, it was meant to be so far up in the trenches with death, conflict, human suffering that the sounds of the fighting and explosions drowned out the politics.

  • @SirKasey
    @SirKasey Před rokem +4

    Kinda sad but not surprised. I'll miss the sense of adventure some of their documentaries had, such as Shane Smith's siberian train journey to uncover North Korean work camps. I'll also miss a lot of Isobel Yeung's work, as she was a very talented journalist. It's bittersweet to see times change.

  • @conorbarry1928
    @conorbarry1928 Před rokem +2

    I'm sure their horoscope department saw it coming

  • @palapentz6471
    @palapentz6471 Před rokem

    this is so sad. ive been watching both specially Vice for yearsssss

  • @jhykobz1yq
    @jhykobz1yq Před rokem +9

    Vice should unironically cover their own bankruptcy and tell the story of the Shane Smith selling out and Fox bleeding out their soul

    • @avrahamvidal4255
      @avrahamvidal4255 Před rokem

      LOL 😂

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      FOX® “bleeding out their soul” is relevant, how?
      Also..
      Who did Mr Shane "crass-tongued pro" Smith exactly “sold out to”?

    • @EbonySaints
      @EbonySaints Před rokem

      ngl, that would be a cool send-off.

  • @HistoryonYouTube
    @HistoryonYouTube Před rokem +3

    I am really sad to learn this, it is a bit of a shock for me. I thought that they might be over extending themselves. Like with the presenter, for me it was Crimea 2014 and the ground breaking journalism of Szymon Ostrovski for example.

    • @walkermorgan1710
      @walkermorgan1710 Před rokem

      excellent series i remember watching in the basement of my college apartment

  • @heatrayzvideo3007
    @heatrayzvideo3007 Před rokem +3

    Young people now don't want news they want memes and to be told what to think.

  • @imtiazbee
    @imtiazbee Před rokem +16

    I love Vice & Vice news. Means I Absolutely Love them. Love the way they works, the content they make, the facts and ground truth the put out to the world and damn their courage. They did an absolutely amazing job. I am a huge fan of Vice. But never saw this coming. I'm deeply saddened.

    • @Czybmnxn
      @Czybmnxn Před rokem

      They became way too woke, so the rest of the world gets fed up of them.

    • @akhisunjeya9935
      @akhisunjeya9935 Před rokem

      Being too political and too biased is what led to this. One of the reasons CZcams removed the dislike button was so that people and networks like Vice could continue lying to the average listener who doesnt have one clue how to think Autonomously but thinks Vice videos are cool and "Refreshing". Ive been seeing this coming from Vice for the last few months, Vice's social media presence REALLY SUCKS BAD.

  • @waterbabe415
    @waterbabe415 Před rokem

    I am so shock because I love vice’s documentaries!!!

  • @RozzWilliamsScholarsSociety

    Vice tried contacting us almost a decade ago trying to do a video on Christian Death. They looked so hip-hop and and poppy in their gimmick and marketting - we promptly ignored them and their continued e-mails.

  • @cucumbaboi2872
    @cucumbaboi2872 Před rokem +3

    That's good news. They were getting too biased with their reports.

  • @zombl337og
    @zombl337og Před rokem +5

    ashame, but for me they were hit or miss from the beginning and never truly took hold

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      “Ashame[ _sic_ ]” of what?
      Are you sure you weren't referring to yourselves?

    • @zombl337og
      @zombl337og Před rokem

      @@maazkalim f u talkin bout bruh

  • @adamali3464
    @adamali3464 Před rokem

    I'm glad these sort of channel's go back curpt

  • @Technicalstockmarket12

    Sad to see this happen

  • @skullburnerhenderson
    @skullburnerhenderson Před rokem +15

    shame, their war coverage is always top notch

  • @sanwellbeatz1630
    @sanwellbeatz1630 Před rokem +9

    This is what happens when you spew propaganda instead of facts

  • @odepoikanen
    @odepoikanen Před rokem

    I hope all the material, the content they have covered will not just get deleted from online.

  • @Luna.3.3.3
    @Luna.3.3.3 Před rokem

    Very sad day. I've been watching Vice for years.💔

  • @Professional_Youtube_Commenter

    vice lost because they just weren';t producing content quick enough to get people going back. They didn't place ads like the tacky mainstream channels. they did paid editorials, so they'll make a article or video around giving a brand exposure.
    websites like daily mail gets tonnes of returning visitors and a lot of shares, they can basically gossip about latest influncer gossips and stuff, make a good headline and get people in. Vice was trying to do higher quality stuff and just couldn't compete for people's attention. Add to that, a lot of stuff they were product was not for mass consumption but for fringe audiences.

    • @condotiero860
      @condotiero860 Před rokem +6

      confirmation bias. I agree.
      I got a bit of nostalgia when i saw VICE using their old longform format.
      But it just didn't hit the same
      You can see the breakage, from reports seeming haphazardly edited, to well crafted narratives with ulterior motives.
      Honestly, my two cents... their audience got old. Young impressionable millennials are in their 30s now; got that MBA, double masters, with a minor in history... and they know better than to get their news from VICE.
      VICE got outclassed. Be honest, journo degree isnt hard. Which is competing with history majors and econ majors for attention. I dont care what some soyboy thinks about Ukraine. I need facts, not a propaganda piece.
      If i was VICE Executive Officer... i'd have taught my staff Spanish.
      This would all be tragic, if it wasn't poetic justice. Couldn't have happened to a better company.
      Vice is that teacher that dropped your lowest homework and curved your grades. Millennials are realizing that's why they lose to the kid that took college calc in high school. Facts matter, reality has a low tolerance for bulllshit.
      TL;DR: if you stopped watching VICE rn, would you miss anything that you couldnt get anywhere else? I meet professors, really cool dudes, too shy to stand in front of a camera, but give him burger and five Heinekens, and he can condense his entire semester long course in 5 hours. All of it peer reviewed.

    • @abolishthe19thamendment
      @abolishthe19thamendment Před rokem +7

      You're wrong actually, they went woke, and went broke.

    • @craigboden9455
      @craigboden9455 Před rokem

      The daily mail is just as bad. One day they're saying eggs are good for you and the next they're saying eggs kill you. All these companies are the same. They will lie to you to make their money. Can't trust any of them. Vice deserves it as well after what they did to the tate brothers.

  • @infernogamers168
    @infernogamers168 Před rokem +7

    Go woke go broke….

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 Před rokem +2

    They did some great reporting.

    • @djbbdfggh
      @djbbdfggh Před rokem +3

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @sarcasmo57
      @sarcasmo57 Před rokem +2

      @@djbbdfggh Not saying it was all gold.

  • @sausagefingers714
    @sausagefingers714 Před rokem +1

    looking forward to watching a vice documentary about it

  • @amgry5461
    @amgry5461 Před rokem +4

    Well it's down to the decline in both quantity and quality of content

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      Are you one of those cable-news pundits from FOX® Business or globally-accessible CNBC® network?

  • @calvinduke4810
    @calvinduke4810 Před rokem +6

    They got too woke

  • @MayorSom
    @MayorSom Před rokem

    It’s the VC treadmill. It’s just simply not compatible with the rate of return they were expecting

  • @Kosmonooit
    @Kosmonooit Před rokem +1

    The Murdoch deal was the beginning of the end ... I found them back in the day before CZcams, Shane's trip to the DPRK was the stuff of legends

  • @NicksPinoy
    @NicksPinoy Před rokem +10

    Vice was great back in the day and I loved how personal and passionate their journalism was. You could tell the journalists were passionate because they would go to such lengths and put themselves into danger just to get to the truth. My problem, however, was that they became too radical and even extreme left-leaning...to the point they just spread activism rather than the objective truth. It was all about 'feelings' rather than actual news reporting. I'm not sad they failed, I'm happy that such a media corporation spreading such useless stuff is failing.

  • @josephweber4387
    @josephweber4387 Před rokem +3

    Vice was great, went wokeish and lost most people including me, it’s not rocket science to figure out what happened

  • @LibrasLion
    @LibrasLion Před rokem +1

    That’s pretty damn sad.

  • @davewilliam5228
    @davewilliam5228 Před rokem +2

    SLOW DOWN GLOBAL WARMING
    1. USE SOLAR PANELS.
    2. USE ELECTRIC CAR'S OR USE BIKE'S.
    3. TURN OFF TELEVISION, TURN OFF LIGHT BUB'S AND TURN OFF PHONE'S.
    4. REUSE, REDUCE AND RECYCLE.
    5. GET FACTORIES THAT CAUSE POLLUTION TO STOP CAUSE POLLUTION.

  • @user-hn6xs6yk5t
    @user-hn6xs6yk5t Před rokem +12

    Really hope the legacy lives on

    • @maazkalim
      @maazkalim Před rokem

      Their “legacy” is already based off on something else's, their hitherto-uncredited spiritual-ancestor ever since one of the Occidental Messiahs in "iHindoo IT Cell", Gavin McInnes( no salutation!) was booted-out - leading way to their reincarnation in 2007-ish.

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  • @marcd2743
    @marcd2743 Před rokem +5

    Vice was really good in their inception but became a version of Buzzfeed/Vox and went totally woke, and the quality of their content took a steep dive.

  • @Monkey_D_Luffy56
    @Monkey_D_Luffy56 Před rokem +1

    Vice didn't filter anything and that's why people loved them

  • @dtir
    @dtir Před rokem +1

    I am very sorry to see Vice filing for bankruptcy. Such a great content is now gone for good.

  • @lvlinda6
    @lvlinda6 Před rokem +10

    My heart is breaking. VICE News has always brought us honest and non-biased news.

  • @louis8935
    @louis8935 Před rokem +3

    Vice went so woke

  • @NiceOneBroHAHA
    @NiceOneBroHAHA Před 6 měsíci +2

    Sad to see. The original creators made such great content and it was real groundbreaking journalism. Now they create content without fact checking or have certain narratives they try to push. Hard to support something that just doesn't have the content or credibility it used to...

  • @CMB21497
    @CMB21497 Před rokem +2

    Although I liked their foreign journalism, the domestic journalism went way too heavy on pushing an agenda. I just think people are sick of their news pushing any agenda for that matter.

  • @sinlokemp
    @sinlokemp Před rokem +6

    The problem was the woke content. I was an early Vice fan and loved their content but they started preaching and feeding their woke narratives and that’s when they lost a lot of their genuine fans.

  • @Skybar23
    @Skybar23 Před rokem +4

    What a shame!!!...,loved the investigative journalism they provided on topics and issue that mainstream news media wouldnt cover.

  • @Superratis
    @Superratis Před rokem +1

    I used to read their magazines and watch their docs but once they sold, they became garbage.

  • @ratuls21
    @ratuls21 Před rokem

    I am a regular Audience Of Vice. They are one of a kind media outlet. Can't imagine them shutting down.

  • @ryanrandall1727
    @ryanrandall1727 Před rokem +9

    Andrew Tate must be LOVING this 😂

  • @daveoc5770
    @daveoc5770 Před rokem +4

    Motherboard was just a hate outlet and vice became just as ignorant when they lost gavin

    • @operator9858
      @operator9858 Před rokem +2

      Says the guy with a german hate symbol as his avatar? 😂😂

    • @daveoc5770
      @daveoc5770 Před rokem +3

      @@operator9858 I'm glad you recognise it's a German hate symbol that the Ukrainian army use

  • @miltononyango
    @miltononyango Před rokem +1

    sad to see vice go

  • @GeorgesThoughts
    @GeorgesThoughts Před rokem +1

    they did make the best news doc's many years ago, it will come back just needs to be alot smaller

  • @nellytann2790
    @nellytann2790 Před rokem +4

    they have great resources and cover topics other media can't, its unfortunate to say but they did their best.

  • @cicada3301dash
    @cicada3301dash Před rokem +1

    whoaaa i was waiting when is it coming

  • @DerekDAngel
    @DerekDAngel Před rokem +5

    They started off as an incredible news channel and maintained a great reputation in the consumer news community, but eventually they started to fall off and you could tell that a lot of their funding was swaying them "too far left" which turned their news into a bias source of information. Overall, I could definitely see this coming because they were an independent news organization and after a while of being directed by their investors to do irrelevant news topics, they lost viewers.
    You can't just have any old investor come in and run your news channel. If you're being funded to cover stories that don't relate to what your channel represents, then you're self-sabotaging your own organization at that point.