A person used their relatively large platform to tell people that they don't support a crazy lunatic millionaire running the world's most powerful country? How scandalous!
In the USA, 2016 and onwards wasn't "just an election". It was something between a mildly harmful establishment candidate or a useless new face on one side, and "holy fucking shit are we actually letting this deranged wannabe monarch run for office?!?" on the other.
Give the man a break, it was (the start of) a crazy time, I'm actually surprised more creators didn't do something like this. If anything, it was barely even a political statement, more of a "hey fellow dems, go vote!" type thing.
No, but not understanding your audience, not being able to not divide your fanbase for absolutely no reason, and doing all that for Hillary Clinton who history will not at all be kind to…
His traffic and hot takes dropped and his influence declined to almost nothing… maybe those things aren’t unrelated?
Specifically it was at this point in 2016: https://xkcd.com/1756/
> I’m not kidding at all, that my guess is he was doing drugs and stopped.
I don’t know if he stopped or started, but something changed.