Enthusiasts are _intense_, and the VR community is still all enthusiasts. At least partially because of the price, but probably also because of the severe lack of high-budget games.

So yeah, the Reddit echo-chamber keeps the hate going long after it would normally die in that kind of community.

Gizmodo had a regular feature called Palmer Watch stalking him, which ran for 117 days despite the fact that never never made any kind of public statement or appeared anywhere for that time.

He almost certainly shed a lot of his supporters with his actions.

Even before all the politics stuff he was not the best guy to have as the face of the company. His interactions with the community were sometimes pretty bad.

I wonder if he just wasn't happy with his role in the company.

> Do people really have the energy to keep the outrage going this long?

If you don't know the answer to that by now...