I'll agree that traditional media is dumb, old-fashioned, and maybe just plain old. I think you can put the blame on generational differences for why your parents and people like Jimmy Kimmel don't understand gamers. You grew up with games, they didn't. Heck you were an early adopter so you probably had a worse time. Gaming was being unfairly put down in the 70s and 80s so I get why you would be defensive, but nowadays that kind of mentality doesn't work anymore.

Gamer mobs that attack personalities who "offend" them are annoying. It's toxic, dangerous, and doesn't help their cause at all. I dislike the idea that gaming is the media's whipping boy because it's feeding these weird, tantrum-y, dare I say "manchildish" reactions every time a person so much as tweets that watching Let's Plays are dumb. Sure I get it, there's all these bad misconceptions about gamers being violent and neckbeards and that should definitely go away, but maybe people should just give them time to disappear.

Gaming is an increasingly mainstream pastime. You can rest assured, the kids of 2015 growing up with Steam and iPads and 3DS XLs are not going to experience the same adversity you did.