Polygon has been sold to Valent--as reported with concern by many gaming sites, except, funny enough, Polygon itself. Polygon has been around since 2012, doing fantastic journalism on video-game and pop culture. Valnet runs a bunch of, "Content aggregators," which is a nice way of saying clickbait slop such as Screen Rant, Game Rant, Comic Book Resources and the like. You know when you see an article with an attention-grabbing headline like, "Fans distraught this beloved show is canceled after one season," and then you have to scroll through half the article to actually find out what the show in question is? Yeah, those kinds of sites. These are the sites where half the articles read as if written by AI, and the other half seem like they were scribbled out by a caffeine-addled third-grader desperate to complete an assignment before it's due in 15 minutes.
Polygon made articles, and these sites make content--there is a big difference. At least, there was. Now, Polygon has been hit with mass layoffs, and everyone seems unhappy with how this all went down, except Valnet, which now has another site it can utilize to put out garbage pieces. I mean, maybe Polygon will survive as we know it in some fashion and not become a shadow of its former self (much like Comic Book Resources did). That said, there are occasions where looking on the bright side is foolish because sometimes optimism spells disaster. This may be one of those times.
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