If you think about how terrifying it is that screaming Twitter users can nuke a piece of media out of reality just by being offended enough about it to write articles about it, it's proof that social media has been a plague upon humanity and the majority of the populace probably deserves a mass extinction event
This kind of faux moral outrage campaigning have existed for way longer than social media. I remember the Rapelay controversy from the middle 2000's, and that was enterely driven by traditional media, not by nobodies from internet. And it wasn't just Rapelay at the end, virtually any game that wasn't family-friendly was viciously targeted by the press, politicians or religious figures. It happened with GTA, Doom, Manhunt, Rule of Rose, even with random Newgrounds Flash games. All of them were acussed of promoting anything ranging from massacres to "criminal behaviour" to "sexual deviance" and whatever new boogeyman the press wanted to invent that day.
And before the mass popularisation of video games their preferred scapegoats were TTRPGs for "promoting withcraft", heavy metal for "promoting Satanism" and "deviancy", and far back in the 1950's you had random superheroes comics being targeted by the same "moral authorities" for "promoting" homosexuality, "criminal behaviour" and all of that too. That kind of moral panic campaigns have been a constant around the world for a century or so by now.
The only thing that remains true it's that these campaigns rarely are something organic though, the vast majority of times they are artificially propped up by someone (usually a political, religious or corporate business group) who have an invested interest in damaging the reputation of the targeted piece of entertainment, either to put down a potential business competitor or as a scapegoat to advance a repressive political agenda. It was the case with all the moral panics from the 80's, it was the case with the moral panic around video games from the 2000's, and it is the case with a lot of manufactured controversies from this decade.
