One thing I find interesting about RE is that giving those lunatics exactly what they asked for has sort of diminished them and their influence in general. Like, they let the loonies fully take over the asylum and then chase everything else away. All along they thought neogaf was popular because of like “the BCT”, bishoptl, Emily Rogers, bronsonlee, shinobi0602, or any other rotating cast of fuckboys and girls that posted so much that they began to think that THEY were the reason that the industry came through to engage with neogaf. But in actuality? They were the dumb shit that everyone else put up with to engage with the other normal people they didn’t make a name for themselves.
Once the forum fell apart, every one of those people is less well known as an “internet forum celebrity”. The only person I can think of that has really turned the GAF posting into something like a career is Wario64 and shinobi.
By turning resetera into such a shit show, it’s not really a place that developers engage with fans, or leaks occur, because the loonies fucked all that up and turned it into a place where they can only talk to each other.