That's totally fine. People should be free to like or dislike anybody. I like some streamers that people here hate, but I'm not here to simp or white knight for anybody.
The major difference between streamers like the FNT people or the Drinker and guys like EVS is that the former are up front about who they are and what they offer while the latter are hypocritical frauds and people who offer false promises of goods and services they take money for but do not deliver as promised. The later are also narcissistic clowns.
With FNT/Drinker what you see is what you get. You either enjoy their streams or you don't. You either agree with some of their opinions or you don't. But there's no fraud or false promises involved. You can superchat or buy merch if you want, but it's not required. The vast majority of what they have to offer is free.
This was a major difference in the past, but it's becoming less of a difference by the day.
You can't really say these guys are just 'offering opinions' anymore when they're getting on their pulpits to declare that
Isom #1 will be the greatest comic ever made and that it will 'destroy Marvel and Star Wars.' These are claims that can be held up to objective reality, and believe it or not some of the FNT viewers being asked to back these works will take such statements at face value and start to question these guys' 'opinions' when their promises don't materialize. Just at look at what happened with Comicsgate. And this was back in 2022.
Why, just last week Drinker and Methrotic were the stars of a 45 minute documentary how Hollywood is over and how they and the Fellowship have become
the culture now
. Surely just an opinion, and definitely something two non-narcissistic clowns would say about themseves. Not even getting into the Gina Carano lolsuit they're championing either, which will one day actually be presented in a court of law.
This isn't the first time these guys have begun to believe their own hype. We all remember when Gary's old streaming buddy Doomcock deluded himself (with the help of 4chan copypasta) into thinking he was the protagonist in
V from Vendetta and that Bob Iger was punching the conference table yelling "Curse you Doomcock!", which ended with the rest of FNT putting him down like Old Yeller lest the fat masked sped take them all down with him. Life has humbled Gary more than most, and this has kept him grounded long after most of his peers have fallen off the deep end, but he looks to be getting high off his own supply.
Agane.
Another problem is (after two decades years of total global cultural dominance) the MCU franchise is starting to decline, which means there's less of a market for the MCU-critical content Nerdrotic has built his little hatewatching empire on for the past 3 years. "Madame Web being woke" just doesn't get the same click as "the Avengers are woke." So his audience is becoming less engaged, being fed with increasingly incredulous snakeoil and, I suspect, some of them are open to alternatives.
Fortunately for these hundreds (possibly thousands) of lost fandom menace paypigs, a lone hero has bounded over the hill at dawn, a human sunbeam if you will, who has what they need:
dozens of indie creators offering an alternative to mainstream culture, long, 6-hour+ daily efaps, hanging out with 'the' Shane Davis, vinyl car wraps for a bisexual furry manlet driving the world's slowest car, Vito, and a fat retard who sells photos of himself having sex with Diddler Dax's freeuse autistic woman-child on the internet. At his side are his most powerful obsequeious toadies, who will no doubt usher in the new age of IBS when they stop cowering from Matt Bahr. Some say this is only a temporary thing that will only last until Nerdrotic swallows his pride, touches grass, and tweaks his show to be more current and less shit, but such doubters have no place for the new world that doubtlessly awaits.
