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@BCC_Mitchell, who worked at VICE for five years, says a male video editor…

2026-08-05 · 19:14 UTC ·@PirateWires ·1 min read

Brief

PirateWires relays @BCC_Mitchell’s five-year account of VICE at its 2010s peak, alleging HR misconduct (an HR director GChatted sexual solicitations), routine drug use and sex-related behavior in the CEO’s screening room, and a CEO-ordered attic lockdown to quash reporting on bestiality tied to Gloria Steinem and Google’s CEO — portraying VICE’s billion-dollar rise as chaotic and abusive.

Why it matters

@BCC_Mitchell, who worked at VICE for five years, says a male video editor received anonymous GChat requests to have gay sex and later discovered the sender was VICE’s HR director after complaining to HR.

Key details

  • Mitchell alleges editors invited them to smoke a blunt in the CEO’s screening room and watch Octomom’s porno, and that several nights female writers snorted lines while Mitchell held their hair back.
  • Mitchell claims the CEO ordered a German executive to lock staff in an attic to stop reporting on bestiality because it 'offended Gloria Steinem and the CEO of Google' during a yacht trip; the thread frames VICE’s 2010s rise from tiny hipster magazine to a billion-dollar company as a 'business case study and psychotic millennial fever dream.'
Source evidence

What was life like as a VICE employee at the company’s peak in the 2010s?

Some anecdotes from @BCC_Mitchell, who worked there for five years:

• “A male video editor vented about someone anonymously Gchatting him asking to have gay sex. (He later complained to HR and learned it was the HR director Gchatting him.)”

• “Editors invited me to smoke a blunt in [the CEO’s] screening room and watch Octomom’s porno. Several nights, the female writers let me hold their hair back as they snorted lines.”

• The CEO “ordered a German executive to lock the staff in an attic so we would no longer write about bestiality because it offended Gloria Steinem and the CEO of Google when he sailed with them on a yacht.”

Read the fascinating and insane piece on Vice’s growth from a tiny hipster magazine to a billion-dollar media company — equal parts business case study and psychotic millennial fever dream. 👇