Giant Freakin Robot Reactivates

By Joshua Tyler
| Published 1 hour ago

GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT is reacting. In November, Google shut down this site, but in the last month, things have started to power back up. You won’t want to miss it.

I intend to continue to practice complete transparency as we go through this process. Here’s what happened, what I’ve done about it, and what I’m doing differently.

THE RISE AND FALL AND FALL AND RISE OF A GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT

GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT began testing the waters for a return in December. After months of being overshadowed by Google (more about what happened here), there were signs that the curtain had been lifted.

Over the past two years, we’ve been shadowed and banned four times, despite Google tells me directly that there is nothing wrong with this website. The longest and most recent shadow ban lasted nearly four months. At that time, Google told us point blank that we wouldn’t be recovering any time soon. As a result, I was forced to lay off all our staff and stop publishing.

Although Google told us directly that nothing would be fixed, it now appears. It’s like we’re a mouse, and Google is an unusually mischievous cat. Speaking from the mouse’s point of view, it’s not fun to have fair play. It ruins people’s lives. That cat, of course, doesn’t care.

The web giant that rules the internet has decided that people are allowed to read our content again. Not as much as they used to be, we are still pushed, but at least it is possible to see some of what we do.

Therefore, Giant Freakin Robot will resume publishing on a limited basis. We won’t be able to bring back 90% of our employees, but we will be able to produce new and interesting content more consistently. Until Google stops us again, that is.

A Different Approach To The Return Of A GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT

News is dead. We won’t do it anymore.

The future of news is on social media platforms like X, where the facts of whatever is happening can be stated in a sentence or two. Websites no longer have a place in reporting. Plus, as any entertainment writer will tell you, news is what they hate writing the most.

You don’t want it, we don’t want it, and so we don’t do it.

Instead, we will focus on more complex commentary, recommendations, discussion and opinion. If it doesn’t take more than a sentence or two to convey, I won’t write about it. No one should. That’s why platforms like X exist

Most of the thing GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT publications will be based on what our writers offer themselves. That means on this website, you will only read content on the subjects we are most expert in and most passionate about. Writers will submit their own stories, and we’ll let them write whatever they want because we know they want the same things our readers want. Everyone wins.

Most of all, we will continue to do so focus on YouTube. It’s a superior platform and the best place to set up shop if you want to survive the web’s move towards corporate ownership No Click Internet. The ZCI is inevitable; that fight is over.

Independent Publishing on a large scale is also now over. Independent Publishers are no longer allowed to compete major media companies. That’s fine with us because their business model based on keyword manipulation is already dead.