Its very simple, it used to be a show ran by a handful of autists in a couch, speedrunning games live in someone's living room for charity, and then the troons and executives came in to suck all the fun out of it and make it as corporate friendly as they could, really sad many such cases
Wasn't there a whole fiasco about someone not having a place to dilate during the last marathon before COVID, where they took to twitter with anger to demand a "dialation room" for every AGDQ after or something
That's the fun part the "close friends" didn't even bother doing a wellness check or provide an obituary, They jumped the next second to write that pdf and whip out a hate mob on twitter first thing
I remember when the media was reporting on 4chan and they looked like nothing but idiots who couldn't figure out what the site was about but decided to report on it anyway as if what they said was factual because they needed to fearmonger, this is exactly what's happening right now