Gatekeeping is the most retarded concept ever and is one of the reasons why we're in this shit today.

First, gatekeeping is a defeatist attitude. You must educate normies and try to uplift them, thus proliferating the proper culture. Wanking alone in the corner is not the answer.

Second, you can't really gatekeep IPs you don't own. Duh.

Third, the only thing that keeping "normies" out achieved was making the fandoms stagnant and vulnerable to woke totalitarian sect. Whereas nerds are mostly asocial, mostly hate each other and so can't pose any kind of seriously organized front, sect by definition is organized and very, very effective. Which is why they stomped all your efforts easily.

Third kinda contradicts the first, ofc - it's hard for nerds and geeks to beat anyone at organized effort. But just conceding without even trying certainly didn't help.