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.
Never thought I'd be here ten years later, but the horrors persist and so do I.
Here's to another ten.
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.
how about the blatantly pay-for-play "reviews" in EGM back in the nineties...