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To the contrary, there was never a "falling off" moment, they've always been meek liberals, their videos didn't have any meat, any substance to them, they just seemed radical to many because YT was pushing people like
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for the first time, if you go back to some of the videos from the "golden era" your jaw will drop at how... pointless they are, it's just continuous meandering, and I don't think they really even helped in the "deradicalisation" of normies, they just turned some hogs into liberals, yippie how great is that 
I was always trying to point out at the time that her videos lacked any depth, she barely investigated any idea or challenged her own ideas with counter examples. it was just a handful of quotes cited to some important people, as if you could begin to understand the work of those authors from those quotes alone, and you were left with an 3 hour video which doesn't even have 25% of the content you'd be presented in a college level lecture, for which a single topic of study would contain 30 such lectures a semester.
I was always shouted down with "le pipeline" and "that's too hard, you want everything to be unfun and serious all the time. you're gonna tell me to read theory next? I'm actually in these streets, doing direct action and mutual aid, making a real difference I can't tell you about because opsec" and also "it's good for us to having someone making introductory[sic] videos with high production values" which was baffling, She wasn't like Captain Disillusion or Chris Young, since clearly the money wasn't being used to give the content more clarity or scope.
If you're familiar with Yugopnik (yeah ik another YT mf, sorry) his leftist funnel theory has these "tumour growths" that represent people on "the pipeline" whose only goal is to suck up potential baby leftists and retain them as an audiance, thus preventing them from going further downwards, it was referenced and basically confirmed that she was one of those unnamed tumours mentioned in the vid, lol
Under Capitalism, it's a major contradiction for content creators that they have to choose between making content that is useful vs. Stuff that gets eyeballs. But then these people all have Patreons so they shouldn't care about making an "unpopular" if it's what their Pateron supporters want. Seems like the same problem all creative face where having a roof over their heads beats being "authentic" and homeless.