If you want to see where this goes check where mobile gaming journalism is currently. After Touch Arcade went tits up there’s basically nothing that isn’t 90% sponsored content or a SEO farm.

I never paid much attention to "game journalism" because every time I did I saw "sponsored content and SEO farm". So I really doubt we ever have a journalism, not just advertisement selling.

When it was still possible to support yourself from journalism you could see concessions being made and certain news being definitely sponsored but it was never as bad as it is now. If you subscribe over RSS you can see how much crap is being created - every new game release means my feeds are flooded with dozens of „Best places to farm underpants in Zenless Zone Zero” or „How to beat minor boss in episode 27”. Google broke the internet.

We had walkthroughs for that. But now everything must be a 20 minute video. So not Google overall but concretely YouTube is to blame.

YouTube is Google though

It was fun in the 80s when we had no internet, video games were a niche, and crazy people could talk about all the new games, but that era is no more.

If that's what the vacuum allows for then that's why I am kind of for a collapse. If the industry is no longer profitable, it will go back to passion projects and from there hopefully we can recapture what was where hobbiests who were also good writers could do decent 'game journilsm'. Remember the days when a critic could trash a bad game without fear of never getting a review copy? Mostly because the just bought it and played it on release.