The cycle of pontificating for ad revenue. First you pontificate about awful people who got money, then you get the money, then you get other people (who hope to also get the money) pontificating about how you turned into an awful person.

Neither the subject or the analyst are interested in examining the influence of getting the money. It's not necessarily actively dishonest, but we're all very good at deceiving ourselves when it's to our benefit.

That’s crazy to me, I was watching her pre transition and stopped paying attention around Envy maybe? Didn’t know she had blown up

I said whiff of success. I started watching her before her incels video and she started getting noticed by the algorithm around then. The fact that she became much more popular with liberals after disappearing up her own ass isn't a coincidence, because they already believe her braindead takes unironically.

Hell there's actual Hollywood celebrities and pop stars who have had better stances on the genocide in Gaza. If anything her shit take on that issue cost her fans given the space she operates in.

It's because her super old content, as in the videos posted under her pre-Contra Youtube channel that has her deadname as part of the channel name, had videos of her shitting on Muslims as some edgy nu atheist with channer characteristics. To me, this goes beyond her being a milquetoast lib. She fucking hated Muslims as an edgy teen then and she probably still fucking hates Muslims after all these years later. Or at least dislikes them enough that she doesn't care if a predominately Muslim population gets genocided by non-Muslims. Old Contra would probably have cheered on the IOF for providing the final solution to the Islamic question while present Contra has politically developed enough that she is merely apathetic over the ethnic cleansing of a Muslim population.