Always the cycle, a niche group of people support a small startup or subculture and make it successful enough that it starts to go mainstream, then the people in charge of it betray the niche group in hopes of being accepted by the mainstream's gatekeepers, and it all falls apart.

Every single time from GamerGate to today.

It's like nobody's parents read them Aesop's fables as children anymore. It's all just the story of the goose that laid the golden egg again and again.