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Vice is really terrible nowadays. It was edgy and cool when I was in university (>15 years ago) but it has really shifted in recent years.

If I were to speculate, I'd say it was probably related to the "founder split" that happened between Gavin McInnis and Shane Smith.

If you look at the editorial angle that vice has now, it is pretty one sided with respect to their "social justice" bias, with everything being presented as a fresh outrage or cultural appropriation. (With tumblr teen angst quality arguments)

When you look at Gavin McInnis' twitter, he is pretty much "batshit crazy" on the other side of things. Trump supporter, Men's Rights hero... and so on.

The theory that I operate on (which has the amount of research effort you've read above put into it, so virtually none) is that the mix of two diametrically opposed leaders produced some form of catalytic reaction which resulted in a super-edgy publication which presented nuance to the world.

Without the internal checks and balances, they've presented as "one man's treasure" (and everyone else's trash).

There are other problems at vice too though ... $30k to publish anything you want... have a search for "Nutella"

Vice is basically native advertising pretending to be cool.