Get ready for 24 HOURS of LOTR! Today starting at 10am EST I'll be building the Shire LEGO set until its complete. Stop on by for some cozy LOTR vibes!
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Get ready for 24 HOURS of LOTR! Today starting at 10am EST I'll be building the Shire LEGO set until its complete. Stop on by for some cozy LOTR vibes!
twitch.tv/ohheyshai
It's that time of year again! Want to spruce up your charity streams? I made an extension to connect your @tiltify.com campaign to @streamer.bot to make cool chat interactions & alerts! I'll be live on Nov 23rd at 1pm CST to showcase my extension (maybe some new features too 👀) & make a new overlay!
19.11.2025 00:28 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
It's the LAST day of Camp Write-a-Lot! We're celebrating with a final push... 12 hours of stream to get our projects done 😳 Can I finish my novel in time?
twitch.tv/ohheyshai
SECOND QUARTER 2025 RESULTS Q2 2025 quarterly revenues increased 9.8% to $352.2 million compared to $320.8 million for Q2 2024. Income from operations increased 17.2% to $33.5 million compared to $28.6 million for Q2 2024. Net income (1) decreased to $26.3 million compared to $36.9 million for Q2 2024. Net income per diluted share (1) decreased to $0.62 in Q2 2025 compared to $0.77 for Q2 2024. Adjusted EBITDA (2) for the quarter increased 11.8% to $107.7 million compared to $96.3 million for Q2 2024. Adjusted net income (2) decreased to $51.6 million compared to $53.7 million for Q2 2024. Adjusted net income per diluted share (1)(2) (or “Adjusted diluted EPS”) for the quarter increased 5.1% to $1.24 compared to $1.18 for Q2 2024. Net cash provided by operating activities was $57.1 million in Q2 2025 compared to $50.6 million in Q2 2024. Free cash flow (2) was $26.9 million in Q2 2025 compared to $25.1 million in Q2 2024. Ziff Davis deployed approximately $11.4 million for current and prior year acquisitions during the quarter and $33.9 million related to share repurchases in Q2 2025.
Ziff Davis just reported their "strongest quarterly revenue growth since 2021," up 9.8% to $352.2M, with gaming and entertainment up 7.5% YOY.
So why were 8 of our members and 23 members of @zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social just laid off? bit.ly/3H0Osvb
Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI
threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.
Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.
Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:
I hope you feel better friend 🥺💕
19.07.2025 20:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An update: management has chosen not to recognize our Product, Engineering, and Humble Bundle colleagues as part of IGNCG, instead insisting on a time-consuming NLRB hearing, which took place last week.
Help us spread the word: we will not be divided. We are IGN, and we will always stand together.
Hi. Are you writing a book? Or perhaps you really really want to write a book?
This August I'm hosting a virtual writing event on Twitch and Discord! Join Camp Write-a-Lot and make a goal to write your book before the month is out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoKi...
Kirby Pancakes! #art #illustration #digitalart #food #artsky #nintendo #kirby
10.06.2025 16:41 — 👍 168 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 0
Recognize IGN Creators Guild (2.0) Now!
It’s been-
One week since we asked IGN Entertainment to recognize our friends on the product, engineering, and Humble Bundle teams as part of the IGN Creators Guild.
The sooner that happens, the sooner we can start working with management to build towards a stronger future for us all!
Day 2 begins now! Time to do some prep and head back into the Depths to help raise funds for the Lupus Foundation of America!
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Day 1 went great! We’ve raised over $100 so far and made it to the Demon King’s army. Tomorrow, we do some sundelion hunting and go again!
26.05.2025 02:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Charity stream is live! I'm attempting my first 4-Heart run of TOTK to help raise funds for @lupus.org, come say hi or donate to spin the wheel of punishment 😈
www.twitch.tv/ohheyshai
so i made the tough decision to reset my acnh island this week... and this is what happened when i said goodbye to my favorite villager 😭
23.05.2025 23:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Calendar of Game On! To End Lupus charity stream for OhHeyShai, on May 25 - 26. The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, 4-Heart Run (glitchless, any%). Schedule... Sunday 10am - 10pm, Monday 10am-10pm.
Super excited for this Memorial weekend! I'll be attempting a 4-Heart Run of TOTK to help raise funds for the @lupus.org!
Get ready for two 12-hr streams back-to-back, May 25 and May 26, each starting at 10am EST! Donate to spin the wheel of punishment 😳
#gotel2025
I made a resolution this year to write for one hour, every Saturday morning. Some days I write 900 words, others I write only a handful.
But today, I hit 60k in my novel, and I am so incredibly proud of myself 🥰
Stream schedule for next month! Very excited to hop into my first Stardew Valley 100% Perfection run 🥰
Plus! We're gonna do a read-a-long for Witch Hat Atelier in preparation for the anime (hopefully) come out this year! Eee!
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Excited to cook up some new lore for my DnD campaign tonight! I’ll be working on it during my coworking stream if anyone needs a space to be productive: twitch.tv/ohheyshai
24.02.2025 00:02 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s coming along so well!!
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Please accept a Figathy, lying on a comfy chair, in these trying times
22.02.2025 19:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hi! I'm Shai. I like frogs, LoTR, and video games (not in any particular order).
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