I've been reading a lot of video game and movie news websites recently cause my work is slow as shit, and while they sometimes get good scoops these people are all awful writers. They all write in the snarkiest, most irritating way possible because anger generates clicks. Then eventually some brave hero will harass one of these purposefully irritating nerds and they'll cry about it and try to make us all feel bad for them.
In defense of the writers, most of them are paid shit and given templates to follow created by some editor with an actual salary attempting to capitalize on trends.
I've talked about it a few times on here, but I've done a lot of writing in my past, some for pretty large companies that do this shit. Like I had fucking SFgate try to get me to write a quirky article on "cheuginess" a few months ago kind of thing.
It's just another form of labor, 95% of them think the article is garbage too but that's what got them paid, y'know?