The thing I immediately noticed when perusing the assembled professional reviews for DAV on metacritic is that I have never heard of more than half of these outlets. Upon further inspection, most of them are tiny and overtly leftist platforms giving bonus points for purely ideological reasons. I have no idea what qualifies a website to feature in this collection, but it’s obviously not size of readership.

Point being: none of these “professional critics” are any more qualified to give reviews than your average YouTuber, and the latter tends to have far more viewers and influence. So what we have is an astroturfed consensus from a bunch of activists whom nobody reads or respects, and yet this somehow constitutes the bill of “professional appraisal” of our entertainment products?

These people used to infiltrate and hide behind major banners like IGN and Gamespot. Those outlets are still woke and retarded, but now they are surrounded by a ton of upstart progressive leftist websites with no business telling gamers - or anyone - what to think. The metacritic system has been completely captured.