I feel like the difference between Ian and Ethan's left wing turns is that Ethan at least managed to keep his personality. He tries to make jokes and be entertaining. There's a reason why he's maintained a hugely successful podcast over the years. Ian on the other hand fully transformed into a joyless soycuck zombie. He's incapable of being funny anymore, he doesn't even understand the concept of humor at this point. It's why his podcast barely cracks 2k views an episode. Ethan was right to call it out for being dogshit. Ian and Anisa have no chemistry together. How are you married for 5 years and yet have no chemistry? Their whole show is just two joyless zombies that act like they just met each other rambling about some topic nobody cares about.
I do not think Ethan had a turn. He was always a lefty. He just made edgier jokes. Many anti sjws of the past were some flavor of lefty or liberal. It's possible to still have such values but maintain a fucked up sense of humor. But now everyone is oversensitive and at the mercy of their rabid audience, and it's become all or nothing.
I distinctly remember Ethan was also a Hilary voter during the 2016 elections, the golden era for anti sjw content on youtube, and he even ended up on the news for his tweets about Hilary losing. (There is also a video of Ian where Ian explicitly said he would vote for Trump. I can't remember if it was a video with Ethan or with Philip DeFranco, it was such a long time ago.)
This is also why I think Ian could have very easily "matured" and shifted values (whether he had opposite values for real or not in the past, I can't tell if anything he said was ever real anymore), but not been such a performative faggot about it and allowed himself to become such a public toilet. And I don't think Ethan is a good example for that, because keep in mind he has also had incidents of being an annoying faggot. If anything I'd say the better examples of people who made the shift than Ethan would be Like Maxmoefoe and AnythingForViews. Those two are clearly maintaining some kind of a balance.
The reason Ian did not do the same was because he is an insecure faggot and couldn't handle being mocked for Anisa's Onlyfans. This is also why I believe he was never more "charismatic" or "confident" like many believe he was. He was just doing what was cool and acceptable in the past, and he had the irony shield to protect him. But the facade easily fell apart when he managed to get a girlfriend to take his virginity. Per Anisa's words, by the way. She took his virginity.
Literally all he had to do was not moralfag so hard, he could have continued to make mediocre shit and pivot towards leftist ideals and if anything be considered "chill now", but his ego was just too fragile. Sam Hyde is another example of how to get under his skin. He literally cannot handle not being able to control the narrative.
