Don't forget that Tech TV died for us to have G4TV. They took away the smarter tech stuff in favor of gamer-centric slop that eventually turned into the Mt. Dew flavored diarrhea that is modern gaming.
Don't get me wrong, G4 was great, but it was not worth what we lost because in the end Microsoft gorilla'd their way into the gaming scene with the original XBox and introduced it to the fratboy masses.
At the same time, nerd gaming got zerg-rushed with the normie masses entering what used to be geek-centric genres like MMOs when Blizzard turned coloring books and dolls into video games with World of Warcraft.
I find it fitting that Gamergate was the payload activated to result in the world we have today. We literally saw anti-socially focused activities turn into mass pop culture within a decade, ruining society in the process.