i posted in another thread that got removed that really the important takeaway from what happened is that as he and his audience radicalized eachother. the people who didn’t want to see the edgy stuff left, and he made no effort to distance himself from it at the time, so more edgy people started following him. in the end you had what the in-group saw as edgy humour while the rest of the world saw nazi shit. and like the “layers of irony” thing that 4chan had going a few years ago, what the in-group thinks its projecting doesn’t matter.