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Part of that is definitely gatekeeping.
But a lot of it speaks to... people are REALLY stupid these days. You notice it a lot when buildcrafting comes up. If it is more complicated than "raise strength to the soft cap" then people start making up massive excuses on how it is too complicated to explain and you are a fool for asking and MAYBE to go watch their favorite youtuber and so forth. When I feel particularly trollish I make a "like bags of sand" joke but the reality is that they just do not have the ability to actually learn what they are talking about. They can barely even regurgitate what an influencer told them.
And that has more or less broken fighting game discourse online. Because it is no longer "oh yeah, so and so has a super easy 20 hit combo" and inherently has to be "your crouching light jab is a +4 but your crouching light kick is -2" because EVERYONE is an expert in frame counting and so forth.
Souls gamers more or less broke with Elden Ring. The base game is probably the most accessible any Souls game has ever been and most people learned fast they can just beat Malenia by doing an arcane bleed build or getting a big fricking hammer to stunlock her, but they felt like they were super cool for it (which is the point of a Souls game). Then the DLC came out. And people felt the need to shit on the games media folk saying "So... this shit is kinda hard?" before rapidly getting their poopy pushed in by silver knight equivalents.
And it very much broke people. The discourse went from "Git gud. But in all seriousness, Capra is a boss that is designed to make sure you know when to block and when to dodge" into "Git gud you fucking loser. I beat it with no problems". And we are seeing similar discourse with Silksong as a lot of us talk about how some of the runbacks are REAL bad and get responded to with "That is just what Hollow Knight is"... even though there was like one bad runback in the entirety of that game (Mantis Lord... and Radiance is just a different kind of fuckery).