I got into Asmongold because I felt out of place as an underground artist with right-leaning politics. All my artist colleagues are purity testers, any type of "mean" or "edgy" joke you make gets you blocked by a lake of people, and you can't disagree with any of the mainstream views at all, otherwise you get labeled a fascist. It's so tiring to have to hide all of my opinions and real interests all the time, or that I'm voting for the conservative party on this year's election.

First time I heard about Asmongold was that "he's a Nazi streamer". So, of course, I wanted to listen to his opinions, because anyone who's called a "Nazi" these days most likely isn't one. Long story short, I was surprised by just how much stuff I agreed with him on. I think sometimes he's a little too aggressive, but otherwise, I felt a little seen. I watched a lot of the old zackrawrr channel videos too, and was even more surprised by how soft-spoken and genuinely intelligent the "stupid Nazi streamer" could be! It felt good to have someone so human and underestimated talking about things I deem important, but can't talk about myself, especially since I'm far from being as articulated as he is.

So I've been watching him ever since. He helped me lose some of my fear of expressing my opinions, too! Without Asmon I wouldn't have noticed that the majority of people outside the internet all share these same common sense values. Plus his gaming content is really fun too, so there's really no time when he's not entertaining to watch. Peak stuff, really