Mere days after I made a video about my feelings towards the death of Giant Bomb, the current Duders running the site – Jeff Grubb, Jeff Bakalar, Dan Ryckert and Jan Ochoa – announced at their PAX East panel today that Fandom has sold the site to them.
That’s right, Giant Bomb is now independent, creator owned and user funded.
This is a rare shining light in the current media hellscape where big corporations typically buy things just to run them into the ground. Fandom are still shit, but they’re a little less shit for doing this. Props to whomever it was at Fandom that allowed this to go through, because this is the best possible outcome for the site and the people who work there.
I can’t fully put into words how proud I am of these guys for pulling this off and I’m so happy for them and the future of the site. It truly is a lock down, baby.
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