Creators who made the things that comments in this thread said they liked about Vice "back when it was good", and where they are now:

- Suroosh Alvi, documentaries on Pakistan. Vice co-founder. VICE season 4 on Showtime.

- Simon Ostrovsky, Russian Roulette on Ukraine. Now with PBS NewsHour; most recent story on US company Haas Automation working with the Russian arms industry. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/american-company-accused-o...

- Henry Langston, Russian Roulette on Ukraine. Founded Change Incorporated under the VICE umbrella. Freelanced for Huffpost and still occasionally for Vice.

- Isobel Yeung, Putin's Crimea, Syria war, 2017 Philippines armed forces embed. Still at Vice. VICE season 4 on Showtime.

- Maya Rostowska, documentaries on Ukraine. Still at Vice.

- Rick McCrank, Abandoned (2016), Post Radical (2018). Was then and still is a pro skateboarder and skateshop owner. Co-owns skate wheel company Momentum. Probably on a skateboard in Vancouver right now. https://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/2022/09/chrome-ball-...

- Esteban Sheridan Cárdenas, Edith Valle. Look at These Fucking Boots. Sheridan founded music festival Norte Sonoro, then later a live-event production company. Valle is a freelance cinematographer: https://edithvalle.com/

- Eddie Huang. Directed Boogie (2021), currently writer/executive producer of upcoming series Panda on Showtime. Guested on Joe Rogan a month ago to talk about Vice.

- Daniel Michael Hernández, Munchies; Oaxacan shrooms. Left Vice in 2017. Relaunched L.A. Taco, then became food editor of the Los Angeles Times.

- Jake Hanrahan. "Is Bitcoin the Future of Money, or Just the Future of Buying Internet Drugs?", 2012; also covered Turkey, Ukraine for Vice in 2015–16. Left Vice in 2017 "due to differences with the new management's editorial direction". Freelanced on Atomwaffen Division for Documenting Hate with Frontline PBS/ProPublica, then founded Popular Front: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5reApl_5YtfqNEEQi5L8GQ

- Max Daly, 2019 series on drugs and crime. Still Vice's global drugs editor.

- Nagieb Khaja, 2015 Afghanistan coverage. Danish documentarian, still active.

- Ben John Anderson. This Is What Winning Looks Like (2013) and The Interpreters (2014) in Afghanistan, Fighting ISIS (2016). Suffers from PTSD. Was still working with Vice in 2022, as an executive producer on One-Armed Chef.

- David Choe. Scrapping (2014). An artist before and after Vice. Had a cameo in The Mandalorian, The Choe Show podcast got to FX with Andy Capper, and he now has a role in the Steven Yeun/Ali Wong Netflix show Beef.

- Andy Capper. Director, Scrapping, Vice Guide to Liberia, Krokodil Tears. Also did Lil Bub & Friendz, Chiraq, and Noisey's hour-long geographical docuemntaries for Vice. Most recently made People Like You about the opioid epidemic in 2022 for Happy Now Film/Malibu.

All of the videos in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35945196 are from the last 9 or so months, so no point in "where are they now"-ing them.

The exodus around 2017 around the time of two big changes: the June 2017 TPG $450M investment that valued Vice at around $5-6 billion: https://www.wsj.com/articles/vice-media-secures-450-million-...

Followed by the December 2017 NYT investigative report into alleged sexual harassment that turned over several of Vice's producers and editorial staff, including the head of Vice's documentary films unit, who had settled a lawsuit over alleged retaliation and had already been fired even before the report came out: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/business/media/vice-sexua...