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TR Announcement: Hello, I Must Be Going

TR Announcement: Hello, I Must Be Going

By November 5, 2012 Miscellaneous 0 Comment

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I regret to inform you guys that this will be my last week as editor of ToplessRobot.com. I’ll be joining io9.com as a senior editor on November 19th, where I’ll be doing much the same work as I am here, albeit hopefully with a bit more professionalism. Topless Robot will continue on without me, although it’s too soon to say exactly how or with who.

I certainly hope you’ll follow me there (if you aren’t reading them already) although I also hope you keep reading Topless Robot, too. I can’t tell you how hard it was to make this decision, because Topless Robot‘s been my life, my site, my baby for the last five years. But there comes a point when a man needs to give his baby to a stranger and abandon it, and I have reached that point with Topless Robot. A ton of factors went into my decision, but the long and short of it is that I don’t think I’ve been giving TR my all recently, and part of that is because I need a new challenge. This happened to be it. I wish nothing but success for Topless Robot and everyone who was, is or will be part of it, and again, I sincerely hope you’ll stick around.
I’m going to do a real farewell post on Friday — after a very special FFF, and maybe a couple of other surprises, if this week doesn’t get too crazy — but I want to thank you guys, from the bottom of my heart, for making TR the success that it’s been, and thank you for making the last five years of my life possible. I’ll put TR‘s community up against anybody for having the best, most thoughtful, most good-natured readers on the nerdernets.
All right, I’ll save the gooey stuff for Friday. I just wanted to give you guys the heads-up. Again, thank you for everything.

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.