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Troubled Defy Media, owner of digital brands Smosh and Clever, has announced the closure of its production office in Beverly Hills, California, and the dismissal of 80 people by January 2, 2019.
The record "The subscriber of Google you are trying to reach is not available" was praised.
The company lost assets and laid off staff, which had 400 employees at its peak. Earlier this year, it sold its pop culture site, Screen Junkies, which has 8 million YouTube customers, to Fandom, owned by Wiki Inc., and the video game site Defy, Escapist, was sold to Enthusiast Gaming .
The news of the Los Angeles closure has been reported for the first time by the Tubefilter website.
Defy Media also had legal problems. Invited to face a complaint of sexual harassment, the company fired Screen Junkies founder Andy Signore in October 2017 for what the company had called "blatant and intolerable behavior" at the time.
Signore denied the allegations of harassment by a former trainee and filed a lawsuit in August for "negligent infliction of emotional distress" and claimed that Defy had ended his participation in the partnership without giving him the opportunity to counter the allegations.
Defy Media CEO Matt Diamond did not send a message via LinkedIn looking for comments on Tuesday's developments.
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