When I watch certain of his Youtube clips, etc… some things bug me off. What do you think of it?
Whatever political stance he may hold, or whether he is conscious about it, he is an entrypoint.
His content is uncritical dogpile reactions and no-fact-checks perpetuating drama. Combined with zero effort community weeding.
While theoretically neutral, such hate cesspools are the culture that fuels the alt-right.
His audience definitely leans that way. I don’t get the impression that he has any agenda or conviction, but he consistently reacts to content that enables the alt-right. He’s been quite candid about getting into the react meta just for the money. Even so, he does seem to have unwittingly become an alt-right entry point.
Haven’t watched it, looks like room-temperature IQ reaction content. Which can be really popular, I guess.
Honestly don’t think he thinks much about politics
He strikes me more like a nihilist or at least realist. He does react to political videos like the Trump interview where he complained about Harris “suddenly being black”. But Asmon mostly makes fun of all the idiocy. But he also makes fun of idiocy on the left and that seems to get gobbled up by his commentors.
But all in all he doesn’t seem to care about stuff, including himself. He just states how things are without much evaluation beyond objectively bad things.
Like, he’ll state that he has an unhealthy lifestyle. He’ll state that people make fun of him. He’ll state there are transsexual people. He’ll state people get upset about transsexuals. Could be construed as right-wing, but there is no valuation in those statements because they’re objectively true.
He’ll also say that there is violence against transsexuals and that that is fucked up. Could be construed as left-wing but I would say that’s as objectively morally bad as one would be able to call anything so.
His followers and detractors seem to ignore everything left leaning he says and instead just focus on everything even slightly right leaning. Especially taking any statement out of context. Like here: https://youtu.be/xBzc3CJOj9I
I don’t like the guy but I think he is entertaining. I just have to stay clear of his comment section.
He strikes me as more a rube that occasionally picks up alt-right talking points than a dedicated follower. At least on one occasion he called out Moon, a shitty right wing video essayist, for lying, but he went really hard on anti-Sweet Baby Inc. content.
So I guess he could unintentionally? But intention doesn’t really matter here. His fanbase probably leans right too.
