@RustyCrab@icedquinn@Moon@teratology They were shocked at the level of outlets that got involved. Like NBC News, BBC, Stephen Colbert, etc. didn't have anything else to report on? The UN got involved? It was just bizarre to see the levels at which establishment ran interference for some uggo that was banging people shilling her game. I think they expected the shitpieces from woke games journalists, but not the mainstream media.
Note that it wasn't sex-for-reviews, I honestly think it was a case of games journalists and indie devs literally being in bed with one another, like a polycule, and just them trying to elevate each others' content. Still very corrupt, but just favoritism rather than quid pro quo. Also, if Gamergate did lose, it was a pyrrhic victory, since the whole thing brainbroke journalists and they started covering Trump like they did Gamergate, which shattered the public's trust in them.