The counter to that is those "fence-sitters" are likely unaware this ever happened, don't really care about the reputation of 8chan and/or understand that journos hate 8chan because of GamerGate, not because of schrodinger's CP.
Everyone who isn't mentally challenged hates 8chan, it's a palace for those too autistic to use even 4chan, a place that features /pol/. It literally features doxxing boards, pedo boards and all kind of shit. Now, I know you guys at lolcow love to accuse everyone of being a pedo nowadays (Not to mention sharing many users with 8chan), but for most people it's kind of a fucked up place.
If THQ had did an AMA on Twitter or anywhere else that REEEE doesn't agree with they would've been equally outraged.
No, not really. Stop playing this "Both sides" mentality. Even with your "I'm so better than them" complex this site has, you should understand no one gets outraged by the countless AMA on sites like Twitter or Reddit.
They made an AMA on a site that regularly features pedo content, of course people are going to be shocked. What's the next? Are you going to defend stormfront too because Era hates it?