Hmm... Noticed by the media. To my mind that's a bad thing. I'd rather remain under their radar.
Mind you I was playing AD&D in the 80's when that media attention led to my friend burning all of his AD&D books because his parents went all crazy on him. The only reason my books weren't taken away from me was my parents didn't give a damn if I jumped off a building assured that my Feather Fall spell would save me. We were gaming in secret. Most of our parents thought we were doing something athletic at someone else's home. Oddly it was the Catholic kid's parents were the ones who didn't care about the media assault on our hobby so we played at his house.
I don't think we are in much danger of this now. You'll still have a segment of society that will have issues with some of the imagery or even any depiction of magic. Just corporate names with "Wizards" in it, much less Asmodee, will lead to some groups banning it. But society as a whole is big on fantasy. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones. We won. Most main stream churches (in the USA at least) are not going to be up in arms, beyond calling for parental involvement or suggesting more "family friendly" alternatives to more graphic games.
Even in the 80s it was more pockets of overly excitable, superstitious, hard core folks. I blame the scare spreading to more mainstream folks on the media at the time. The media seems to be almost entirely positive this time around, many of today's journalists probably played when they were younger, or even still play now.
Then again, just need one high-profile suicide to start up the cycle of tragedy-porn and fear mongering, so who knows.
That and most of the images are of the hard core type that costume for gaming sessions... People I find a bit on the weird side.
Hmm, when I think of hard-core gamers, I think of folks that are all about the games. In any event I think we are beyond cosplay being "weird." I doubt most people cosplay for their home games and those who mix cosplay with TTRPGs mainly dress up for streamed and convention games. But, if they want to dress up for their home games, the more power to them. It's a better image than the gamer who needs to be reminded to shower and change clothes at least every couple of days.
