“Nothing about Vice's journey makes sense. Nothing about it is a 'playbook' that any other media company could actually follow. It's completely fucking weird and not algorithmic and shouldn't have worked. And that's why, whether it always follows the rules of journalism or not, Vice is a real media c…”— Sarah Lacy, pando.com
“When you have a platform as powerful as what we've invented (a.k.a. the Internet), it is a crying shame when it's used for cat videos.”— Patrick Chung, allthingsd.com