I am so confused how you can write out these posts and not, in all seriousness, have your "Hans are we the baddies?" moment.
I mean I guess it's at least being said out in the open finally, but it's still just a tiny bit shocking to no longer have it be hid behind half-truths that dance around it. All of the complaints about "cancel culture" and "political correctness" were never anything more than projection for your own wants to establish a true cancel culture based on your own version of being "politically correct."
See, this is the thing with those neologisms.
You are using the term literally in this post, but you are ignoring the fact that it isn't being used literally elsewhere. It's a thing of convenience you do. A rhetorical trick.
Not everything being cancelled is "cancel culture". What you're looking for there is the term "meritocracy". We don't wanna cancel journalism, we just wanna fire the bad journalist and hire a better one. We want a certain amount of talent to be present so that they can befit the terms they use to describe themselves.
Same deal with political correctness. It isn't POLITICALLY correct to expect a gaming journalism to be competent at games, (I've done better at games I was playing moments before I fell asleep with my controller in my hands and had people taking pictures of me), no, that's just REGULAR correctness. Political correctness is what you're doing, "ignore the fact that this person is shit, you must treat them like they're better than you, because they're the journalist and you're the neckbeard!". That's literal political correctness, the opposite of what we seek (actual correctness).
Also, this cuphead guy recently uploaded (and then took down) a video of himself playing doom and he could not get past a basic area that required you get over a chain. He was stuck jumping around platforms and falling in lava for over 10 minutes. Was he streaming from a con that time too?
I mean, look at this lol.
I can't speak for others, but I kind of wonder if there's a kind of weird class warfare thing going on. Some journalist, and some youtubers, seem to see each other as a threat. Old vs new media. I know that's obviously not true for everyone, and there can be an overlap between the two fields, but sometimes one definitely seem to have a disdain for the other.
Journalists tend to badmouth youtubers for having less expertise, mostly because they're eating their lunch rather than due to actual real reasons. This invites analysis of their comparative expertise, which often doesn't go well for them.
But yeah I'm sure some youtubers are cynical about it. Like, I don't need you to make 50 videos about that fallout online game, I checked out on that game the moment it was announced it was gonna be online cause I have a functioning memory and can remember their elder scrolls online game lol.