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Influencers is such a better system. I think two things sealed the fate of gaming journalists: (1) the Internet killed journalism revenues, and (2) the Internet
by jart 2y ago
Influencers is such a better system. I think two things sealed the fate of gaming journalists: (1) the Internet killed journalism revenues, and (2) the Internet showed gaming journalists what their fans are really like. A lot of them couldn't handle the double whammy and spent their twilight years using all their power and influence to destroy their readership, sort of like how Hitler tried to destroy Germany on the way out. I wouldn't call that quality and I doubt anyone misses them.
- eropple 2y agoIn this analogy, game journalists are your Hitler equivalent? I guess there's an epistemic closure where it certainly wasn't The Gamers who decided to have a pretty massive case of "any woman in gamedev must be a slut and feminists are destroying video games" for half a decade, but that closure has little bearing on reality.
- jcaatpoc 2y ago[dead]