I also blame him for windowscentralgaming "journalists" losing their jobs.
Console warriors / brandboys are a negative force, they don't provide or foster valuable meaningful honest feedback and just echo bullshit that eventually drives brand values to zero.
It's a legitimate threat that needs to be corrected. Like, today, like immediately.
It doesn't extend to just public guys there's a whole network of moderation, anonymous commercial PR brigades etc across spaces that fosters this bullshit across the web.
Big portion of the influence scene seems a bit tainted.
Eventually honest people will just start spontaneously laughing at how retarded the arrangement is. It's so painfully fucking dated too, try something new, holy shit.
Applies to Sony too, you're basically business partners at this point, knock this shit off before nature deletes both your brands.
Intangables, the good shit, the magic dust you build empires with, are lost in manupilation. Why do you think it's so easy to spike it and games with divisive politics? Because you made it easy.
The GaaS vibe has been a disaster in new ways too because it spawned a catch-all audience culture of leaders that eventually leaked to non GaaS projects and marketing. Nobody outside of these specific spaces find any of this charismatic. It's fucking repulsive.
Something tells me these corpo guys thought they were James Bonds of marketing, and hot shit, and suddenly they just kind of lost control one day.
Legacy systems will always be increasingly inviting for exploitation, the price you pay is value.
How do you fix this? I don't fucking know, maybe start by decoupling your corporation from weirdos. Internal and external. Then go fangs out via legal. Your money, your hole, your problem, man.