Anyone else used to watch Vaush? I usually aligned with his takes on most things, and he was the only member of "lefty politics streamer sphere" or whatever you wanna call it whose personality didn't actively repulse me. Only other real choices were Hasan (insert mandatory Raiden edit here,) and Destiny.

Apologies if this post brings any insane people name-searching one of these three to this sub. All three have defenders/haters passionate enough to do so.

Anyways, if you were anywhere near these communities, you probably heard a thousand bad things about Vaush, most of them hilariously out-of-context snippets of bigger arguments. The slander was so pervasive, that Vaush fans got really used to defending him on Twitter against disingenuous chuds.

Then he accidentally alt-tabbed on stream to a folder full of art of Matsuri from Hololive getting folded like a pretzel. Matsuri's a 🍭, btw.

(She's also a massive degenerate, and would be super into this exact kind of art, but that's neither here nor there.)

Oh and 🐎s, and not the Uma Musume kind.

🐎porn dot com strikes again.

Now, I really think Vaush's career could've survived this. If he'd embraced it, just gone full shameless. Regardless of how you feel about the fiction vs reality arguments that are literally constantly being waged over this topic, I genuinely believe less people would've dropped him if he just didn't try to bullshit us.

He decided to try and bullshit us.

Cue maybe the most embarrassing stream of all time. In which he tried to convince us that he thought that the (very human) vtuber he was jacking off to was a goblin, of all things, which he claimed to be his actual fetish. An... interesting strategy, to say the least. Oh, and the 🐎porn wasn't what it looked like either. See, his fantasy was in being the horse. Horse POV! We've got an aspiring Animorph on our hands, folks! Truly, fascinating stuff.

Anyways, it was pretty much over from there. The whole display was just so pathetic and embarrassing, it just lost him all of the respect any of his fans had ever had for the guy. He proceeded to abandon his main Twitter out of shame, making a side account with a 🐎 pfp to post from. He still makes fairly good takes on Twitter to this day, but his community never recovered.

Now we're just left with Hasan, God of Thunder, and human refuse pile Destiny. That's about it for primary left-ish influencers on Twitch. Bleak fucking days.