Jeffrey Vega

went to pretty girl avenue and everyone knew you

tomorrow comes today

Shared with permission: my incredible colleague, NVC producer Red Rigos, was impacted by IGN's layoffs yesterday. We're heartbroken: Red is kind, funny, talented, and dedicated and has been a huge part of NVC's growth and success.

Please hire him: www.redrigos.com/ign

One of the impacted members. 🫡

My co-workers at IGN are incredible and every one of us who was let go and every one of those who is still there deserves so much better.

I am, unfortunately, one of these eight members.

*Record Scratch* Freeze Frame. "You're probably wondering how I got here."

I am one of the eight IGN members laid off. During my three years at IGN, I worked for some of the best creators and writers around. I will miss them all dearly.

I cried this morning because so many of my wonderful colleagues were laid off today, even after the success of IGN Live and Comic-Con.

After today's layoffs, I am now the only social team member left in LA.
How am I supposed to do my job?

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:

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#TheFantasticFour: First Steps is fun! I wish we had more time with each of the characters, but they have A LOT of scary stuff to deal with in the movie. The 60s aesthetic is *chef’s kiss* and Michael Giacchino’s score is my favorite part of the movie. 🗣️ FANTASTIC FOUR 🎶

I saw The Naked Gun and I can now say they ARE making them like they used to! There are so many great jokes in this and you can tell the filmmakers had so much fun making an actual comedy movie. #NakedGun

#Superman is very weird in the best way possible. It’s the most “comic book” movie I’ve ever seen: it’s colorful, it’s funny, it has setpieces you wouldn’t believe. There is a true kindness in David Corenswet’s Superman and I can’t wait to see these characters again soon 🥹

I’m verified on Bluesky now! I was about to post “how do fish not fill up with water” but now I’m glad I didn’t

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Lilo & Stitch (2025) is a very very very cute movie and the pacing has a breakneck speed I was not expecting- it’s the most “cartoony” live-action Disney movie yet, which I loved!! It’s heartfelt, funny, and Stitch is classic Stitch. Also Maia Kealoha is INCREDIBLE. She IS Lilo.

we got GTA 6 delay before GTA 6

I fucking love laying down

I saw Thunderbolts* and I loved it so much. I was holding back tears during the whole thing. It’s funny, it’s dark, it’s FULL of action, and has everything else you love from a Marvel movie 🥹

Hugh Jackman sitting at the Hot Ones table in shock

target hasn’t canceled my switch 2 pre-order yet

i wonder if we’ll be able to play fortnite on nintendo switch 2 with the mouse controls?

sonic the hedgehug

IGN's Jeffrey Vega in a crowd at the Taco Bell Live Mas event. Everyone in the crowd is smiling and he looks very stern while holding up his phone to take footage.

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No one is more diligent in their fast food E3 reporting than IGN's own @jeffreyvega.bsky.social.

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This just arrived at my home. I’m NOT opening this

pokemon legend sza

“watermelon sugar” by harry styles but it’s “warm vanilla sugar” from bath & body works

your face on this graphic jump scared me so bad (complimentary)

I’m hosting 3 panels at MEGACON Orlando! Join me, Ella Purnell, Andy Serkis, and Jamie Campbell Bower as we laugh, cry, and celebrate the things we love together! See you this weekend at @megaconorlando.bsky.social 🤩

LA friends, please stay safe ❤️

You’re not gonna believe who I’m talking to tomorrow

James Gunn x IGN Creature Commandos Instagram Live Jan. 8 @ 1:30PM PT

To celebrate the Creature Commandos season finale, @jamesgunn.bsky.social is going live with IGN's @jeffreyvega.bsky.social! bit.ly/2VljhTh

Tune in to Instagram on Wednesday, 1/8 at 1PM PST, and catch the Creature Commandos Season 1 finale on Thursday 1/9, only on Max!

what was the first ever joke?