He’s a mildly-popular Twitch streamer who’s more open about his politics than most and he tends to be leftist. That’s pretty much it. People can (and have) get into arguments over him and his views but you can say that about anything online these days. I think the reporter was just surprised that a supposedly popular leftist was unknown by another supposedly leftist political candidate, as if they previously thought we all shared the same hive mind or something
He’s also been more prominent in mainstream politics in recent months, including doing interviews with journalists, using his platform to endorse candidates, (potentially) interviewing candidates on his stream, and generally being more visible
(I don’t know much about him — I only know this because I have a friend who is a scholar of the politics of fashion who was telling me that he’s a super interesting case study in her field because he’s apparently started wearing suits recently, and this has coincided with his edging into the mainstream)
He’s a mildly-popular Twitch streamer who’s more open about his politics than most and he tends to be leftist. That’s pretty much it. People can (and have) get into arguments over him and his views but you can say that about anything online these days. I think the reporter was just surprised that a supposedly popular leftist was unknown by another supposedly leftist political candidate, as if they previously thought we all shared the same hive mind or something
He’s also been more prominent in mainstream politics in recent months, including doing interviews with journalists, using his platform to endorse candidates, (potentially) interviewing candidates on his stream, and generally being more visible
(I don’t know much about him — I only know this because I have a friend who is a scholar of the politics of fashion who was telling me that he’s a super interesting case study in her field because he’s apparently started wearing suits recently, and this has coincided with his edging into the mainstream)
Huh, I too was unaware of this. Thanks!