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My pop psychology take on it is that his fanbase does not want to see aspirational media. They don't want to see anything from Drive to Dragon Ball Z and say "that, I want to be like that."
They're all largely blackpilled. Rejected by society and they reject society back. And want to see themselves on the stream. Someone just as given up on life, bitter and resentful and yet even with all that, somehow still living the "dream" of streaming for a living. They take comfort that he grosses out normies and is inexplicable to people outside his fanbase; the negative polarization problem at its peak. He makes the people they hate uncomfortable and confused, so he must be doing something right.
they want the aesthetics of failure but not the reality of it
Interesting.
There's a hentai genre called "ugly bastard" that I would also describe almost exactly like this except for sex acts obviously rather than success. Most of it is for imagining themselves doing SA. It's the same brainrot. They want to see themselves in power scenarios and they take a certain amount of pride in the self image of being the "ugly bastard", usually an overweight extremely poor hygiene neet with a neckbeard.
I'm yellow carding you for bringing ugly bastard mentions into my niche leftist feed.
It seemed pretty relevant, it's definitely the same thing.
No see, I'm cursing you cuz you speak the truth. It is simply a truth that my brain has tried to acknowledge exists then promptly forget.
Also, I'm willing to bet ugly bastards have a broader appeal than the rat.
Learning about that genre was one of those moments where I was reminded that most porn is, in fact, geared toward cishet men.
I could have spent my life not knowing this existed you piece of
This is a great way to put it. There's a deep sort of rot in his fanbase and you break it down pretty well.
Yeah, this is it. People want to think it's all NEETs watching him, but it's not. I know mosty-normie dipshits who reference him.