Era has a strange complex where they assume even the dumbest of non-good media is going to hopelessly corrupt the minds of others. Look at how they demand Joe Rogan not be discussed or how a book or TV that could be interpreted as supporting bigotry be condemned lest simple minds consume it. There is a constant whine of "I know it's not racist but others might not see it that way."
It's really actually hilarious when they start outlining the case for PewDiePie's mass murderer cult. And how KIDS WATCH THIS STUFF AND THINK ITS COOL.
So look at the kind of "horrible shit" incidents they constantly cite to support this theory:
-in a collection of various meme videos one of them happened to be from an actual legitimate alt-right guy who's probably a full Nazi and this appeared for like three seconds
-so, a user would have to see this particular clip out of a bunch, deliberately note the username and then go visit the account, which is decidedly NOT content like PDP but instead a bunch of rants about immigrants and such total KID FODDER
-similarly, the fact that he FOLLOWED NAZIS like Ben Shapiro on Twitter, despite again no evidence of ever actually "signal boosting" them on Twitter (he filmed a joke video with Ben Shapiro for one of his series but Ben of course is humorless, which was the gag, so is unlikely to draw viewers to him from that for the same reasons as above, especially once they see how long he owned only one shirt) merely that he followed them among hundreds or more accounts
-so, once again, a KID WHO LOVES PEW DIE PIE is going to visit his Twitter, go "wow, who does he follow because I want more PewDiePie" and see "politics writter/blogger" and other nonsense and immediately start mainlining that shit into their veins then firebomb a church
they would handwave this thinking away as NOTHING AT ALL like the violent video game purges or satantic pro-sex rock music or gay teachers on Anthur scares because well, that was all proven to be nonsense, kids and teens never interpreted the material as seriously as the adults, the argument is entirely the same, you're just carving out an exception for the things you like
it doesn't help that they SIGNAL BOOST and love stories that you can just magic this away with whether it be how ContraPoints is converting the alt-right into SJW's sucking dick down at truck stops through way too long of boring ass videos or how Ms.Galaxy went from strenuously advocating genocide (due to gaming YouTube... apparently) into a non-binary anarcho-coomunist raped by THQNordic thanks to reading posts on NeoGAF.com
obviously if a streamer or YouTuber was posting content regularly about how we need a Final Solution to SJW's of color, it's certainly rational to #cancel them, but these are generally channels which they all admit they don't watch (to be safe of course) and which certainly do no fit that lofty status of intellectual dank wadism; ResetERA.com blurs this distinction by constructing elaborate conspiracy theories (HUGGED JON TRON) and secret plans (maybe they're not overt but they're totally to normalize this by not being overt about it!) and contradictory justifications (again, Jim Sterling) of content they don't consume rather than simply say it doesn't interest them, or they don't like it because it's stupid, or they hate how it's popular and they can't understand that because they like things that are truly popular (and progressive) just look at the evidence of the Nintendo Switch's historic record breaking exclusives (which will be brought into the right side of history after the weekend) and the box office of Disney Marvel franchise films (did you know that Endgame has surpassed Avatar? did you know that Brie Larson is a woman who is two steps away from Donald Trump? SLAY QUEEN)
but in real reality nobody gives a shit about a bunch of 30 year old white males having midlife crises of varying sources who mistook the idea of "CULTivating a user base" to mean you start with a small group and start culling the non-believers as the divine word is slowly revealed via Discord and retroactively added to the scripture of the forum which is interpreted freely to the point of contradiction by the officials who enforce it
because once the most tightly-restricted registrated userbase on the internet™ has been fully purified then the most popular independent video game forum as measured by traffic will explode into the mainstream zeitgeist as a pillar of influence and not something that gets mocked on Twitter and niche forums full of beautiful, smart, and talented people plus Nintex
