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CoyoteTheGreat posted...

The funny thing is that when Gamergate was taking hold, games journalism actually wasn't the crap it is today. RockPaperShotgun had its original staff and was writing some really great journalism on gaming. Headlines were less click-baity. Articles were more substantive across the board. Gamergate did the exact opposite of what it set out to do. It let people write off criticism of games journalism as the domain of a bunch of incel neckbeards who want to lust over cartoon characters, and so the entire field was able to dive deep into its worst tendencies.

I think it kind of illustrates the need to always have the right criticism by the right people when there are problematic fields. If the wrong criticism by the wrong people is able to get all the oxygen, things will inevitably just get worst.

They tend to do they. Like if it is bad movie with a female or non white lead. They are going all in on that and not the badness of the movie. So people are going to write them off.