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Riana MP 💜

@therianamp.bsky.social

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Content Creator and Games Marketing Maven | Former @WhatsGoodGames @ZebraPartners @Xbox @G4TV | she/her

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · Nov 10

Riana Manuel-Peña here 💜 I do a bunch of stuff from branding to video games marketing to content creation. Also love helping people find opportunities!

CEO, D&R Media Consulting
Previously: What's Good Games, Zebra Partners, G4, Xbox, healthcare (lolz)

Married to @godfree
BFFs with my inner child

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimate Vault Hunting with @itskahlief.bsky.social !

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Riana's Streaming Again? Borderlands UVH Mode Grind To Level 50

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · 3d

The red carpet for Tron:Ares!
#redcarpet #premiere #tron #movie

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Danny Peña @godfree.bsky.social · 15d

Our first joint writing credit on a video game as D&R Media Consulting! Proud of what @therianamp.bsky.social and I have achieved. NBA Bounce, a family friendly basketball game, releases tomorrow.

Thanks to Outright Games and the NBA for giving us the opportunity for being part of this project.

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · 4d

Gotta keep it a buck

Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · 4d

I finally made it out of the house (and onto the red carpet) for the Tron: Aries World Premiere!

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · 8d

Come see me in the Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Beta! 1st game of Domination was a breezeeeeeee 💁🏾‍♀️

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · 15d

You're worth it.

Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · 15d

Please reach out, even when its hard. Be brave.

Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our quick weekend trip didn't go quite as planned. After an unexpected, life-saving emergency surgery I'm now home and taking the next steps to heal physically and emotionally with my family. I'm still working, but taking things slow. Send funny memes and tasty recipes 💜

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks, Danny 💜

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Danny Peña @godfree.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm so proud of @therianamp.bsky.social for writing her first blog post for the ESRB Parent's Guide. Check it out!

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A Parent’s Guide to Monopoly Go!

ESRB has tips and resources to help you make sure your kids safely and appropriately pass go in Monopoly Go! on mobile.

www.esrb.org

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · Aug 22

Going live in 3 minutes!
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Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · Aug 22

Check out this week's episode!
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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · Aug 14

Come hang if you're bored!
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I Guess This Is an Announcement?

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Greg Miller @gameovergreggy.bsky.social · Aug 6

Today, Kinda Funny takes a HUGE step in our 10-year journey: we’re collaborating with Russ Frushtick, formerly the co-founder of Polygon. Russ will be heading up our partnership business, so if you’re interested in advertising, sponsorships, or custom series, hit up [email protected]!

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Russ Frushtick @russfrushtick.bsky.social · Aug 6

So excited to finally share this! Couldn't be more in awe of this crew and I'm pumped to be working with them on some truly awesome stuff.

Kinda Funny @kindafunnyvids.bsky.social · Aug 6

A picture of all of KF (except Barrett, he was seeing family) with Russ

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Ashley Eskeleton @ashleyesqueda.com · Aug 4

If you are a video person who was laid off today and knows how to shoot on location, please email me. I don't have a lot of work, but we will need videographers from time to time and I want to know you.

IGN Union @ignunion.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild.

This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public.

The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events.

Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts.

At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical.

This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech.

While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

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Riana MP 💜 @therianamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Ariana, what are you doing here!? Lol I don't usually fangirl, but I love Ariana Madix and she was so sweet to do this (it really lifted my spirits)! Thank you gorgeous girl✨️!