I believe that this was what the death of gamers articles, and all the other crap, was meant to do: distract us.  Keep in mind that we are dealing with marketeers, corrupt marketeers, so they know how to get people's attention. After all, why did it matter so much what brinna wu said? Yet oddly enough, she would always do something stupid outrageous and everyone would focus on that.  Meanwhile, the corrupt parties were busy either scamming indie devs, shifting records, or pretty much trying to keep their operation going. I think they were also trying to capitalize on the whole "gamers are mean" scenario. Its something scammers do, when they realize that they may get caught, they get bold.  So they demonized everyone who caught them, so that they would not be credible, and can further sell their narrative.  the drawback to this, is that they are operating somewhat in the open. So all we have to do is find some money trails, and that is not going to be a problem, because there are a lot of failed games, by devs associated with silverstring media. devs who paid money they did not have, for consulting services by macintosh and sarkesian, that did not do anything for them.