Defector Has Outlived These Things

Five years is a long time to exist. Let's take a moment to remember some things Defector has outlived:

1. Quibi
2. Tony Bennett
3. Corporate DEI initiatives
4. Henry Kissinger
5. Investment in mRNA vaccines
6. WTF with Marc Maron
7. The second XFL
8. The Biden administration
9. Queen Elizabeth II
10. The Hawk Tuah girl's cryptocurrency
11. The Messenger
12. The name "Twitter"
13. Zach Wilson's career as a starter
14. Netflix's DVD delivery service
15. The Cracker Barrel rebrand
16. That guy who tried to shoot Donald Trump
17. Mango Juul pods
18. Ozy Media
19. AOL dial-up service
20. Jimmy Carter
21. The Eras Tour
22. Excitement about social audio apps like Clubhouse, Amp, and Twitter Spaces
23. The Dallas Mavericks' championship window
24. The right to reproductive autonomy
25. HBO's "Max" rebrand
26. Web 3.0
27. The Arizona Coyotes
28. The Metaverse
29. The TikTok ban
30. Pete Rose
31. Silicon Valley Bank
32. Kim and Kanye's marriage
33. Party City
34. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
35. Urban Meyer's NFL coaching career
36. Pope Francis
37. The tenure of three different Manchester United managers, soon to be four
38. Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
39. The Star Wars hotel
40. The political tenure of Liz Truss, and also the lettuce that outlived that
41. The Barstool Sportsbook
42. The G/O Media network
43. Flaco the Owl
44. Linda Yaccarino's tenure as CEO of Twitter
45. Jo-Ann Fabrics
46. The Oasis brothers' feud
47. The PGA-LIV Golf merger
48. The European Super League
49. Trump and Elon's bromance
50. The four-team College Football Playoff
51. The Oakland A's
52. Bill Belichick's credibility
53. Famous people pretending to care about Bored Apes
54. Hulk Hogan