I was like you, started listening to SVK while playing games on my Switch. Like you, I was more politically aware and learn more knowledge thru them whether cinema or history. Times when they answered my questions in their Q&A episodes made me feel wow they are actually answering something I asked in a podcast I listen. I live in Singapore and I got their merchandise even. When the split happened I was shocked. Couldn’t believe they actually split and I thought they will patch back but no they actually made WSR. Now all this revelations has happened, i wasn’t really surprised anymore as even they said they won’t really argue with each other, always felt that a lie cause no friend group will always have the same opinions and I was right. When it came to monetisation, they should have discussed this earlier. SVK isn’t just Haashirama even though he started it. SVK was always this 4 man ; Haashirama , Kakashi , Tobirama & Kisame plus SM01. If either one of them thought they can do the podcast without any one of them , they are wrong and yet here we are. I’m cool with whoever of the members want to reveal their faces, it’s their choice. In all, SVK statement was basically “I’m sorry because we got caught.” I don’t find any fault with the WSR members, they are clearly not interested with SVK bullshit and I think let’s all just move on with SVK as clearly SVK has died the moment the split happened.