Not quite, but anyone can be forgiven for not remembering the situation at the time.
There was a hell of a lot of Autism flying around and it was hard enough to keep one's head down long enough.
Game Journalism in particular had been fucking worthless for a while by the time GG happened - an engaged alternative press was now the new normal, and general consensus was that conventional Games Journalism had been dead since print Media started to die. Scandal after scandal had rendered the Games press about as well-liked as an impacted bowel, and more outlets devoted to "Games" were sperging about intersectional Social Justice than about the games themselves by the time GG occurred.
Fox actually began its reputation recovery specifically because of Milo's actions in exposing the Game Journo Pros list. In many ways, the GJP leak was like a Games Journalism version of
JournoList, a group of left-wing news commentators and activists headed up by Ezra Klein, that were conspiring with one another back in 2010. Many people who looked into GJP found out about JournoList, and suddenly a lot more about the ongoing scandal that would become GG made a hell of a lot more sense and became that much more chilling. There was provably an ongoing campaign to support Quinn, mislead the public, and actively shut down anyone who dared criticize her. The leaks also established that several in the GJP logs were financially supporting Quinn.
The bulk of GG was provably left-leaning, if not outright liberal, with a smattering of centrists and right-wingers. For these people, The revelation of GJP (and subsequent similarities to JournoList) made them realize that there was active, organized, and ongoing attempts to mislead them, bury the truth, and outright delegitimize anyone who dared criticize someone whose biggest accomplishment so far was creating a fucking game in
Twine, and that the Left was openly complicit with the cover-up. It led to them asking the big questions, and looking into Media they'd been told was too biased to be worth listening to.
A group assholes, through blatant cronyism, effectively took over the mainstream comic industry and ran it into the ground. They wrote terrible fucking comics with writing that made the worst gold and silver age concepts look fucking subdued in contrast, and yet despite failing over and over and selling like liquid ass cancer, none of them faced any meaningful ramifications for this.
Eventually it came out, as it tends to do, that the people responsible for this shit were openly in collusion with one another and were conspiring to gatekeep the industry, not because they were even remotely successful at comics, but because they didn't want the fans taking an industry back from the hivemind. Eventually comics fans responded by crowdfunding their own comics, many of which were successful, and which in turn
led Mark Waid to committ tortious interference in an attempt to stop one of their critics from producing a book.
TL;DR: Same culture war shit that caused GG, only the infection got way deeper in the case of Comic Books. There is a reason so many Anti-CGers were mainstay Anti-GGers. It's the same fucking idiocy none of us can get away from and which will not relent until the ideology behind it wears itself dry.
