FYI Sterolizer, the other posters are absolutely correct in that Gamefaqs' post-2010 decline is primarily due to the decline of message boards as a medium iin favor of social media. The late implementation of inlined images probably didn't help, but I doubt it had a significant effect in the long run. Overall, Gamefaqs has performed incredibly well-- probably within the top 1% range compared to other message boards-- in all likelihood that is almost entirely due to the FAQs and the game/system pages keeping it afloat. I don't think anyone disagrees that an iphone app would help a little bit.

As has been pointed out, and as everyone knows, younger generations have very different tastes than the older ones. As you yourself said, let's plays and video guides are the big thing with younger generations. Hell, Zoomers don't even like Twitter, Youtube, or Facebook anymore, they like TikTok and Instagram. I doubt that there is anything which can change this; it's akin to brainstorming attempts to bring millennials back to cable news, talk radio, print media, and the weather channel. Okay, yes, there are differences (with the younger generations it's more of a personal taste and iphone compatibility vs obsolescence in the case of millennials. More than half of the remaining advantage of newspapers is their utility after you are done reading them.)

FYI, I totally get that this is a hobby and obsession for you. No judgement from me there, I have obsessions as well.