Unfortunately, toxicity is always going to exist no matter the community or industry involved.
People need to understand that reviews are opinions of the writer. Nothing about them molds an opinion that is expected to be shared by everyone reading or watching it.
There are multiple examples all over the internet, including GAF, where some people just can't accept what another person's opinion is. They think that their own is factual, and no one else's matters or has any merit. Which, yeah, you're certainly entitled to your own opinion, but dismissing others while acting like yours is final and factual is unjust.
That being said, a lot of people put a BIZARRE amount of power in a review/rating number and/or score. So much so that I'll never understand. If you love it or enjoy it, you love it or enjoy it. No ones opinion is going to change or affect that. No one can take that away from you. That's it. Want to discuss it? Go right ahead! But there's a difference between a cordial discussion, and someone telling them they're wrong because their opinion doesn't match their own.
I'm over the Gamespot review situation because, yeah, it's her opinion. The issue people apparently have with it is that it sounds almost like she reviewed a game that she didn't care to partake in. A lot of stuff sounds like she didn't really dive into things people cared to know more about it, etc. So some people got salty as a result. Some also got salty about the rating itself. Others started saying that people were angry because the reviewer is a woman. It's all ridiculous. Truthfully I don't know why people continue to give game sites like Gamespot a click if they're potentially worried about this kind of situation. Kotaku and Polygon gave me plenty of reasons to ignore them all together several years ago, lol. Half the time it feels like these sites are duking it out with one another over who can flex their opinions that have nothing to do with the video game their reviewing harder.
The Quartering can be respected for being a "hardworking" YouTuber. That being said he's obviously one of THOSE YouTubers that goes after clickbait-y drama related topics. I mean, his thumbnails should be a give away. I personally think he's kind of a douche bag, but there are people out there that like him, so to each their own. But that style of YouTuber exists, is popular, and is all over the platform.
Hate him? Don't give him attention.
Hate the review/review score/Gamespot? Don't give them attention.
I don't understand why people blow these situations up to what they are, or give them attention at all.
I'd say social media was a mistake, cause in a lot of ways it really was. But I can't help but think Twitter is the absolute worst when it comes to this kind of stuff.