If you're familiar with what happened to the Hugo Awards or anything like that, you have a general idea of what's going on already, but if you don't, I'll boil this down for you all. Over the last decade and a half or so, rabid progressives - the kind that think being political spergs is more important than anything else - have infested various media in the hopes of enriching themselves.
Many of them come from a belief system where someone who believes in the cause but is completely untalented is more valuable than someone who has years of experience and a proven track record that speaks for itself, but is an unbeliever, or worse, a heretic, who believes the complete opposite. Since most of these ideologues have no talent whatsoever and are averse to hard work, they tend to create works that pander like crazy and just don't do well at all in an open market where anyone can buy what they want. As a result, as people with this mindset pile into a new territory, they form communities of the like-minded where their viewpoints are enforced, or, more commonly, take over existing communities with the goal of giving themselves a presence within the industry. They drive off industry veterans, often through false-flag campaigns or using claims of impropriety, and immediately agitate in favor of their own.
All of that brings us to the IGF and Indiecade, which while originally legitimate organizations devoted to sponsoring indie game development, effectively turned into a money laundering scheme for the Progtard Indie Gaming Clique. There's countless examples that were brought forth during GG, but on top of many of the usual suspects having hilarious spidernests of conflicts-of-interest with this group (Zoe Quinn, for instance, was rather infamously fucking IGF chair Brandon Boyer, who was both reviewing her game, was her boss, and was married), but essentially choosing the games that were going to win beforeheand (something that happened with Fez) and using the award ceremony to act as a promotion for the game in question, in violation of not only the rules, but California state law (not that any of those involved give a shit).
No one in the press gave the fact that the largest indie game award shows were 100% rigged and were effectively financially backing the games that won any coverage whatsoever, of course, because there is no form of journalism more fucking worthless than that associated with gaming.
