Back in the day a bunch of nerds (my friends) were inspired to start their own gaming website, because that's just one of those dreams you could have in the 00s. I was included as a contributor just because I wanted to support them but didn't want to put any stake in it.

I did about 3 reviews of games they gave me, games I couldn't have cared less about (one was a Strongbad one I remember) and it was near impossible to get through let alone not sound impossibly generic in writing. Like, I did it but it was very difficult and very very miserable.

Later, I'd spend some time as a ghost writer for WoW lore articles for various websites/blogs to slap some "actual name" from their site over and it was a cake walk. I could crank out thousands of words within 20 minutes because it was something I was passionate about.

So the plight of a games journo is understandable, but they are the retards who made that their job. So it still falls on them to either suck it up or get a new life.