Does anyone still read web publications that hail back to the golden era of Vice? I feel that they were in their heyday in the late 2000s and since have suffered a gradual, painful decline into irrelevance.
I think at a certain point many of them just changed to primarily or exclusively video and streaming content. It's easier to monetize, and it's where most of the attention of gamers is focused. A lot of it is cheap and terrible, but some of it is really good.