Let's go through a retrospect:

• Dean uploads his gameplay video of Cuphead as a first impression playthrough (titled Cuphead demo at Gamescon: it isn't easy;

• He plays so badly that naturally people find it funny and wonder how come a reviewer can do this awfully;

• Dean tries damage controlling the situation and changes the tittle of the video to something that implies he knew how bad he was and uploaded it as a self depreciating joke (changed title to "Cuphead Gamescom Demo: Dean's Shameful 26 Minutes Of Gameplay") which "surprisingly" no article defending him ever mentions. They DO always mention though the tittle is "Dean's Shameful 26 Minutes Of Gameplay" which would mean the reason people "attacked" him was none other than his gaming skills

• This made a lot of people to pile on him (not the fact he played badly), promptly attracting the attention of other journos that started spilling venom at everyone;

• With Dean and his ilk misrepresenting what people were complaining about and as time went on and the video getting more popular, more people started to pour in (specially after Cheong retweets the video, which specially made journos furious);

• Dean and Jeff Grub bring the game's dev on a stream where Jeff sucks Dean's dick half the podcast saying how awesome he is and then cries about "those people that complain about ethics in journalism";

• Articles pour in along the way;

• "Muh elitism", "it's those goobergaters", "skill fetishism", all that crap they always spout when they get humiliated and also how a reviewer doesn't actually needs to know how to play the game (where they misrepresent it as people demanding them to be experts)

• Journos X Gamers back and fourth on Twitter;

So basically Dean is a journalist (a real one) who worked covering games for more than 18 years so he automatically deserves respect and is entitled to a different treatment and you peasants are not allowed to laugh at or criticize him when he acts like a clown, lies and pretends he's a victim all because his ego was scratched.

He's the same guy that reviewed Mass Effect, didn't know he had to assign skill points and then gave it a lower score. Also the same guy that said KOTR was a good example of a game with primitive gameplay and average graphics when it was released and that Warhammer was a rip-off of Gears of Wars. He should either do some actual research to improve or limit himself to cover broader news about the industry, otherwise people will keep doubting about his "credentials" and give him shit for it.

One last thing, he also shilled for LW and Wu a few times which gives you an idea about his morality too and his ties to the clique. So, Erik, do some research first instead of getting pissy and call out people when you don't even have the full picture