I grew out of the youtube dramasphere ages ago so I'm not 100% on everything that's happened, but the general impression I get from Ian's conduct in the Content Cop video is that it feels like he hasn't moved on at all.
He wants to go back to 2016 where everyone is super edgy all the time and videos where you talk shit about someone's channel and Twitter posts with CS:GO surf gameplay in the background are still in vogue. He wants the clout and millions of views from talking about Keemstar or the latest "youtube lolcow."
But everyone else has moved on and that sort of thing isn't popular anymore. He's so desperate for Cawntent of that sort that he decides to attack one of his oldest friends in an hour-long chimpout like some kind of last-ditch Hail Mary for relevancy. Except it's not about Twitter posts or bad videos anymore, it's about people trying to get Klein's kids taken away over actual blood libel for the sake of CAWNNNNTENNNTTT. So now it just comes off as tone-deaf and narcissistic; the last desperate gasp of a manchild who's suffered from his inability to meaningfully adapt.
YouTubers and their obsession with sacrificing their friends, family, and everything they hold dear for one last drip of Content is going to be studied. There is no action you could take against these fucking animals that wouldn't be wrong.
The noise, someone is always turning 16, if you keep that in mind a lot of this is starting to make more sense.
as you know, these modern, and "popular" internet personality exist only after stepping up and over an older, out of date personality. the new took the olds lunch so to say.
As 2014 anti SJW took over the older atheism + lunch, there was a platform break, while SJW had to shed some of it's clear industrial roots and represent itself as woke, paving the existence of breadtube in 2019, anti sjws already were starting to verbally kill each other through bloodsports in 2017.
That's probably why you feel "everyone has moved on" H3H3 and iddubbz are clearly old, Iddubbz is bald now, and H3H3 is visibly graying. Both of them had to present as being socially reborn, to keep existing in the online sphere, to avoid any relation to what they considered the losing side of rightwing. They are an old guard that existed in a youtube which was still primary a platform for anti sjw gamergate content. All their actual contemporaries went to kill each other in blood sports. People from vegan gains to andy warski lost their teeth (PPP is the young fighter that Andy find himself attached to). They used their teeth almost 10 years ago now. H3H3 and iddubbz skirted this, H3H3 was quicker to abandon any kind of viewer that could connect him to IBS. Any survivors of IBS like ethan ralph drifted to the sketour, and it died. IBS was the audience's fill of anti sjw idols.
But the desire to see online personalities fight each other is baked in to every drama viewer, left and right wing. That's the ultimate accumulation of the viewer desires. Not to win on any actual ideological ground. It's the final drama headline, the 2 retards finally get into a screaming match where nothing is off limits.
I think people who know Ethan and Iddubbz as contemporary youtubers, and not as a podcaster will feel this drama is shitty. But to the young left, who grew up on platforms that shunned IBS, and protected the viewers from sektour/gryopers. To them this is like the first move from their arab idol using the white gollum against the jew idol.
I just think youtuber political ideological are clearly spherical in nature, and the old are replaced by the spry new, who are willingly to use dirty tactics.
But I think there is something to say, that the new personalities... are also old. Sure Ethan is 40, but hasan is 33, denims is like 30. Twtich streamers, by avoiding all kind of IBS and right wing arguments with their clique, they have increased the longevity of their idols. But this also makes the fighting way more deranged, because it's not just Mr.repzion saying he was glad his dad died, or just some one starting to abuse drugs. Kids, and wives are getting involved