And then there's this:

In this video, Mark Dice claims there's a media group that "blesses" certain projects and ignores others. By definition, Hive would be in the ignored category.

Now, you can claim that Mark Dice is off his rocker. I'm fine with that characterization. I see him as an entertainment youtuber that can catch me up on certain topics.

Do we throw out everything Mark Dice says and therefore there's no shadowy group behind all of the popular social media sites? That's fine.

There's a middle-ground stance. There's no literal shadowy group. But there's a market tendency that looks exactly like it.