This is actually one of the core lessons of GamerGate:
The attack on their audience using Social Justice was a mechanism to polarize their audiences and prevent them from being pulled over to YouTubers doing Playthroughs.
The fostering a Leftist ideological capture of an institution, was actually secondary to the problem of games journalism. They've never actually recovered their exclusive "access journalism" pass. Instead, the companies themselves (if small) will just send games to common YouTubers and video streamers, and (if large) will just recruit those individuals as "brand ambassadors" (IE: corporate propagandists).
Places like Kotaku and Polygon have been held together with major investors and duct tape ever since.
This is actually one of the core lessons of GamerGate:
The attack on their audience using Social Justice was a mechanism to polarize their audiences and prevent them from being pulled over to YouTubers doing Playthroughs.
The fostering a Leftist ideological capture of an institution, was actually secondary to the problem of games journalism. They've never actually recovered their exclusive "access journalism" pass. Instead, the companies themselves (if small) will just send games to common YouTubers and video streamers, and (if large) will just recruit those individuals as "brand ambassadors" (IE: corporate propagandists).
Places like Kotaku and Polygon have been held together with major investors and duct tape ever since.