You live in the age of the walled garden corporate internet. The time you remember of a half dozen search engines, each actually requiring going through multiple pages, and investing effort into figuring out which of two dozen different fansites you found from culling though those were actually good is gone.

Most of that lazy approach lies at the feet of many more people getting easy pocket access to the internet with smartphones, which are much harder and slower to navigate with. Easy first answers and whatever friends recommend get much more popular and sort of turn into black holes catching any other created sites in their orbit and crunching things down to one central source.

As plenty of other people have now explained, once you have that one centrally located critical mass that destroys the ability to have any other reasonable population site discussing something, it turns into a tempting target for outside predators and parasites looking to turn "we discuss this game" into "you must repeat the right politics first if you also want to talk about this game on the side."