Satirical web site The Exhausting Instances (mainly punk and steel’s The Onion) has been bought by Sumerian Information. In accordance with an announcement from The Exhausting Instances and Exhausting Drive CEO and founder Matt Saincome issued on December 14, the 2 web sites will now have their very own print magazines, comedian e book collaborations, and animated variations of articles.
So we’ll see how that goes. I suppose this additionally is not too stunning contemplating The Exhausting Instances was having some financial issues earlier this year. Saincome‘s assertion is in full beneath.
“Excellent news! Exhausting Instances and Exhausting Drive at the moment are owned by Sumerian Leisure, who need to make animated variations of our headlines, print variations of our magazines (!), and comedian e book collabs with our favourite bands/video games,” wrote Saincome.
“Our workforce will stay in place, however be joined by all of Sumerian’s infrastructure to try this stuff. After we launched this factor 10 years in the past we thought solely a small group of our mates within the punk scene would get pleasure from it. It is really wild that our content material has been loved by so many individuals, together with individuals who made music or video games which can be so necessary to us.
“So thanks to everybody who has contributed jokes, shared a headline, and even simply took outing of their day to trace down the place I dwell and threaten to kill me as a result of we revealed a joke you did not like. You might be all equally necessary to me and I look ahead to persevering with to interact on this very regular world of on-line content material for one more 100 years.”
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