I just strongly disagree with the sentiment that the hashtag has somehow jumped the shark or been corrupted or anything of that nature. It's a rallying point, a ramp to get onboard. To say that it's aggressively policed is putting it lightly these days. Contrary to your claims, media coverage is far from univerally shunning it, and they're beginning to present an alternative to the narrative that the Gawker crowd (with which GiantBomb is definitely complicit) is pushing.