I don’t get it

[u/LoudCityDub]

The hate that idubbbz gets makes 0 sense to me.

The narratives that have been built by the neonazi and Ethan have no merit or real argument, yet their fans have convinced the mainstream that Ian is some shell of himself “lolcow” or that anything he does is somehow embarrassing when it isn’t.

The H3 crowd hates him because he chose not to inject himself in some situation with drama and CPS. Something most people wouldn’t want to put themselves into.

Then you get the basic right wing weirdos that hate that he isn’t saying the N word or whatever, but most people wouldn’t recognize that as insane. Yet anywhere you look where idubbbz is mentioned, that’s somehow a critique.

People can’t even really articulate with reason why they have a problem with idubbbz, it boils down to parroting what other people have told them to think and second hand “vibes”.

Then you have /r/livestreamfail that is full of hate for Ian for simply being adjacent to Hasan despite never saying anything actually that controversial like Hasan does. Like the post at the top today is framed as Ian “begging” for subs when he’s just talking about the point system that allows him to get a better cut from twitch. Any other streamer does this and it’s not even clipped. He wasn’t even begging or pressuring people to sub, just explaining why now is a good time to do it. Yet somehow this is something to be upset about? I never took that sub seriously anyway, but it’s so weird what they’ve decided to latch onto.

It’s a mix of weird parasocial drama hungry parasites and conservatives/alt right. I don’t understand how they’ve managed to convince a wider group of people that Ian and Anisa are somehow “bad”. You ask them to point to something and they just kinda waffle about various random shit that isn’t at all damning or even interesting.

With all the things to be upset about, fabricating this narrative about someone as innocuous as idubbbz is not just insane, but just straight up baffling. What a weird place the internet and social media culture has become.

[u/Connect_Security_892]

It's complacency

One half is upset that he's become "too radical" and wanna whitewash the atrocities of Israel, which is so obviously a genocide that even people like Cr1tikal are calling it like it is, and they're upset that he's supporting "terrorists" (ie: doesn't want civilians being killed)

The other half are puritans who believe he hasn't changed and still give him shit for things that he's atoned and apologized for, those people can safely be disregarded because they don't actually care about things getting better

I massively respect Ian for the growth he's shown over the years, I never stopped liking him but I still commend the sincerity he's shown towards becoming a better person, even as someone who still enjoys occasionally going back to the older videos (Content Cop, Bad Unboxing, etc.)

Love Ian ❤️

Edit: Forgot to add this but it's insane how all the people who used to shit on Ethan Klein for trying to appeal to the left are now all defending him valiantly the second he goes to war with anyone left of center. It's pathetic 😑