So you guys are young, and you maybe don't know how things were back then. We're talking about the Obama administration years, so I wouldn't expect you to know. But back then, there was this concept going around of "New Media". The idea was that newspapers, and even cable TV channels were "Dinosaur Media" that was about to be replaced by always online journalism. And the same thing was in gaming media too. I don't know what you're talking about Twitch. Twitch was still Justin.tv at the start of Gamergate. And you didn't even have things like YouTube game reviewers yet. That hadn't really happened yet. Instead Kotaku, Polygon, Giant Bomb, these were the just about the only way people got game reviews.
And the hilarious joke about New Media is that it was trying to be EXACTLY like old media. These companies were just trying to be an always online version of Game Informer. They were trying to be magazines. EXCEPT when it came to ethics policies. Then they wanted to pretend to be hobby blogs again.
The lawsuit we brought against the Kotaku's parent company was for 50 million dollars. You think Kotaku is pulling in 50 million dollars these days, hell no. We accomplished a lot. Gawker Media no longer exists, these game journalism companies basically don't exist, with YouTube reviewers picking up the slack for them. And like do you know who Leigh Alexander is? Miss "I am gaming" Leigh Alexander? Of course you don't.
The problem is we crushed these people. 50 million dollars is a lot to come back from. But they have come back and this is what they've done to gaming and to the Internet.