By this reasoning no company should have a Twitter presence, a tumblr (well okay actually nobody should have that), Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, or literally anything else on the Internet. It's just not possible to maintain that level of purity, it's just that only certain outlets are singled out for it.
Nobody says this shit about tumblr which has literally been thrown off the App Store for outright, literal child porn that they do nothing about and when they are forced to do something, instead of contacting law enforcement they just destroy the evidence.
But drawings of anime children exist on reddit too. Doesn't hentai use highschool as a common background, most people in highschool are underage, is that CP?
Because Twitter, tumblr, Reddit, etc. have a fundamentally different structure than an imageboard. Twitter/insta/yt/fb/other social media have a structure where every account itself is seen as an independent page, and they're only held accountable for what they promote on their page – they'd only get in trouble by liking/reposting content so it appears alongside theirs. Each subreddit is independent too, and they'd only be held accountable for the content that appears alongside their AMA in the subreddit of their choosing. Posting their AMA alongside the typical fare in r/incest or r/DeadEyes would get them in similar hotwater, because their AMA thread would be appearing alongside threads featuring deviant sexual shit. So the difference is, you wouldn't have to wade through that stuff to get to official company posts on another site.
Not to mention, because they held it at 8ch that has a spam problem and lax moderation, they had a lot of deviant stuff appearing
IN their AMA, not just alongside it. Plus they responded positively to some controversial things, like references to lolis for one (showing men grabbing sexualised little girls, according to a podcast I heard). That wouldn't happen if it was Reddit or if it was social media where their own team controlled and regulated the posts. Hell, even 4ch would've been a better/less controversial choice than 8ch – wasn't 8ch founded because a lot of their stuff wasn't tolerated anymore on 4ch so they branched off?
Or maybe they didn't. Maybe it was a trial balloon of some sort. Waltz on into the shittiest of the well known chans and then "apologize" when the inevitable RRREEEEEsetera-ing happened and see what happens. So far, nothing has except REEE.
That's a pretty irresponsible thing to do when your stock is publicly traded and could get you in trouble with shareholders. I mean, maybe their marketing dude was thinking along those lines, but like hell the rest of the company is. Their parent company's stock has dropped 2.5% since the AMA was announced though I can't say it's because of it. But bad business decisions can be brought up as questions, and parent companies can bring down heat on their subsidiaries. The parent company is going to be changing its name to distance itself from THQ Nordic and prevent "confusion", so that should help. It's not a massive problem for the company but it was an avoidable one.
Resetera is definitely not their customer base considering half the users are boycotting everything. But 8ch is pretty niche. There's no market it gamer culture wars since most people don't know or care if you stick it to the sjws or show up them nazi gamergaters. Many people browse Reddit from work. That's their mainstream base right there and they turned up their nose at it to court controversy for no apparent gain. That's pretty stupid.
Look, I know it's pretty unpopular to say. No-one likes to even obliquely agree with resetera. But hey, even though Stalin murdered millions of people, drove his daughter to suicide, and left his son to die in a Nazi concentration camp, you've gotta hand it to him: he sure was right about the church being a con and he did have a very manly moustache.
