{"id":14615,"date":"2020-01-10T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8bitisland.co.nz\/?p=14615"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:45:25","slug":"good-afternoon-good-evening-goodbye-farewell-from-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8bitisland.co.nz\/good-afternoon-good-evening-goodbye-farewell-from-ben\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Afternoon, Good Evening, & Goodbye – Farewell from Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well readers the time has come. Some of you will have\nalready been aware of this with the rebrand and the statement that was released\nbut time with CultureJam is at an end. Allow me a final chance for some self-indulgence\nand reflection as I sign off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five years ago I sat down at my computer, bought a domain\nand a website template and stumbled my way through creating ThoseGamers. Did I\nknow what I was doing? Definitely not. Did I stop when I wiped the customisation\nto the website when I played too much with the template settings? Not a chance.\nI hung in there because I had a passion for playing video games and playing\nwith the latest and greatest gadgets. I also had a vision. That vision was to\ncreate a website that didn\u2019t care too much about grammatical correctness or\njournalistic structure. I wanted to create a site that was straight from the\nheart and provided you all with news from the gaming and tech world along with\nhonest reviews of the games and products I was checking out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the site grew and we covered more things I realised there\nwas no way I could do it alone and that the name did not accurately reflect\nwhat we were covering, hence ThoseGamers became CultureJam, a name that better\nreflected all that was being covered all the while sticking to the core value\nthe site was founded on, honest coverage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Growth also meant I\ncouldn\u2019t do it on my own and I was lucky enough to have the supremely talented\nBrian McDonald join me and I truly believe that what started out as a vision,\nturned into something greater than I could have ever imagined. A place that\nnever compromised its integrity and always delivered an honest assessment of\nwhat we games we played and what tech we were lucky enough to be sent to review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We could not have continued for five years without the\ntremendous support of you, our readers. Whenever I looked at analytics, I was\nblown away by the traffic coming to the site and that is what kept me going for\nall those years. Make no mistake, aside from absolutely miniscule ad revenue\nfrom Adwords we have never generated outside revenue from the site. This was a\nlabour of love that was spurred on by you all coming and reading what was\nwritten and for that I say a sincere thanks. The truth of the matter is, I\nnever studied communications or journalism. I\u2019m an Accountant and in all\nhonesty not really talented in writing. Any of you that read my reviews will\nhave no doubt noticed the grammatical errors, poor sentence structure and many\ntypos due to my disdain for using spell checker. It was raw but I assure you it\nwas 100% authentic to who I am. That is why in writing this I told Brian one\nthing, don\u2019t edit this. Why change now right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For any of you out there thinking you can\u2019t do something\nlike this you are wrong. You can do it! All you need to have is the passion and\ndesire and you can make it happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My five years have allowed me to do things I always thought\nwas a dream, going to E3, going to Singapore to cover the launch of a new\nsmartphone. Those are memories I\u2019ll never forget but what resonates greater is\nagain your support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout 2019 something stuck with me that I couldn\u2019t\nshake. I just wasn\u2019t getting content out and wasn\u2019t pulling my weight on the\nsite I created. I wanted to, I really did but my biggest achievement in life is\nbeing a Husband and Father and the reality was that time working on CultureJam\nwas time I couldn\u2019t spend with my family and so I made the tough decision to\nleave CultureJam in the hands of Brian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that change of leadership and ownership comes a new\nera, gone is CultureJam and in comes 8Bit Island. A fresh start with a unique\nkiwicentric identity and I know it is going to be great beyond anything I could\nhave made of CultureJam. There is no one more passionate about this stuff than\nBrian and as much as I hate to admit it the guy is the most talented writer\nI\u2019ve come across. Brian has put together a great team and I completely trust\nwhat he is doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again thank you so much everyone, this has truly been a\npleasure. On that note there is only one last thing to say, Good afternoon,\ngood evening and goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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