I've heard the "no context" argument, but I think there's plenty of context to a lot of what I've seen. The most I could argue against a lot of the translated screenshots and video clips is that it's of course translated by Taiwanese who would bias what's being said. There's more out there that Artia was a total CCP shill and a cunt then there is evidence to the contrary. Along with HoloCN's behavior and action, or lack there of during this, is damning enough. Especially Artia and Civia who were the first and main 2, with Rosalyn being the 3rd to push to the Bilibili crowd that they had a deal to take that month's donation money and their avatars. Hell, that shit no matter how you look at it, was a guilt trip that Cover didn't fall for.
tl;dr I think a lot of it is valid, if biased against Chinese when it comes to translating minute details. No one at HoloCN except Yogiri did anything to come off as even remotely endearing and Artia and Civia made a contest out of who could make things worse for themselves, which Artia won. So I have no reason to give them any kind of benefit, when Taiwanese are busy trying to break the news they're all terrible bugmen. If anything, this shit's even funnier as it's China vs. Taiwan over who can steer the EOPs.
As for thread culture, uh, meta talk's stupid and I tend to ignore it. Ultimately a lot of people here enjoy the vtubers they watch and that's fine. Like Hololive for example doesn't even produce drama, more so drama finds them by way of others. the most drama is shit that happens in Niji we will never hear about or EN Vtubers.