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"Doesn't look like anything to me."
The left is approaching the problem statement from the wrong direction: men aren't right wing because they listen to a magically popular midwit trash goblin, the roach king is popular precisely because he shits on leftist shibboleths. Its a literal blind spot for the left to see any positive value in the anti-woke and generally anti-identitarian rhetoric of Asmongold, which is one of many blind spots but the most pertinent one. The only time such data can be noticed is when it is a cudgel to attack enemies "the evil men like Asmon only because they are anti-woke" or "Asmon is anti-woke because he needs to appeal to chuds!"
Viewership stats seem opaque but my gut tells me the right wing anti social-justice creators have way more traction than social justice. I did a quick peek to see how Breadtubers are doing and I didn't realize how inconsequential they are, much less against Asmongold. This just reinforces the point that the left wing just doesn't have the sauce to keep audiences engaged, but the reason for that isn't the packaging its the message itself.
Leftists are hoping that they can infiltrate mens spaces to share the message, convinced that the gatekeeping is what keeps the message from being received. Its like they never learnt the problem is the message itself. Infiltrating mens spaces to spread the gospel of The Future Is Female doesn't create converts, it hollows the space. Shoving ugly they/thems in Concord didn't tap into Modern Audiences and for all the technicolor progressives populating Overwatch R34 still clearly shows skinny hot chicks dominate.
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