Both around two months ago.
Yes, I believe so. Even earlier than that, before Q even posted on 4chan, there were organized efforts to defame and discredit the owner, Jim, as "just another Hiroyuki" (you'd need to search a bit if you don't know who that is) who sells user data. This was back when Gamergate was in full swing.
You need to remember back then, it was "Cabal-backed country vs. Cabal-backed country". The whole cold war was engineered by the Cabal. They knew exactly where each hand was and were itching for a fight. But then, JFK happened and the Cabal decided to deescalate and wait (see Yeltzin, Solidarność in Poland).
The gist of it >>480803 .
Tl;dr a video game journo from Kotaku was discovered to prop up a slut he's been sleeping with, who made a website masquerading as a video game. This started off a completely retarded spiral for video game journalists who instead of condemning said journo and sticking to ethics, circled the wagons. What followed was at least two years of retardation from the journos, a smear campaign EXACTLY like the one Trump had during the election and a whole bunch of screaming at a monitor. It wasn't pretty, but it got the job done - FCC was notified of abuse, several publications had their ethics standards created/revised.
Gamergate was like a prototype for what is happening here tbh. Julian Assange famously tweeted at the GG crowd saying that "the game journalists are only an extension to what the MSM does". In my belief, Gamergate prepared a lot of us for what is happening now.