Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "Vice and Motherboard owner files for bankruptcy - BBC News" video.

  1.  @sardendibs  : Vice CAN NOT.. be in the same level as those companies.... "The Times in the UK has more than 400,000 digital-only subscribers. Financial Times has more than 1 million. Washington Post has 3 million" Dream on. Behind them are powerful actual analytics... and they are actually bonded to the companies that list in exchanges. Why should Vice behave this way ? What they should've done, is to stick to the online, semi digital.. and also PRINT copies... !!!!!! Lots of copies were printed before.. and it is the "free digital version" that individual could get for free, when they buy the digital copy. In a world whereby online safety is paramount... for Vice to earn money, they SHOULD also hold a "block off adverts" option, when their readers buy an actual paper copy. THAT should be their "freebie".... or unique selling point. To be able to read a piece of news, in PEACE... and in SAFETY !!!!!! ...... You really have a lot of people now participating in goddamn cyber warefares online.. and individuals aren't even aware of this as well.. or at all.. Where do you go with this one then ?... I used to love reading Marie Claires'... or various publications, in the comfort of my own home. Detached from the internet. Even Monocle.. is making a decent and a nice comeback. I see them in all major decent coffee shops. i.e. Even the coffee shop charges enough to cover those magazines for free. So where are you going with this ? And even so many cities now do billboard advertisements too. It is everywhere... Some of the online digital companies, are indeed holding the share prices of certain companies, which we know.. but.... I mean... Some of it, it isn't as you assume. If anything, maybe they could use some of the data for book writings, or even fiction writings.. or movie scripts. We don't see that happening... Sell some of the stories to fiction writers and publishers.
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  2. Do you want to make money ? Sure.. do what UK publishings used to do, which is to give freebies away. So, try and give away either one month's free monthly fees.. or two toilet rolls or other. And charge people for the print version. I'd keep buying it. We used to have delivery boy or girl... Throwing papers to houses, and subscriptions this way. Sure... why not use this kind of thing again ? Use deliveroo... and deliver both milk, and papers/magazine/ online subscription (no ad zones).... etc etc. This was before the rise of GIS... which incorporated these so called "mega big data".. we don't mind if we rolled back those datas... actually. So... paper copies, it is. You also know that the world has lost it.. and that democracy is gone.. and that crimes are gone too... when basically "vigilante actions"... as in... "talking badly about somebody else, somewhere"... is an actual commerce... for money.. "stalk and tell the tale".... "kiss and tell"... or a...."provoke and react" then sell the story.... So much of this kind of thing happens today. Welcome to distopia.
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  3. They were doing oddball... occasional criminal cases.. to "warn others".. normally for new migrants, they would lap this up.. and then change their behaviours before getting themselves into trouble. So yeh.. to buy a "piece of legal advice".. is maybe why so many people like it. But for those of us who have lived, breathed, and read so many publications.. then no.. Oh no.
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  4. If you are from third world country, of COURSE.. you would... but for us in the First World country.. We have "BEEN THERE. DONE THAT".. many times over !
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  5. They way that Vice happened, kind of forced Facebook to turn into Meta... and THAT itself.. is just... sorry... but... that just puts everybody at risk. Which it IS doing.... What they should've done, is to BUY OUT those large tech companies. Or buy out their data centres or infrastructures? THAT should've been what happens.. but I bet they didn't do it. So.... This is just...
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  6. They did some nice things.. I didn't know about the Vice owning Buzz feed, that was funny. Or some of their articles there were. And then, some of the Vice's documentaries were. But I didn't like the Vice Asia... that looks more like an actual "lifestyle" brand.. than anything.. It is so ghetto'd that it is pretty surreal ???..... It's another typical...."tattoo, graffitti... skateboard...... drugs....".... But that was already covered, and been through HELL... AND back... into living life. In the UK, we have had indie websites like Urban75... and various publications like... ID... Bennetton's "Color".... (which I used to buy a LOT)..... And then Marie Claire as well.... I used to get so much of the female's issues via Marie Claire. So.... Maybe that was what went on behind the scenes in Canada.. but I have been through, that, been there, done that. And came out of it already. I still have old copies. So to me... I don't see them bringing anything new any more. Unless it is new readers... so.... Like most oldies. I listen to radio these days. Or mainstream media. Cos Vice have had its time, most possibly. UK had a lot of..... 18-30's young magazines... so..... Smash hits/Color/ID/Marie Claire/Face.... just a lot, a lot... If they had the guts. Then they should've poached some of the female magazines... and own them.. and transition into something else. And then split Facebook or Meta.... And then allow them to write some of the warzone stories from the female's perspectives. Cos that was what the whole 1990s.. were all about for us... when it was "that thing there"....
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