Which, in itself, is bad for business. You can't please 100% of the people 100% of the time, especially when one side has a giant track record of co-opting something into their own brand of horseshit that winds up causing controversy anyways.
I think some people latch onto some of the lyrics from early Red Vox stuff, too. "Wrong Side of History" can be easily interpreted as ironically mocking Leftist Cancel Culture (but you can easily say it uses that language because he's Left-leaning), and there's that line in "Atom Bomb" that goes "You're either on one end or your not a friend / There's no middle road."
There was a Vincent Palmieri in Staten Island who was registered Republican, and it might have been associated with his birthday, though I don't remember for sure. But it's a family name, so it's possible his info got mixed with his (grand)father's registration. Or maybe it's to vote against his disfavored nominees in GOP Primaries (I've known Republicans who at least considered registering Democrat to vote again Hillary Clinton in the Dem Primaries, for example).
It wasn't just /v/, everything became politicized. You weren't allowed to have an opinion on anything without being labelled and put into a side.
it all began with gamergate
This is the impression I get with what he's said about politics over the years. He's also implied a few times to be one of the unlucky ones whose family loves bringing it up during family gatherings/holidays. Dude just wants to grill.
It's probably because they don't act like your typical ashamed ex funny person. They certainly pull their punches but their senses of humor would appear to be at odds with that mindset.
He has in his older streams, but these days he tends to choose his words carefully. I think it was recently when Mewgenics blew up and trannies were seething about le chuddie meows, he said something like, "not all games appeal to everyone", which I remember him saying before in the Warioland Shake It streams about Other M's design choices. However, he was pretty adamant that things don't need to be designed a certain way just to appeal to casuals, so I'd assume his stance back then is the same as it is today.
There was a small channel (I forgot the name) that uploaded archives of Vinesauce streams like that. I remember seeing Joel comment on a couple videos, requesting to have them removed. Here's an old clip
Pizzapasta said nigger himself from time to time in the chatango days. Vinesauce was always /v/-coded from it's inception. But now we got v-tuber shit, terminal 9 trannyism (because Jerma went all-in on the grift, infecting VS in the process) and an american-italian man who wants to be Leon S. Kennedy.
Sounds like he's still /v/-coded then.
He's modern /v/ coded. The /v/ of 2011 and the /v/ of today are two very different places.
I think you got Vinny confused with someone else.
I'm pretty sure there was a period some year/s ago where some random bigender tumblr blob tried to get him cancelled and it was big enough that he skipped out on streaming for a week or two, seeming unnerved once he finally did start streaming again.
The accusation was of him pumping and dumping fans. Which it seems he most likely was doing, but nobody really cares. The Internet has no more sympathy for clout-chasing whores trying to get some e-daddy dick.
