I mean I am certainly not feeling a great deal of pain for the oligarch owners of Ramblr Media Group, but the individual staffers who have managed to keep Russian LJ alive for average Russians after all this time and its reputation as an independent social media site for troublemakers have my sympathy. Even if they haven't generally been able to do a great job of it.

(I think maybe a lot of people have forgotten/don't know the beginning of this story? LJ is owned by Russians in the first place because it has a huge Russian userbase and in the early 2000s was home to a lot of the loudest anti-Putin voices in Russia. More of that than you'd think is still up if you know how to navigate Russian LJ. LJ's owners are not worried about the English fan fiction, they care about the Russian dissident bloggers. And in some cases, the Russian dissident fan fiction. I also care about the Russian dissident bloggers and the Russian dissident fans. Russian fandom is going through some shit right now as you'd guess.)