Something Meyer seems not to get from the FNT fellas is that for them this is an actual job; they consistently amass views of hundreds of thousands and even millions of views per video. This plus the superchats they get during livestreams can amount to more than decent money if they can keep it up for two or three weekly videos while the going gets good. Ask EVS who could (can?) afford to neglect his comic books as long as his views and chats piled up. The difference of course being that the FNT crowd AFAIK hasn't kept a carrot dangling above their followers for years promising some nebulous product in exchange for their money and patience.
But Zack has a point; if they want to maximize their profits, the Party Clowns must go after cringe-worthier subjects like NoWhite and the Seven Dwarves every now and then, because unlike Meyer, they can adapt and be flexible. On the other hand they've never said they were above the culture war that Zack always claims he's too ethereal to debase himself with. This is disingenuous though because Zack did often comment about faggotry such as Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl comics which, granted, weren't specifically aimed at little girls and maladjusted homos, but neither is Disney's Snow White.
Come on though, the viewers eat up this sort of crap and the FNT people are good at presenting it in a passably entertaining manner.
Another difference is of course be that Meyer made his name by critiquing comic books which are so niche that even when he was one of the most popular comic book commenters he very rarely made it past 20K views per video. Perhaps he could afford to
think he was being principled because he never had a chance to make serious money off his vids given their topic and format but also because the spectacular profits from his first Jawbreakers made him think that video income was expendable.
Having slowly but surely wrecked his reputation over the past 4-5 years, it's possible that he's been trying to pivot to something much more mainstream like video freaking games