Tbf, there were actual incidents where game news journalists gave preferential treatment to indie game devs they knew personally/went out drinking with/had dated. There was confirmation of that from leaked game journo email groups/chains. There was also concerns about preferential reviews being given to games that were running ads on a site. There was a small kernel about actual journalistic integrity concerns and what responsible disclosure means for games journalism.
Unfortunately that got swallowed up by a lot of bullshit:
absolute waves and waves of women hate. Jesus christ that’s a lot of misogyny.
elitism about what qualified as a “real game” (I don’t enjoy “walking simulators” but that doesn’t mean they aren’t video games)
people unable to understand that just like movie critics are judging different criteria to movie consumers, game critics can judge based on different criteria to gamers
weird group stalking behavior towards specific female game devs
attacking creators themselves rather than whatever elements of their games people found lacking