I didn’t see the original 5 guys post. For me it was the “gamers are dead” articles that opened my eyes.
Then I saw the same playbook in comicsgate and sad puppies. All that was prelude to 2016.
Then I started thinking back and saw that the rot started a long time before that. Like the day I realized every single article on io9 was about being gay, black, or female. Or a gay black female. Or that time Scientific American had a message from the editor saying that they were going to “make a stand” and be political… but the articles already were.
Then I started thinking back and saw that the rot started a long time before that.
This is the step a lot of people miss. Sure it takes something of them and theirs being affected to finally wake up to what is going on, but not many then take it beyond that event and ask whether it's been happening beforehand. Far too many will follow the Gell-Mann amnesia effect and compartmentalise a problem which offers the leading cause too much leeway in escaping appropriate scrutiny.
I didn’t see the original 5 guys post. For me it was the “gamers are dead” articles that opened my eyes.
Then I saw the same playbook in comicsgate and sad puppies. All that was prelude to 2016.
Then I started thinking back and saw that the rot started a long time before that. Like the day I realized every single article on io9 was about being gay, black, or female. Or a gay black female. Or that time Scientific American had a message from the editor saying that they were going to “make a stand” and be political… but the articles already were.
This is the step a lot of people miss. Sure it takes something of them and theirs being affected to finally wake up to what is going on, but not many then take it beyond that event and ask whether it's been happening beforehand. Far too many will follow the Gell-Mann amnesia effect and compartmentalise a problem which offers the leading cause too much leeway in escaping appropriate scrutiny.
how about the blatantly pay-for-play "reviews" in EGM back in the nineties...
how about the blatantly pay-for-play "reviews" in EGM back in the nineties...