User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Fandom and Curse Media are joining forces/@comment-970089-20181213175105

For those of you wondering why, let me make it simple for you.

Wikia Inc doesn’t make money.

I’ll say it again.

Wikia inc doesn’t make money.

And no amounts of rebranding to Fandom is ever going to fix that.

Gamepedia is backed by Curse, who through Twitch are owned by Amazon. They have money.

It seems clear the current sugar Daddy - TPG capital - cut off the money supply (hence those reports about all those layoffs). Amazon has money, hence this decision.