What is happening was inevitable. Most of us had forgotten GG by 2017/2018 because Acidman (and Niko before him) successfully managed to bury the movement through the mismanagement of its respective board on 8ch and chasing "PR" through talking heads like Milo Yiannapolis and zio-feminists like Christina Hoff Sommers rather than just going for the metaphorical jugular.
But the journos did not forget GG. They kept bringing it up and bringing it up. They got 'Intimidation Game' written for SVU ("Gamer Girls Go Home" if you can even recall that) and the Colbert appearances to manipulate public opinion (or what little existed since the internet was nowhere near as influential in everyday life as it is now), and then they kept dogpiling and twerking on it. Making sure the fire never died down and there was always a tiny little flame still burning for their perverse enjoyment.
When TLOU2 came out in 2020, the wheels began turning again. Millions of gamers rejected Cuckmann's fantasy. That Korean streamer who'd only lost his father recently cut up the disc. There was a definite split re-emerging.
And then in the last few months, SBI came to light. Gas was being released, and when journos went after Kabrutus, that was the spark needed to turn that tiny little fire into a raging inferno once more.
All they had to do was shut up about GG. But they didn't. Because they're predictable dumbasses.
What is happening was inevitable. Most of us had forgotten GG by 2017/2018 because Acidman (and Niko before him) successfully managed to bury the movement through the mismanagement of its respective board on 8ch and chasing "PR" through talking heads like Milo Yiannapolis and zio-feminists like Christina Hoff Sommers rather than just going for the metaphorical jugular.
But the journos did not forget GG. They kept bringing it up and bringing it up. They got 'Intimidation Game' written for SVU ("Gamer Girls Go Home" if you can even recall that) and the Colbert appearances to manipulate public opinion (or what little existed since the internet was nowhere near as influential in everyday life as it is now), and then they kept dogpiling and twerking on it. Making sure the fire never died down and there was always a tiny little flame still burning for their perverse enjoyment.
When TLOU2 came out in 2020, the wheels began turning again. Millions of gamers rejected Cuckmann's fantasy. That Korean streamer who'd only lost his father recently cut up the disc. There was a definite split re-emerging.
And then in the last few months, SBI came to light. Gas was being released, and when journos went after Kabrutus, that was the spark needed to turn that tiny little fire into a raging inferno once more.
All they had to do was shut up about GG. But they didn't. Because they're predictable dumbasses.