Yes I'll concede I was generalizing, my comment is directed at the "popular internet" if that makes sense. I have spent a huge portion of my life active in gaming and gaming communities though, so I've seen the full spectrum of possibilities. I'm still active in a few communities with more mature discourse.

To stand by my statement, I've never seen a sewing subreddit send death threats and hate mail to employees just trying to keep a job, or stalk a CEOs wife out of the public eye, just because a video game has some bugs. It's not just one or two edge cases either, it's a bandwagon of hatred on the popular internet. You're right that it's platforms like Twitter, Reddit, Imgur et al, that enable it, but I don't think that diminishes the issue. There's enough of the "noisy minority" to be harmful.