nononick replied to your post “Gamergate stuff seems to be finally dying down but I Still see some...”
Gamergate on twitter is stronger than ever, 8chan has replaced 4chan as a place to talk about it, and a bunch of proof is being sorted out from the gamejournolist. Also no, reviews are the product people are the consumer.
No, reviews are the bait. Readers might be "the consumers" of reviews but in the same way that a cow is the consumer of grass on a field. Advertisers pay the bills and you're being produce being sold to them. In fact, this is almost the law of "Free services" (anything google for example) and it's so transparent that twitter and tumblr and many startups work under the premise of "Get users now, monetize later".
You might think "Same thing! Either way, they don't get any money unless we show up!" but it's really not the same thing. Back in the day, we had all-or-nothing approval of the gaming magazines we got. Either we kept paying for them, or we didn't and pissed off readers were often hard to get back. A free online service is different. How many do we know who "read Kotaku"? I'm guessing not many and a lot of people we know hate Kotaku. But when an article comes around about that either pisses us off or that everyone is talking about, we click the link because it costs us nothing. Then we go "God I hate Kotaku" and close the window, and Kotaku still made their money. Wanna know why clickbait is a thing? Wanna know why reviews get influenced to came publishers and not readers and why a lot of gaming journalsim is the way it is?
This is why. You're not the customer, you're the product and you're the product because advertisers are willing to pay more than you are.
