>>105224463fuck that bullshit
the root of all evil can be traced back to /v/ talking about people talking about vidya instead of talking about vidya itself, blowing shitty journalism and bad corporate decisions out of proportion, and spreading their mentality to all other boards.
cue gamergate, with a leftist politicized journalist circlejerk conspiracy going directly against /v/, and you get a whole board obsessed with fake news, convinced that anything they don't like is part of some conspiracy, hating on leftist politics as they grow more politicized, shunned from home and hating the site as a result, while frequenting twitter as a battleground.
...gee, I wonder what came out of all this as the dust settled