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Right? Like absolute ages ago, I actually seriously cared about ethics in game journalism. I still do, but recognize it's a very minor issue in the scheme of things.
It's absurd that there were industry mailing lists/chatrooms where people were asking other journos to cut their friend's game a break, people reviewing games built by their drinking buddies without even mentioning the personal relationship in passing, and (game) companies using their (often piss poor) representation of marginalized groups to try and silence valid non-bigoted criticism.
So I fell into GamerGate for a while. For a bit despite the behinning, they seemed to be primarily focused on getting journos to use responsible disclosure. I'm glad that trend mostly caught on.
It's so frustrating that it ended up being a vehicle for "anti-woke", racism, and misogyny to become openly acceptable to a whole chunk of people.