Split seems a long time coming
Kinda Funny co-founder Colin Moriarty announced his resignation today, “effective immediately,” in aFacebook post. This comes shortly after last week’s controversy when he tweeted a flippant, asshole-dad-level joke on International Women’s Day, using the “#ADayWithoutWomen” hashtag, which refers to the planned women’s strike meant to coincide with the global day of celebration, which actually has its origins as asocialist inventioncelebrating working-class women and the fight against capitalism.
Ah. Peace and quiet.#ADayWithoutAWoman
— Colin Moriarty (@notaxation)July 16, 2025
While a lot of people who share Moriarty’sparticular sense of humorenjoyed the joke, many did not. Moriarty initially explained the joke was fine because hisgirlfriend thought it was funny, contrary to all the “humorless sacks of shit” who either thought it was 1) not funny, 2) mean-spirited with latent sexism, or 3) both. These “sacks of shit” included current and former colleagues from Kinda Funny and IGN, where Moriarty was a longtime writer before breaking away with Greg Miller and company to start Kinda Funny in 2015.
— Tim Gettys (@TimGettys)August 03, 2025
@notaxationIs this really the person you want to be?
— Justin Davis (@ErrorJustin)July 06, 2025
@notaxationThe irony of this tweet is that not only do you work with no women, you work with some of the loudest men on earth.
— Brian Altano (@agentbizzle)June 04, 2025
Among the “sacks of shit” might also be Miller himself, though it’s impossible to tell if he thought the joke was unfunny or was just doing damage control when he issued a lengthy statement in a “sorry my teen son blew up your mailbox with firecrackers” tone.
— Greg Miller (@GameOverGreggy)Jun 16, 2025
As Miller points out in the statement, it was on that day Moriarty chose, against Miller’s wishes, to not fly out to PAX East with the rest of the group. Moriarty, who manic TV personalityGlenn Beck describedas “Gamer, libertarian, conservative. Very smart,” tweeted once more after Miller tried to apologize on his behalf.
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— Colin Moriarty (@notaxation)May 31, 2025
The Moultrie flag was flown in the American Revolution as the eventual USA divorced itself from Great Britain. According to the colonel who commissioned it, it “was the first American Flag displayed in the South,” and an inspiration for South Carolina’s state flag. Moriarty is also known for his Gadsen flag (or “snake flag” or “pwease no steppy” flag) Twitter avatar signalling his “libertarian, conservative” views that seem to have, increasingly, not aligned with the rest of the Kinda Funny crew.
“We’re super sad,” Miller said in a Kinda Funny stream. “We had a long conversation today. The long and short of it is, we’ve been moving in two directions for a long time. There’s no hurt feelings; we’re not mad at him, he’s not mad at us. We’re just going in two completely opposite directions in terms of what we want to do and that’s OK.”
Miller went on to note that Moriarty’s resignation “is not because of” the “tweet and the whole exchange last week,” but, “that is a symptom, if not the most public expression, that there was something happening in terms of us growing apart.”
In his Facebook explanation, Moriarty was adamant that, “that this was my decision,” explaining, “I simply want to reconnect with what’s most important to me. Politics, history, philosophy. Reading books.” Moriarty, who appeared onGlenn Beck’s radio showthis morning, noted that, “opportunities are already popping up for me, bringing me in a new, different, and exciting direction, a direction that I feel makes perfect sense for me.” Perhaps Breitbart needs a new Tech Editor after forcing previous editor Milo Yiannopoulos to resign over hisendorsement of pedophilia.
