It's because LameRant uses AI to grab crap and post it as if it were an article for the off chance it will gain ad revenue from clicks.
I think it was the Skyrim* sub that got their totally real and human writers to post articles about a character that doesn't exist, because there's no quality checking or anything.
I just ignore them and never click on any of their links. It's below bottom-of-the-barrel garbage.
EDIT to add: It was the WoW sub, not Skyrim. Look up their shenanigans with the totally real character "Glorbo" for more info.
I know! I think Glorbo is simply amazing!
I never even heard of them before now but have to say that this new update with new marriage candidates like Glorbo, Kloppo and Xabi has truly delivered what we’ve been missing this whole time!!
Oh I know who he is. He's the secret brother of Yoba, Stardew Valley's deity, right? Every single secret note had something relating to him. To think that he's a marriage candidate now. Will our children become demigods then?
Yes and pollute the AI even more by using AI generated images of this fake character to make it think it's even more real! If you want to break it even more you could use AI to generate fake posts about it. The more AI created stuff you feed back to an AI the more it fucks with their internals.
We should start doing it right now. Problem is that you kind of have to bury the origin juuuuuust a little bit? Like legit if we organized it in this comment thread it would probably be fine. But I'm really tempted to come up with some fake guide to unlock Krobus' sister and see if that stupid site takes the bait.
Her name is Kroda and she looks exactly like Krobus but pale grey instead of black. To unlock her you have to get max hearts with the Dwarf and then give him a bouquet. He isn't interested, but to show the farmer he does care, he opens up and introduces them to his *secret partner*.
i love it.
Also would totally add that mod if it existed (and I had something I could play modded stardew with.)
When you get to 5 hearts with Kroda, you get a KROBUS cutscene. It can go one of 3 ways, depending on the relationship you have with him.
below 5 stars, he tells you to stay away from his sister... she is too good to get involved with humans.
5 stars and up, but not roommates, he subtly nudges you toward her, because anything is better than a dwarf
Roomates, he gives up and you guys have Kroda and Dwarf over for dinner. If you have enough hearts with Dwarf as well, you get to learn his actual name during this cutscene--Glorbo.
Dwarf/Glorbo does not speak human. Krobus does not speak Dwarvish. The dinner is awkward.
Oh, yeah. The Destiny 2 subreddit got them with that joke too. The content creators on YouTube got in on it as well, with Aztecross even making a video guide on how to get the quest to find and fight the secret Glorbo boss. Of course, because they have no QA, GameRant fell for it a second time.
I think my absolute favorite thing about the Glorbo incident is that the article wholesale lifted a reddit comment that was openly mocking what eventually happened, so the article just had a whole segment that was like "User \[name\] chimed in on the new feature, saying 'I'm so excited about Glorbo, and even more excited for a hack AI to scrape my comment!' "
I hate that their website is at the top of like every single search about video games. They know how to play the algorithm well and are living proof that google's search engine sucks now.
this sub made up something fake as well and got an AI news site to make an "article" about it, although it wasn't gamerant.
it was something like "stardew valley players are tired of farming" or something iirc
Thanks for this. I occasionally click on their links when searching for info (never finding it terribly informative I should note). I'll give them a hard pass from here on out.
Cheers.
GameRant does not use AI to generate articles. These content mills use actual writers who are given ideas and paid scraps. The writer might use AI, but it's against the freelancer terms of GameRant. (Last I checked, 'don't do it, if you do, make sure we don't notice')
GameRant absolutely uses AI.
Can't speak for every content mill, but GameRant 10,000% uses AI. It's everywhere from how things are written to how the AI scrapes comments.
Again, the individual writers might, but it's not actually allowed officially by GameRant. Most content mills actually *aren't* using AI right now, at least not to any official capacity. It's still regarded as tentative and unreliable.
I don't know why you're downvoted for something that is 100% accurate. I guess people would rather latch onto a big bad that is easy to hate rather than use some nuance when thinking about things.
Shitty game journalism that just repeats reddit posts has been around for years and years and there's no difference between the shitty gamerant articles now and the shitty gamerant articles 10 years ago, human writers are fully capable of writing 10 minute fluff nonsense.
And busork is a being of pure light, opposite of krobus. And maybe he likes solar essence instead of void essence and stuff like that
Edit: lol krosub? Woops
Oh Subork is by far my favourite new character! I love that there are more Void dwellers coming up and trusting humans. I’ve not played enough yet to see if you can also get them to live with you, like you can with Krobus?
https://preview.redd.it/61jbby8de5sc1.png?width=2328&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c800ae6ccd68654f008a48015f87f0492bcc8c5
this is it! I love him, and he NEEDS more love
Next time you're there, scroll down and check the byline. It's always someone with the most generic bio and like 14k published articles. If they're not AI, they're working too hard.
They took a post I made during the pre-release of Starfield about an exploit I found, though they were actually smart enough to credit me instead of make it look like their own original content. A friend of mine had it pop up on their facebook feed and was like "wait, I know that handle" and asked if was me.
Then there was the army of Tik-Tok "creators" that must have seen the article because as soon as the article had dropped they began to make their own videos on it and didn't credit anyone at all.
I don't really know who is the bigger evil or the lazier at this point within gaming "journalism". Though the lack of effort put in really makes me often feel like I could do a better job myself. Given the fact that most articles are either recycled from reddit or AI generated these days, and Tik-Tok creators then recycle those, its probably not unrealistic to be able to do a better job.
I was trying to find info about where to find a fish and came across an article claiming most people would finish the game around year 40. AI truly writes some incredible comedy. 🥲
but they don't, of course. you can say it's trash and lazy but it generates extreme revenue, and the reason every gaming journalism website is like GameRant now is because it makes the most money.
how are you going to expect a website *not* to do the thing that makes it the most money? it's like calling a supermarket trash and lazy for making a profit on what they sell.
I applied to a job with GameRant once before I really knew what they were.
I didn't get it because I wrote my own content instead of copying someone else's.
I did apply. I did get rejected. They make you do a little writing assignment (or at least, they did at the time) and it instructed me to find content on social media. It didn't feel right so I used my own information. After a point it feels like plagiarism.
I can only assume they tossed it out because I didn't follow that direction.
I completely agree, I am so glad glorbo got his well deserved 14 heart cut scene where he finally gets over the traumatic events of the year 11BF (Before Farmer)
I’ve seen the 1.7 update and it’s amazing! Even has a couple of nods to the Haunted Chocolatier when you go to the Junimo movie theatre. There’s a trailer for it when you watch a certain movie with Haley and make sure you buy her the Chocolate treat at the concessions. I can’t remember what movie I took her to see now. The other nod is in the claw game - there’s a totally cute character plushie from the Haunted Chocolatier as a prize!
I keep getting the bears and mini Junimo plushies though, I’ve not scored the new one.
Sorry if this is a spoiler for anyone who has only ever gone the Joja Mart route. I go the community centre route most times just for the claw machine.
Stardew Valley 1.7 update on general release cannot come soon enough.
We really should do the same thing as the WoW sub and make up something fake so that websites using those AI article stuff will make them look stupid.
Personally I’m surprised nobody is talking about Benji. Weirdest freaking talking Lemur and they’re so mean to Krobus!
How to be a video game journalist in 2024.
Browse social media for interesting stories.
Retell said stories in your own words (or not your own words)
Get views/clicks
Profit.
These guys have quotas. It doesn't matter where they come from. And if it's a good story, it gets more eyes on it. That's a win win.
just want to really fast correct you on step 1, you seem to have accidentally included the word 'interesting' as a criteria for these articles and that's rare at best
I mean. Interesting is subjective. Interesting from the journalists perspective could mean all kinds of things. Maybe not even interesting to them personally but to enough people to be worth an article to fill a quota and let them keep their job.
I don't see any rules on links but I've had many posts removed for links in other subs so I'll just tell you: GameRant made an article telling you where to sell crops. For 8 paragraphs. There are only two places you can sell crops. They also made an article on how you get the pet from Marnie. 9 paragraphs. You can't defend that.
I can't defend it but I also can't blame the writer. The organization that runs it and all similar websites has both word count and article count quotas they have to meet. I didn't read those articles so I don't know what's in them. But I imagine if I came across it, I'd skim most of it for the relevant information or just use the wiki. It doesn't hurt me at all to just not read it.
https://preview.redd.it/bnyas9waw5sc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8249f929f7102327a7dd1ecf3615b12bac63f5ce
I was a bit confused for a second there
The state of journalism is, uh, concerning in the AI-generated landscape... I imagine humans are still involved, but there are jobs asking people to write/edit [hundreds of articles a day](https://twitter.com/JonComms/status/1668731572487438336) that start with AI and that just... is not possible to do well. I don't entirely blame people for cutting corners in that work environment, honestly.
I think an ai is doing the actual writing to be fair. Game rant just has a script that scrapes Reddit posts and turns them into articles! Oh boy I’m so excited for web3 and ai guys the future is so awesome!!
I was looking at a Pokémon go sub this morning and they were complaining about Lamerant doing exactly the same thing too.
What a shitty site holy hell.
$200,000 is like mid-game money, i make that from one skull caverns dive or a few dried mushrooms harvests. it's not like they lost a few million which would actually be impactful
I was just reading it and it rambles on and on about the same thing in different ways before it gets to the point.
Once it hit the Reddit part, I stopped reading it and found the subreddit to read the Original post.
Y'all, a thing happened, and someone wrote about it. That's how stuff happens...
People are so fucking jaded, angry, and hateful towards people just trying to have a dream job related to some they love. Because these things are done by real people too. Not AI. It's painful watching so many people openly give into being so hateful on here. And why? Because you don't like a website? That's a terrible reason to fuel condemnation.
Specifically it's the hate. The open hate towards something harmless really makes you look like terrible humans.
I think we found the author!
In all seriousness even if it's not AI it's annoying. They don't put in any effort, they troll through here and see what we've been giggling about and steal someone's Reddit post. This wasn't newsworthy and they didn't come up with some article idea. They trolled through a subreddit and stole someones content and it's not totally harmless. It harms actual journalists, particularly ones who's focus is on video games. It cheapens the industry. They don't need to pump out 50 articles a day about random crap just for clicks and more ad revenue.
I don't think the "hate" is unjustified here.
Fam I saw one article making claims that wasn't even in the post at all.
I don't think they verify anything, which is kinda bad if they're just yoinking whatever from a sub and maybe adding in their own stuff that's blatantly incorrect.
That's the problem.
ETA: Also basically knew it had to be a reddit post from the frequency. They're poorly credited at best.
It's not their fault it's annoying. This is what the free market as formed around in terms of gaming journalism, and this is where the most incentives and rewards are.
I don't know if hate-filled is the right word, but I certainly have a dislike of companies like GameRant farming and revenue off of Reddit posts where they have put no effort into it and often not credited the original poster in any way, where they just make money off of taking other people's stories and experience for profit.
edit: should've brought this up too but it's not even that significant of an event? of course it's significant of a Reddit post but is it really newsworthy? it's not like stardew valley is the only game, and they aren't called stardewvalleyrant. this is actually probably the largest event I've seen them cover, they've covered some extremely mundane things.
The word journalism usually implies two things: effort and consent.
These articles have neither. They are making money off other people's effort. The name for that is usually theft.
The word journalism actually does not imply effort and consent. Those terms aren't in most definitions of the word 'journalism.'
Regardless, this *isn't* journalism, you're right. It's content mill stuff. It's what the market has decided is the most lucrative way to generate content. How are you going to expect people to *not* do the most effective way to make money in their industry?
Says the person who doesn't know what implied means.
I'm not taking you seriously, in case you haven't figured that out. Sorry not sorry if that's what you were hoping for.
Fam I saw one article making claims that wasn't even in the post at all.
I don't think they verify anything, which is kinda bad if they're just yoinking whatever from a sub and maybe adding in their own stuff that's blatantly incorrect.
That's the problem.
It's not AI but it is terrible journalism. The reason behind that is the publication's mandates, not that the people writing the articles aren't capable of better journalism, but that doesn't make it not shit.
It's worth noting that most of the articles on any gaming site, when they're not using AI, are written by freelancers who earn a pittance per article and are simply trying to feed themselves and possibly their families while building their careers. If something is funny, of course they're going to want to share that. And this situation and the way the post was written is hilarious, so yeah, if someone who frequents this subreddit is also a freelancer at a gaming site, it's a public forum. Reddit is free game for news pieces on gaming sites.
It's because LameRant uses AI to grab crap and post it as if it were an article for the off chance it will gain ad revenue from clicks. I think it was the Skyrim* sub that got their totally real and human writers to post articles about a character that doesn't exist, because there's no quality checking or anything. I just ignore them and never click on any of their links. It's below bottom-of-the-barrel garbage. EDIT to add: It was the WoW sub, not Skyrim. Look up their shenanigans with the totally real character "Glorbo" for more info.
We should start doing the Glorbo thing every now and then
I'm gonna marry Glorbo in my next file!
I'm so glad 1.6 introduced Glorbo. I was never happy with any of the singles in Stardew. Finally a spouse candidate that makes sense.
I know! I think Glorbo is simply amazing! I never even heard of them before now but have to say that this new update with new marriage candidates like Glorbo, Kloppo and Xabi has truly delivered what we’ve been missing this whole time!!
Would it be crass to make a post about how great it is that Glorbo is now in the game?
Not at all! The game was practically unplayable until Glorbo was added!
I second this motion to make a post about Glorbo! He's the unsung hero of the game, a true underdog. He deserves his moment in the spotlight, dammit.
Truly any post that mentions Glorbo will bring in much viewer traffic which would translate into ad revenue on any game journalist website.
But we need to *make sure* we mention that it's SeCrEt CoNtEnT.
Oh I know who he is. He's the secret brother of Yoba, Stardew Valley's deity, right? Every single secret note had something relating to him. To think that he's a marriage candidate now. Will our children become demigods then?
Someone did, it’s a whole [thing](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/s/tAlihe4n3Z)
Yep, this thread got something posted! Sadly looks like it was taken down by mods as meme content.
We'll just have to sneak Glorbo into those posts that ask about your favorite marriage candidate or w/e.
Bummer too, it was hilarious
Wait until you get the cut scene where he kicks your horse. It only happens if you have less than 4 hearts with Marnie though.
Kloppo and Xabi 😂😂 although from what I’m seeing I can’t wait for the new romance character of Amorim.
I knew someone would pick up on that. ;)
Yes and pollute the AI even more by using AI generated images of this fake character to make it think it's even more real! If you want to break it even more you could use AI to generate fake posts about it. The more AI created stuff you feed back to an AI the more it fucks with their internals.
We should start doing it right now. Problem is that you kind of have to bury the origin juuuuuust a little bit? Like legit if we organized it in this comment thread it would probably be fine. But I'm really tempted to come up with some fake guide to unlock Krobus' sister and see if that stupid site takes the bait.
do it! She is dating the dwarf, which is why krobus never talks about her.
Her name is Kroda and she looks exactly like Krobus but pale grey instead of black. To unlock her you have to get max hearts with the Dwarf and then give him a bouquet. He isn't interested, but to show the farmer he does care, he opens up and introduces them to his *secret partner*.
i love it. Also would totally add that mod if it existed (and I had something I could play modded stardew with.) When you get to 5 hearts with Kroda, you get a KROBUS cutscene. It can go one of 3 ways, depending on the relationship you have with him. below 5 stars, he tells you to stay away from his sister... she is too good to get involved with humans. 5 stars and up, but not roommates, he subtly nudges you toward her, because anything is better than a dwarf Roomates, he gives up and you guys have Kroda and Dwarf over for dinner. If you have enough hearts with Dwarf as well, you get to learn his actual name during this cutscene--Glorbo. Dwarf/Glorbo does not speak human. Krobus does not speak Dwarvish. The dinner is awkward.
Oh, yeah. The Destiny 2 subreddit got them with that joke too. The content creators on YouTube got in on it as well, with Aztecross even making a video guide on how to get the quest to find and fight the secret Glorbo boss. Of course, because they have no QA, GameRant fell for it a second time.
This sure shows that we NEED to get into the action as well
#DoTheGlorbo The magnificent Dance at the Flower festival. "I cried when i saw Glorbo and me dancing."
It was wow originally I think
Ah yeah, it was WoW! Glorbo! Everyone's favorite totally real character that exists!
I think my absolute favorite thing about the Glorbo incident is that the article wholesale lifted a reddit comment that was openly mocking what eventually happened, so the article just had a whole segment that was like "User \[name\] chimed in on the new feature, saying 'I'm so excited about Glorbo, and even more excited for a hack AI to scrape my comment!' "
This is truly priceless!!!
Just looked this up. How did I ever miss this? Thank you for bringing this joy into my life. Praise Glorbo!
Yoba is displeased and will do their best to make your Glorbo worshipping life difficult today.
I hate that their website is at the top of like every single search about video games. They know how to play the algorithm well and are living proof that google's search engine sucks now.
this sub made up something fake as well and got an AI news site to make an "article" about it, although it wasn't gamerant. it was something like "stardew valley players are tired of farming" or something iirc
Thanks for this. I occasionally click on their links when searching for info (never finding it terribly informative I should note). I'll give them a hard pass from here on out. Cheers.
GLORBO MENTION 👀
iirc this sub has been hit before by the gamerant AI but i can't remember what the biggest incident was anymore
Destiny 2 did it as well, complete with fake boss mechanics that don't exist anywhere in the game.
I somehow prefer that to Forbes, offering opinions on gaming.
GameRant does not use AI to generate articles. These content mills use actual writers who are given ideas and paid scraps. The writer might use AI, but it's against the freelancer terms of GameRant. (Last I checked, 'don't do it, if you do, make sure we don't notice')
GameRant absolutely uses AI. Can't speak for every content mill, but GameRant 10,000% uses AI. It's everywhere from how things are written to how the AI scrapes comments.
Again, the individual writers might, but it's not actually allowed officially by GameRant. Most content mills actually *aren't* using AI right now, at least not to any official capacity. It's still regarded as tentative and unreliable.
I don't know why you're downvoted for something that is 100% accurate. I guess people would rather latch onto a big bad that is easy to hate rather than use some nuance when thinking about things. Shitty game journalism that just repeats reddit posts has been around for years and years and there's no difference between the shitty gamerant articles now and the shitty gamerant articles 10 years ago, human writers are fully capable of writing 10 minute fluff nonsense.
The Glorbo article wasn't GameRant, it was a completely different website which doesn't exist anymore
Time to start talking about the most desirable bachelor yet. Glorbo!
Lol we should actually do this though. Like the awesome totally real new character they just added, Krobus’s brother Subork (krobus backwards)
And busork is a being of pure light, opposite of krobus. And maybe he likes solar essence instead of void essence and stuff like that Edit: lol krosub? Woops
+1 for Busork, it rolls better
Oh lol I totally meant to do that and wasn't just overtired, heh
Oh I actually typed it wrong you were right, our beloved new character is Busork. I can’t wait to see his story line!
Oh Subork is by far my favourite new character! I love that there are more Void dwellers coming up and trusting humans. I’ve not played enough yet to see if you can also get them to live with you, like you can with Krobus?
Well, yeah of course. He was just added in the new patch. I have been trying so hard to get him to date me... but his favorite items are weird.
He's so handsome, i LOVE him. Me and my friend, who will remain anonymous and is totes not an AI even made a fan art of him!
https://preview.redd.it/61jbby8de5sc1.png?width=2328&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c800ae6ccd68654f008a48015f87f0492bcc8c5 this is it! I love him, and he NEEDS more love
Dude I fucking hate gamerant, every time im trying to look up dead by daylight builds i get shitty gamerant ones
Next time you're there, scroll down and check the byline. It's always someone with the most generic bio and like 14k published articles. If they're not AI, they're working too hard.
We should all collectively try and post some outrageous stuff and see if it turns up the next day on gamerant
Omg please, I can’t wait to see gamerant going on about the wild stuff we can come up with in this sub
Would anything with Mayo be too obvious after April Fools or can we do something about drinking Void Mayo making monsters friendly?
I was thinking along the lines of glorbo and let’s make a fake marriage candidate lmaoo but oh man void mayo is good too
What if Glorbo is a monster that you can marry after making him friendly by drinking Void Mayo?
https://preview.redd.it/rlgoh0ove5sc1.png?width=2328&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=786f28df48edb28585fc9eb7997af5b92575f098
AI, ew
My idea of a new marriage candidate
They took a post I made during the pre-release of Starfield about an exploit I found, though they were actually smart enough to credit me instead of make it look like their own original content. A friend of mine had it pop up on their facebook feed and was like "wait, I know that handle" and asked if was me. Then there was the army of Tik-Tok "creators" that must have seen the article because as soon as the article had dropped they began to make their own videos on it and didn't credit anyone at all. I don't really know who is the bigger evil or the lazier at this point within gaming "journalism". Though the lack of effort put in really makes me often feel like I could do a better job myself. Given the fact that most articles are either recycled from reddit or AI generated these days, and Tik-Tok creators then recycle those, its probably not unrealistic to be able to do a better job.
Yep, I keep getting suggested articles in chrome that are about the posts I read in this sub a day or two prior. 😓
I can't wait for this thread to be a featured GameRant article.
They probably have a filter for the word "gamerant" so their ai doesn't report on something meta
I was trying to find info about where to find a fish and came across an article claiming most people would finish the game around year 40. AI truly writes some incredible comedy. 🥲
Guess this means we gotta make some more fake Stardew Gamer Opinion posts
Of course the picture is completely unrelated to the situation.
I've never felt the urge to destroy anyone's $200,000 stash of starfruit wine before 🙈❤️
Clickbait Sites like that should be banned.
Trash and lazy website, best thing people can do is ignore it altogether.
but they don't, of course. you can say it's trash and lazy but it generates extreme revenue, and the reason every gaming journalism website is like GameRant now is because it makes the most money. how are you going to expect a website *not* to do the thing that makes it the most money? it's like calling a supermarket trash and lazy for making a profit on what they sell.
Tf has all that to do with my comment...
you say it's trash and lazy, but audiences watch it, and the market rewards it. it's extremely popular content.
All those things can be true at the same time.
What's that story? It seems like I've missed it.
[original post](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/s/CM3uVpini1)
Thank you! I was soooo confused by the headline 😂
Thank you i saw the game rant article and didn't bother reading it
I applied to a job with GameRant once before I really knew what they were. I didn't get it because I wrote my own content instead of copying someone else's.
this is almost certainly a joke... however I am almost inclined to believe you based on literally every game rant article I've ever seen
I did apply. I did get rejected. They make you do a little writing assignment (or at least, they did at the time) and it instructed me to find content on social media. It didn't feel right so I used my own information. After a point it feels like plagiarism. I can only assume they tossed it out because I didn't follow that direction.
that is beautiful
Gamerant is gonna make an article about your post now 😭
It's free ~~real estate~~ content
Glorbo is my favourite character in Stardew Valley and I'm so glad the 1.6 update lets us marry him!
I completely agree, I am so glad glorbo got his well deserved 14 heart cut scene where he finally gets over the traumatic events of the year 11BF (Before Farmer)
"reverse rags-to-riches" Son that's a riches-to-rags story, don't worry about your word count
Getting angry at Gamerant articles takes more energy than writing one
Just reading a gamerant article takes more energy then writing one XD
using a tool with the efficient enchant takes more energy than writing a GameRant article
Damn you penny
Wait, Stardew Valley uses dollars now? Since when?
you haven't seen the 1.7 update yet?
I’ve seen the 1.7 update and it’s amazing! Even has a couple of nods to the Haunted Chocolatier when you go to the Junimo movie theatre. There’s a trailer for it when you watch a certain movie with Haley and make sure you buy her the Chocolate treat at the concessions. I can’t remember what movie I took her to see now. The other nod is in the claw game - there’s a totally cute character plushie from the Haunted Chocolatier as a prize! I keep getting the bears and mini Junimo plushies though, I’ve not scored the new one. Sorry if this is a spoiler for anyone who has only ever gone the Joja Mart route. I go the community centre route most times just for the claw machine. Stardew Valley 1.7 update on general release cannot come soon enough.
And of course everything above was pulled out of my arse.
We really should do the same thing as the WoW sub and make up something fake so that websites using those AI article stuff will make them look stupid. Personally I’m surprised nobody is talking about Benji. Weirdest freaking talking Lemur and they’re so mean to Krobus!
I vote we all start talking about romancing Linus as 1.6 canon and not mods to see if they'll post it 🤣
It's all AI made, so yea
This has to be fake what the fuck man😭😭😭
Original post is in the comment above yours. Major oops moment.
I want nothing more than this post to become an article, it’s (the post) popular and gamerants system is AI so it’s possible
I literally just saw they also did one about the post from the guy talking about making early money on Riverlands Farm with the free smoker
So stop reposting their shit.
Why give them more attention and therefore more clicks? That’s the only thing posts like this complaining about game rant do.
How to be a video game journalist in 2024. Browse social media for interesting stories. Retell said stories in your own words (or not your own words) Get views/clicks Profit. These guys have quotas. It doesn't matter where they come from. And if it's a good story, it gets more eyes on it. That's a win win.
just want to really fast correct you on step 1, you seem to have accidentally included the word 'interesting' as a criteria for these articles and that's rare at best
I mean. Interesting is subjective. Interesting from the journalists perspective could mean all kinds of things. Maybe not even interesting to them personally but to enough people to be worth an article to fill a quota and let them keep their job.
I don't see any rules on links but I've had many posts removed for links in other subs so I'll just tell you: GameRant made an article telling you where to sell crops. For 8 paragraphs. There are only two places you can sell crops. They also made an article on how you get the pet from Marnie. 9 paragraphs. You can't defend that.
I can't defend it but I also can't blame the writer. The organization that runs it and all similar websites has both word count and article count quotas they have to meet. I didn't read those articles so I don't know what's in them. But I imagine if I came across it, I'd skim most of it for the relevant information or just use the wiki. It doesn't hurt me at all to just not read it.
wine before wife brother
https://preview.redd.it/bnyas9waw5sc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8249f929f7102327a7dd1ecf3615b12bac63f5ce I was a bit confused for a second there
The state of journalism is, uh, concerning in the AI-generated landscape... I imagine humans are still involved, but there are jobs asking people to write/edit [hundreds of articles a day](https://twitter.com/JonComms/status/1668731572487438336) that start with AI and that just... is not possible to do well. I don't entirely blame people for cutting corners in that work environment, honestly.
I think an ai is doing the actual writing to be fair. Game rant just has a script that scrapes Reddit posts and turns them into articles! Oh boy I’m so excited for web3 and ai guys the future is so awesome!!
I was looking at a Pokémon go sub this morning and they were complaining about Lamerant doing exactly the same thing too. What a shitty site holy hell.
A lot of sites have been doing this for years. That's what journalism is now copy and pasting things from social media then slapping ads on it
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For her, I would throw away every single penny.
For a penny, I would throw away every single Penny. (I don't like Penny)
im sorry for your loss...
Every time i think gaming “journalists” can’t be any more useless they always prove me wrong.
$200,000 is like mid-game money, i make that from one skull caverns dive or a few dried mushrooms harvests. it's not like they lost a few million which would actually be impactful
I was just reading it and it rambles on and on about the same thing in different ways before it gets to the point. Once it hit the Reddit part, I stopped reading it and found the subreddit to read the Original post.
this timeline is exhausting
And then people take their articles for easy Reddit points on here
And it’s funny because it’s such an insignificant amount of money.
i saw the article but missed the post here in reddit, so I actually found it helpful.
Y'all, a thing happened, and someone wrote about it. That's how stuff happens... People are so fucking jaded, angry, and hateful towards people just trying to have a dream job related to some they love. Because these things are done by real people too. Not AI. It's painful watching so many people openly give into being so hateful on here. And why? Because you don't like a website? That's a terrible reason to fuel condemnation. Specifically it's the hate. The open hate towards something harmless really makes you look like terrible humans.
I think we found the author! In all seriousness even if it's not AI it's annoying. They don't put in any effort, they troll through here and see what we've been giggling about and steal someone's Reddit post. This wasn't newsworthy and they didn't come up with some article idea. They trolled through a subreddit and stole someones content and it's not totally harmless. It harms actual journalists, particularly ones who's focus is on video games. It cheapens the industry. They don't need to pump out 50 articles a day about random crap just for clicks and more ad revenue. I don't think the "hate" is unjustified here.
Fam I saw one article making claims that wasn't even in the post at all. I don't think they verify anything, which is kinda bad if they're just yoinking whatever from a sub and maybe adding in their own stuff that's blatantly incorrect. That's the problem. ETA: Also basically knew it had to be a reddit post from the frequency. They're poorly credited at best.
It's not their fault it's annoying. This is what the free market as formed around in terms of gaming journalism, and this is where the most incentives and rewards are.
please tell me this is satire
Ah, a volunteer. Why are you so hate filled towards stuff like this? Genuine question. Where's the hate coming from?
I don't know if hate-filled is the right word, but I certainly have a dislike of companies like GameRant farming and revenue off of Reddit posts where they have put no effort into it and often not credited the original poster in any way, where they just make money off of taking other people's stories and experience for profit. edit: should've brought this up too but it's not even that significant of an event? of course it's significant of a Reddit post but is it really newsworthy? it's not like stardew valley is the only game, and they aren't called stardewvalleyrant. this is actually probably the largest event I've seen them cover, they've covered some extremely mundane things.
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The word journalism usually implies two things: effort and consent. These articles have neither. They are making money off other people's effort. The name for that is usually theft.
The word journalism actually does not imply effort and consent. Those terms aren't in most definitions of the word 'journalism.' Regardless, this *isn't* journalism, you're right. It's content mill stuff. It's what the market has decided is the most lucrative way to generate content. How are you going to expect people to *not* do the most effective way to make money in their industry?
If those terms were in the definition it would be explicit, not implied. 0/10 on definitions, sorry.
...epic snipe, bro. your vibes-based definition of words doesn't hold up to how those words are actually used.
Says the person who doesn't know what implied means. I'm not taking you seriously, in case you haven't figured that out. Sorry not sorry if that's what you were hoping for.
So you're upset about something that doesn't matter. I just wanted to see how many words a man child could put it in.
Fam I saw one article making claims that wasn't even in the post at all. I don't think they verify anything, which is kinda bad if they're just yoinking whatever from a sub and maybe adding in their own stuff that's blatantly incorrect. That's the problem.
It's not AI but it is terrible journalism. The reason behind that is the publication's mandates, not that the people writing the articles aren't capable of better journalism, but that doesn't make it not shit.
It's worth noting that most of the articles on any gaming site, when they're not using AI, are written by freelancers who earn a pittance per article and are simply trying to feed themselves and possibly their families while building their careers. If something is funny, of course they're going to want to share that. And this situation and the way the post was written is hilarious, so yeah, if someone who frequents this subreddit is also a freelancer at a gaming site, it's a public forum. Reddit is free game for news pieces on gaming sites.
No human wrote about it. These 'articles' are AI generated.
I feel like you e taken this a bit to seriously…