Current Events > When did Cracked stop being funny

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Maybe I'm just older and more mature but I swear the last few years of Cracked have been a lot more miss than hit.

Did they lose a bunch of their old writers?

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I don't know what Cracked is so probably immediately

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Welcome to, like, 7 years ago.

When they ran out of funny lists to make and started shilling left wing crap.
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They laid off a bunch of writers a couple years ago, but they'd been in a pretty steep decline for most of the last decade or so
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Around the time Seanbaby quit writing for them regularly.

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Just looked it up and yeah apparently everyone's gone

Dan O'Brien got let go
Soren Bowie left

Those two were probably my favorites

Founder/editor-in-chief quit too

What a shame

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I used to have their app when I was younger. I seriously felt like I watched their decline in real time.

One thing is they made a shift towards more politically-charged content at the expense of humor. Like, John Cheese wrote serious articles there but they were funny. When they picked up Adam Tod Brown though, whew. That guy didn't have a funny bone in his body.

They got more scummy with renaming articles halfway through the day to regenerate clicks (and they were always a more egregious and misleading title the second time). They also supposedly believed video would overtake listicles so they poured effort into that

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

Dan O'Brien got let go
Soren Bowie left

Which ruins that "four people sitting in a cafe" video series they had.

I loved that.

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Like 5 years ago at least

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When the magazine died.

I had no idea it still existed. I read it in the early 90s

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Roughly the time the website was created.

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7 years ago, minus a few days.

After this article:

https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/

Note, this is actually a good article however the massive amounts of clicks it brought them dramatically changed the paradigm of the site into just trying to replicate that article's success over and over again without really paying attention to why people were reading the article in the first place.

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Apparently Soren is a writer for American Dad! now so that's good

Wonder what DOB is up to. I still love reading his "5 Things They Never Told Us" article from time to time

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yeah they published that one every year lol

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Tyranthraxus posted...

7 years ago, minus a few days.

After this article:

https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/

Note, this is actually a good article however the massive amounts of clicks it brought them dramatically changed the paradigm of the site into just trying to replicate that article's success over and over again without really paying attention to why people were reading the article in the first place.

Oh damn I remember reading that one the day it came out

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They were bought up by a company that had no idea how an internet based comedy magazine should be run, and they "made redundant" everyone who was making the better content.

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