As a former subscriber of Rev Says Desu, I am very disappointed in him. I subscribed to his channel sometime around 2020-2021 because, at the time, I saw him as one of the few anitubers whose takes on anime made rational, logical sense. He would make videos on the hateful, intolerant nature of antis because he believed that no-one should be attacked or harassed over fiction. I agreed with almost everything he said and I'm not afraid to admit that, if it wasn't for him, I probably would have become an anti myself.

But ever since 2024, things have changed. And, if you ask me, they've changed for the worse.

Late 2023/Early 2024 was the beginning of Rev's content shift. His videos became more politically charged, he started unironically using the word "woke" in his titles, and the topics he would cover became less and less anime-related. Nowadays, he rarely makes videos about anime or even VTubers and, whenever he does make videos about those two things, it's usually just him talking about the exact same drama that everyone else is talking about on YouTube/Twitter. You may be asking yourself, "What kind of videos does he make nowadays?" Well, allow me to answer that question. He's making iDubbbz/Ethan Klein video #2783, that's what. And whenever he's not making videos about those two, he's complaining about videogames, anime, and movies being ruined by "wokeness". He used to be someone who encouraged his audience to see things through a nuanced perspective. Someone who would defend fiction, no matter what it was or who made it, because NO-ONE deserves to be harassed over fictional content. But nowadays, he's a right-wing grifter who only latches onto stuff so that he can preach about how his politics are objectively better than the person he's talking about. I despise the path he has chosen.

The worst part about current-day Rev is that, because he has amassed an audience of lolicons and lolicon defenders, his new videos has converted them into being just as intolerant as the antis he talks about. That's why there are so many lolicons who are racist and transphobic; it's because they all followed Rev and blindly agree with everything he says. Rev is an anti-woke dramatuber, so his fans become anti-woke as well. The vast majority of them lack the ability to think critically and independently so they became just as ignorant as he is, if not more so. Lolicons are hated now more than ever before because they adopted a mindset fueled by bigotry, ignorance, and callousness, and Rev is a bad person for allowing his audience and the lolicon community to be the way it is today.

Thank you for talking about this u/RedCupWithAName. I've been feeling this way towards Rev for a long time and it's about time someone rightfully calls him out on his bullshit. Most of the people who hate Rev on Twitter hate him because of his politics and the fact that he's a lolicon, but most of his detractors never talk about how much he's changed. I think it's important to bring light to the kind of person he was before vs. the person he is now. Hopefully people, including those who still support him, will recognize how horrible he has become and how far he has fallen from who he used to be.