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For those of you coming for the Chapter By Chapter review I’m moving it to tomorrow. This is breaking news and while slightly off-topic for this site I still find it interesting enough that something should be said.

So as you can tell from the above tweet, Comcast has decided to end it’s nearly year-long experiment with the revival of G4. Thanks to Deadline Hollywood posting an acquired memo before it could reach all of the staff because getting that scoop is more important than compassion for all the people about to lose their jobs, some of the staff and talent saw the article before the memo hit their email or was handed to them at the start of their work day. I saw a tweet from one guy who was flying home for his father’s funeral when this hit social media. So I’m not linking to it or the Variety article that came out at the same time because screw you, scoop hunters with no compassion for the people whose lives were just damaged if not ruined by how this news was release. It wasn’t even G4’s fault that this leak occurred and it was a jerk move not to wait at least until work day Monday.

You know what WAS G4’s fault though? The reason it ended. No, not necessarily “that rant”, though to say it didn’t play a part would be incorrect. However, it wasn’t the rant itself that ruined G4 but the aftermath that opened eyes to the current state of the channel. For context I already wrote an article when it was announced asking if we need another G4 and one after the Frosk rant was dissected by Midnight’s Edge and again after the response by G4. Check those out because I’ll be referring to stuff in minor detail that I went over in greater detail there. (In fact the rant aftermath post got a lot of hits in the stats after the news dropped.) This is sort of a wrap-up of events…because G4 is wrapping up.

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