I think a thread is in order to burst that bubble.
The vast majority of content is freelance. It kinda has to be.
Imagine being a plumber, but before you got paid, you had to spend your off hours fixing septic tanks. Insanity, right?
Did you know that somehow, there are people who accuse games journalists of not liking video games?
Everyone else is varied levels of putting in above full time hours and above full time work for, mathematically, sweatshop wages, for the privilege of getting yelled at for scoring an 8 instead of 10
Right now, it's the AAApocalypse. There's plenty of content to be made about stuff coming out.
During the months when it's not? Freelancers STARVE.
But that content must bring in eyes. Lots of them. And CONSTANTLY.
~FIN~