This is all depressing, but there is some hope to hang onto. It's important to understand that Gamergate failed.
It really didn't. Gamergate lead directly to the Adpocolypse. The entire advertising rate for gaming dropped through the floor.
YouTube would not monetize game videos that were not Roblox or Fortnight. Roblox and Fortnight got more and more popular (subscribe to Pewdiepie) and at least a couple high budget AAA games failed, including Battlefield 1; largely because Native Advertising (worth hundreds of millions of dollars) evaporated overnight.
The entire industry of gaming journalism and its partner, game industry advertising, had the rug pulled out from underneath it. A little down the track media empires were no longer profitable and got sold. Some of them twice.
Calling Gamergate a failure first requires someone to lie about what it was, then lie about what happened next. ... so standard practice for Salon.
It really didn't. Gamergate lead directly to the Adpocolypse. The entire advertising rate for gaming dropped through the floor.
YouTube would not monetize game videos that were not Roblox or Fortnight. Roblox and Fortnight got more and more popular (subscribe to Pewdiepie) and at least a couple high budget AAA games failed, including Battlefield 1; largely because Native Advertising (worth hundreds of millions of dollars) evaporated overnight.
The entire industry of gaming journalism and its partner, game industry advertising, had the rug pulled out from underneath it. A little down the track media empires were no longer profitable and got sold. Some of them twice.
Calling Gamergate a failure first requires someone to lie about what it was, then lie about what happened next. ... so standard practice for Salon.