Starting and running Aftermath has taken a ton of work, and we couldn't have done it alone. We’ve been lucky to have the counsel of so many friends and colleagues who paved the way, including Jack Mirkinson and Aleks Chan from Discourse, Matt Hardigree of The Autopian, Hell Gate's Max Rivlin-Nadler and Nadia Tykulsker, Defector's Jasper Wang and Sean Kuhn, Jason Koebler and Samantha Cole at 404, Chase Taylor-Carter and Rowan Zeoli from Rascal, and Remap's Patrick Klepek and Rob Zacny.
Our amazing logos were created by Andrew Elmore. Our staff portraits were originally illustrated by Doubleleaf, and more recently by Kim Hu. Front page icons by Mehwish.
We couldn't have launched without the support of Lede, who created the 2023 version of the site, provided vital tech support throughout our first two years of operation and were just generally a huge help whenever we needed it. The version of the site you're reading this on now is brought to you by the wonderful people at Ghost and Outpost.
As bloggers who’ve had to turn into businesspeople, we've received invaluable advice from Anna Flewelling, Parag Rajendra Khandhar of Gilmore Khandhar, Lex Roman, the folks at Capital Bookkeeping Cooperative and ABC (A Bookkeeping Cooperative), Lawyers for Reporters, the New York Small Business Development Center, Jessie Rose Lee, and Courtney Waid of First Turn Operations.
We couldn’t do any of this if not for all of our friends and peers in games journalism and beyond, who put up with so much to make great work in ever more trying circumstances. If there’s a future for this industry–and clearly we think there is!--it’s because all of you are fighting for it every day, and lifting each other up in the process.
And finally, we couldn't do it without our subscribers, particularly the Benefactor tier, a group that includes:
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