The only thing they have to combat their own irrelevance is the spectre of GamerGate. They're never going to win gamers back as an audience, and so their only potential source of revenue is left-wing outrage, and any callback to GG provides the motivation they think they need to attract that kind of traffic to their sites.
All they had to do was say nothing.
The only thing they have to combat their own irrelevance is the spectre of GamerGate. They're never going to win gamers back as an audience, and so their only potential source of revenue is left-wing outrage, and any callback to GG provides the motivation they think they need to attract that kind of traffic to their sites.