https://www.neogaf.com/threads/giveaway-hogwarts-legacy-meme-contest-some-gold-too.1649889/page-5
Are REEEsetEra really considered a "major gaming forum" nowadays, or are these news sites just trying to get some attention with those headers?
It is a really big forum , probably the biggest behind neogaf

let's look into this
neogaf:

era:

now let's look at ignboards.com:

uh...
giantbomb doesn't offer forum statistics, but it has nearly as many threads as era:

rllmukforum.com, an alternate universe neogaf that no one has ever heard of:

alright, it's on the smaller side, but respectable
let's stretch the definition of gaming and include tabletop RPG forums
enworld.org:

1.5x the users of neogaf (with a fraction of the messages, because grognards type up long screeds instead of just posting "lol")
giantitp.com:

again more users than neogaf
rpg.net:

a strong effort
honorable mention, smaller but trucking along: rpgcodex with 8M messages and 24k users
looking further abroad from gaming, infamous forum bodybuilding.com

is that member count correct what the fuck
newgrounds:

more threads than gaf
somethingawful:


there is also certain other forum which has nearly double the users of resetera and is catching up to gaf
finally, the incalculable heavy hitters:
reddit is not a traditional forum, but I'd say close enough, random headline topics with replies sorted under them from random users on any subject imaginable in its "subforums"
As of December 2022, Reddit ranks as the 20th-most-visited website in the world and 6th most-visited website in the U.S.
Reddit had 430 million monthly active users in 2020.
steam has traditional forums for every game on the service which is actually massive, and very easy to find specific help for any game at a moment's notice
Steam has 120 million monthly active users.
gamefaqs forums still exist and continue to fulfill a similar purpose, it has no central forum statistics but its politics board has 6.8 million posts alone, PS4 board has 8.5 million posts, Nintendo Switch 4.5 million...these are individual on-topic boards, not even beginning to touch the boards for every single game
gamefaqs had about 620k user accounts as of 10 years ago
so I'd say it's just a matter of not being fucking aware of the broader web landscape