There are plenty of terrible subreddits that are/were allowed to exist for the longest times. CoonTown, FatPeopleHate, WatchPeopleDie, TheDonald, ChapoTrapHouse. And those aren't small subs with maybe a few hundred people, they were/are pretty popular.
8chan is a criminal website that has been delisted by Google. It:
- Encourages child abuse.
- Disseminates child pornography.
- Organizes doxxing and harassment campaigns.
- Organizes swatting, which can and has been lethal.
- Organizes and breeds hate campaigns, neo-nazi rhetoric.
- Facilitated, livestreamed, and cheered on the recent white nationalist terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 49 people.
It is incomparable to even the vilest subreddit, and you're arguing from either astonishing and willful ignorance or complete bad faith (probably the latter).
Further, the person who organized the AMA on behalf of THQ Nordic, Philip Brock, is their Director of PR & Marketing, not some low level PR intern. All it takes is the most cursory of google searches to ascertain all of the above information, and we know for a fact that he knew of the site's reputation (and then lied about it in his insincere apology), because (1) he said "Mark" would "take care of the nasty stuff," and (2) was liking tweets defending their 8ch AMA before and after the apology.
Further, it wasn't just Brock, a relatively high-ranking individual, who engaged in the AMA, but Reinhard Pollice, a significant stock owner in THQ Nordic AB (the parent company of THQ Nordic GmbH) and the Director of Business & Product Development. He was palling around with people spouting homophobic slurs, saying such slurs looked like they could be in their next game.
Educate yourself before inflicting your ignorance on other people.