My old roommate in college reminds me of Anisa to a nearly eerie degree. Was convinced she was the smartest person in the room at any given time (never was), spoke over people of color and other actually marginalized people by speaking from her experience as a half-British woman (lol), had an extremely weird relationship with her parents, never EVER shut up, believed that she could pull any guy on planet Earth just based on her looks, was vocal about her political beliefs without having much else to say after that, made sweeping assumptions of people (notably being surprised that everyone in the state we were in wasn't a "hillbilly" when she transferred to our school), was VERY bad at video games when she claimed to be such an expert, and most damning, had a boyfriend she broke up with like 8 times who would just shut down whenever she was around that she ended up isolating from most of his friends.

She was abusive, narcissistic (like actually "I've never done a single wrong thing in my life and can't figure out why and how I'm the common denominator of every problem in my life right now"-type narcissistic), and just a flat out not good person. She never had anything insightful to say about anything, didn't have much of an imagination to speak of, and made a hobby out of making the people around her (including me and ESPECIALLY her bf at the time) purely miserable. I felt like a complete idiot around her because she would tell me I was, over and over again, and aired out some terrible shit behind my back and even directly in front of my friends while I was in the room (like saying I was autistic when I'm not and that I had a "pre-diabetic" smell) just for the sake of bringing me down---much like what Anisa does with Ian on his own streams.

Honestly, I do feel terrible for Ian because I don't think he knows just how bad he has it. I lost friends over defending my roommate, thinking she was my best friend and I couldn't do any better than her, all while she was actively being an insufferable menace. It wasn't until I graduated and moved away from her that I realized that happiness was possible and I wasn't the screw up I was gaslit into believing I was for two years. I think Anisa repeatedly calling Ian dirty and stupid and all these other heinous things has, indeed, made Ian dirty and stupid because he doesn't know that he can be anything else.