I am now convinced that youtubers thrive on controversy and negative press.

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

Its pretty hard to be positive about the video game industry when the people who run it lurch from one breathtaking display of stupidity and greed to the next.

 

[ebalosus]

Because this controversy has it all; A major publisher being idiotic and tone-deaf, gaming media labeling gamers "entitled", gamers lashing out and hitting back, "censorship" with negative comments being removed and deleted, and even a possible case of "collusion" between Youtube and Blizzard with regards to dislikes being stealthy removed from the official Diablo Immortal video.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that all of the above are huge dog whistles to the you-know-who crowd whom we can't mention here anymore. And of course any Youtube channels catering to that crowd are going to capitalize as much as they can on it.

It reminds me of something Pat Condell once said: "Nobody believes the media, yet everyone believes what they say." Like you insinuated, even the ethics-and-journalism crowd does this, and I bore witness to this first hand when media outlets like Kotaku and Polygon negatively and libelously reported on my group-mate's strike against the Dove Enigma in Elite Dangerous. Instead of doing research and looking into the claims made by Kotaku and Polygon, the ethics-and-journalism crowd just blindly believed what they reported on.

Anyway, back on topic. I can understand one or two videos about a controversy from someone who follows a particular [whatever], but any more than that and I begin to wonder about motives of the financial variety for their reasons...