Vice Media

The embattled “news organization” was holding a town hall where chief content officer Cory Haik was giving an update on a recent round of layoffs when the angry “thumbs down” emotes started flooding the stream from disgruntled employees.

That’s when CEO Bruce Dixon cut in–while Haik was still talking–to say “It’s impossible to ignore the emojis from our side. And I think we’re going to organize this in a way where we can actually give the information to people who want to receive it in the way it’s meant,” he continued. “Thank you for your time and your presence in terms of trying to explain that. I think let’s progress with our own town halls on this. Thank you for all the questions we have received, we’ll do our best to answer those in a forum that makes sense for this company.”