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Chalking the layoffs up to a broader restructuring of the company in the face of market changes, as well as a failure to hit revenue goals
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{{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help){{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Fandom's CEO Perkins Miller is stepping down (via The Verge) after an epic six-year run that included the purchase of Metacritic, several rounds of painful cuts across sites like GameSpot, and the ongoing enshittification of the Fandom wiki pages.
Fandom's ad business faced scrutiny following a 2024 analytics report that questioned the brand safety of some of the content the company was running ads against across its user-generated wiki pages.
Fandom's video advertisements had been unpopular, and the wiki did not allow contributors to add custom code to the pages. Some users also accused the Yu-Gi-Oh Wiki of "stealing" videos from the fan community.
Fandom wikis tend to be saddled with enough ads that they become slow to load, particularly on mobile, with autoplay videos taking up half the screen—and that's when they load in after a delay, partially resetting the page.
Conflict between Fandom and the opinionated editors of Giant Bomb arose this year when the publication of new content was put on hold as part of a "strategic reset and realignment" of Fandom's brands.
{{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help){{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)I'm actively engaged. I take it very seriously. I work very hard every day to try to make sure that we build a good platform that people can use, that's stable and has great tools. And I think we're someplace that I think is really community-focused, and I think we've got the right values. So I really take it seriously if a community says, "Look, we're going to go somewhere else."
Any internet search for "fandom ads" yields results replete with complaints from various communities and message boards about how intensely Fandom has commercialized the labor of thousands of fans
On his Last of the Nintendogs podcast following the removal, Giant Bomb staff member Jeff Grubb said that while the decision to remove the episode wasn't his decision, the decision to keep it down was.
I'm actively engaged. I take it very seriously. I work very hard every day to try to make sure that we build a good platform that people can use, that's stable and has great tools. And I think we're someplace that I think is really community-focused, and I think we've got the right values. So I really take it seriously if a community says, "Look, we're going to go somewhere else."
Once the decision was made, the site was taken down with no consultation or warning given to the site's staff, who had thought they were in compliance.
Once the decision was made, the site was taken down with no consultation or warning given to the site's staff, who had thought they were in compliance.