Evilore is the problem. People don't want to post on a site run by a guy accused of sexual misconduct (multiple times over many years when you really think about). He's not been found guilty or some shit, but how did you he handle it? (she's bi) lol. Maybe he'll write a book after this ordeal titled "If I Grabbed That Ass".
As if people weren't aware of his misconduct before. All of this faux-outrage, public suicides and "OMG METOO" bs is not the result of critical mass only just discovering about Tyler's history. That's about as likely as Jason Schreier being completely unaware of the allegations throughout all the years he cosied up to Evilore. Essentially, the progressive hivemind spotted an opportunity to make a land grab and killed the king. The drones followed - at first just the blindly loyal, and then, it became the done thing to do and thousands virtue-signal-suicided their accounts to join the new cool kids gang.
The only problem with this is that the painfully progressive generally eat themselves. When your entire hierarchy is based on who has the least privilege / is the biggest victim, you get to the point where you have to have losers as much as you have winners. The losers, those who are deemed to have more privilege, will either spend their entire Resetera careers walking on eggshells or end up making one against-the-accepted-thought post too many and wind up banned.
...and where will the banned go? Most likely, they'll jump back to suckle on the teets of the newly resurrected, free-email welcoming NeoGAF.
Tyler has nothing to lose by keeping GAF running. It'll grow over time. People will return. Especially if it's not the 1984ish vision of hell it was before it imploded.
