What may disaster happened now? And other than the snap what may disasters have happened?
I honestly can't remember the exact May Disasters in the years since 2023 but there seems to be a pattern with big bad things happening in May as I recall joking about it year after year. If I had the time and the brainspace I'd look it up but for now you'll have to do with a very vague "several years in a row, big bad things happened in May".
This year the drama is on World of Supernatural. The site leaders were fired for reasons I'm not sure of, multiple members of staff quit in solidarity and now the site is closing on May 31 because for some reason, no one wanted to step up and take over the leadership after the previous leaders were fired and multiple staff members left with them. There are definitely some similarities with the Great Firing in May 2023, albeit on a smaller scale.
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Another sus thing that's going on is that some sites that were closed down in the last 5 years have suddenly made posts on social media that they're looking for people to revive the sites. Which sounds like a good thing, at least at first glance, but if you scratch the surface you'll find a long list of questions, uncertainty and doubt. The sites closed because they failed, and the reasons for the failures are many and complex. It's not just the site leaders and their management that is to blame for a site's failure (sometimes they are not to blame at all), it's also on the mugwump in charge of supporting the site.
Unless all of those factors of failure has been addressed and solved, reopening the sites will just lead to another failure and closing. And the closing of World of Supernaturals indicates that the upper management (mugwumps & site owner) still hasn't quite figured out how to keep the smaller sites alive and afloat, much less safe and thriving.
And it has to be asked: are the previous staff of these sites involved in the process of reopening them? Or is this an initiative taken without their involvement? I hope it's not the latter, because that'd be a pretty nasty slap in the face to people who built the sites in the first place.
