They wanted to write hard hitting commentary and "find the truth" at NYT or Washington ComPost but the only outlets that would employ them were pop culture ones.
Therefore, they use their job as a way to live out their failed dreams, hence the big push for politics at these websites that were supposed to just entertain people.
I’ll never understand why they think gamers want their unsolicited political commentary
They wanted to write hard hitting commentary and "find the truth" at NYT or Washington ComPost but the only outlets that would employ them were pop culture ones.
Therefore, they use their job as a way to live out their failed dreams, hence the big push for politics at these websites that were supposed to just entertain people.
That has to be it. Because these people give these pretentious lectures about how everything has to address some major issue