Sorry for derailing, but this guy is basically Mald 2.0.
You usually see the same reaction from any Centrist (but not really)-types who don't want to risk alienating half their audience by condemning one side or the other, but when confronted with political shit outright, they either ignore, give non-answers, or mock something that's deemed an "easy target" to keep themselves "balanced" in the eye of the viewer and are at less risk of scaring them off.
In this instance the easy "right-wing" target is the concept of "woke"/"anti-woke", and they will handwave any legitimate grievences because to to remain "le sensible centrist", both sides of the political isle need to have their loud retards. Of course this acknowledgement and criticism only goes one-way in part (how often do they mock left-wing targets?), but at least these types try to keep politics out of the content the best they can. Even in this example his attempt to appear sensible on the matter of Games workshop's retcons and insertions into the 40K setting in order to appease the spectre of an audience that doesn't really exist, he insists that these changes are
natural and will continue to happen, just as they did in the past to get to Warhammer's current iteration. But rather than continue to elaborate, he steers into a the topic of "woke" and via mockery of an easier target he doesn't have to explain his points any further, though his ridicule mostly comes down the word itself being dumb, but I digress.
Mald did/maybe does the same thing, trying to take the sensible route on the subject of the Russian/Ukraine war with regards to how you treat Russians now.
But yeah as other people have pointing out: being confidently wrong about something is the most infuriating thing you can do, and when it's your whole personality people's opinions can flip on you hella quick. People like Mald, Josh Hayes, Moistcritical and so on don't have political opinions worth mulling over because they just move on the wind of perceived online sentiment, voicing approvingly if it's well regarded, or remaining silent or muted when it's the opposite.
I think this part of the reason Mald stood out as a hate sink, because when it came to something he disagreed with "politically"/personally, he expressed genuine seethe and wouldn't shut up about it, throwing a tantrum for a couple days, insulting Ross, and encouraging his viewers to encourage others not to sign the petition. His pettiness, arrogance, and laziness alone would've facilitated him being one of the more hateable figures online, with or without the poop gnome, his Second Life antics, and even his opposition to SKG — he would've pissed someone off just through persistent exposure and not owning up to any of his fuckups.
Mald becoming hated was a fixed event in time, destined to happen.
