The website The Awl and its sister site The Hairpin are shutting down. The two sites always valued lively, thoughtful writing — even as the media landscape shifted around them.

The Hairpin was a beloved indie women's interest website that ran from 2010 to 2018. Something happened where the domain owners didn't renew it in time, and a DJ bought it.

Beloved women’s website The Hairpin shut down in 2018. This month it returned from the dead to churn out AI clickbait. Its fate is a warning to all digital publications.