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Oh yeah sorry I didn't think that you were doing that at all. All I thought you were doing was accidentally overstating Shad's relevance by comparing him to Tate. Like, Tate is broadly popular among reactionaries and conservatives. Shad just appeals to quite a niche audience who either don't know about or who agrees with his politics, and who are into the history thing.
But then also, his audience is limited by the fact that even if you completely ignore his political beliefs, his actual content is bad. It limits his appeal a lot because even conservative HEMA people (and unfortunately there definitely are some very racist conservatives who like HEMA for the reason your describe) don't like his uneducated bad takes about fighting. He does well only with people who don't know better.