There are many kinds of media burnout, but none are quite like “people who wrote about Game of Thrones.” For The Verge, Kevin Nguyen revisits the heady exhausting days when digital outlets would chase the fantasy saga’s page-view bounty. Say what you will about the death of monoculture, but at least such a phenomenon is unlikely to darken our doorsteps again.
“I would try and have at least one article published that night, if not more, if I could sleep for a few hours. It was an adrenaline rush on Sunday nights for sure,” she said, recounting the experience excitedly. “I would sleep a little bit, wake up early, get to the office, sometimes rewatch the episode again in the morning just to sort of soak it in, especially if it was a good one. And then, yeah, I would really try and write as many articles as I could between Sunday night and Tuesday evening” — the publishing “sweet spot,” according to Renfro.
That first season of her coverage, she published over 150 stories. As she continued, she kept pushing. By the end of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones in 2019, she estimates she had published hundreds more.
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Game of Thrones concluded in May 2019. Since then, Renfro says she has been “a consistent therapy attender.”
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