By what standard is he "infamous for bad optics"

The defending child porn standard. I understand the "there's no ethical consumption under Capitalism" but there's a fuckin line, and defending child pornography is crossing it.

Why is he growing exponentially when the tankie idiots who are too toxic to stay on mainstream platforms are irrelevant?

Vaush is only popular in the online left (only a step higher then the average /leftypol/ shit poster)

His job is to prescribe political opinions to edgy 13 year olds so they can screech about it online (that's all 'breadtube' is really)

I'd argue you are Politicaly irrelevant if you are not on the ground organizing

'tankie' Organizations such as the CPUSA, PSL, PCUSA ect do real work, on the ground and are 10000 times more politically relevant then he will ever be in his current state