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Bullshit. It's always been divisive.
There's literally a Wikipedia article covering the fact that this has been debated going back to the 90s.
The article cites the opinion of an unnamed author of an unnamed "image encyclopedia." Not really what I'd call definitive, which was the point.
In my circles back then, soft G was predominant. I wouldn't cite that as evidence of a One True Pronunciation either.
There has always been debate about it. Hard G has certainly become predominant, but declaring that people that prefer soft G "weren't on the internet back then" is revisionist at best.
Well, with no numbers on that statement it could be as little as 51% of people. Chalk me up in the "online since BBSs" and I've always said soft g.
I'm more concerned with the poll further down the page that has a staggering 2.8% of people who pronounce each letter individually.