Why does he need to be defended? Does he actually contribute to the issues he is concerned with in any way that doesn’t also benefit his brand? How would any streamer, regardless of their professed politics, be worth anything to a revolutionary process? Why is he not a mere spectacle?
He used to be really important for spreading leftism nowadays in opinion his usefulness is outweighed by the danger he’s in and the hostility of twitch and the online sphere towards leftist creators