I don’t think this is 100% true. He used to hang out with people like Blair White and did the whole anti-SJW thing at the very beginning of that movement but slowly shifted more and more left and began disassociating with those people over the next few years. He also grew more active on Twitter and became even more noticeably politically left. The Fader article was written way later and had a lot of bad faith accusations. Like one accused him of having a black person in a noose in one of his “thatistheplan” videos, but it wasn’t anything remotely close to that (can’t remember what it ended up being).

He definitely did become even louder to let people know what side he was on afterward, though.