Well I think it has something to do with the pre-Youtube audiences. There were a ton of sites for video sharing before YouTube made them all basically obsolete so you’d have to track back to those areas. Since computers weren’t always common place, the first group of people to use them were likely straight wealthy white men/boys who are generally disconnected from politics but likely had some reactionary tendencies.

The type of people who could post on these sites were likely even higher up the hierarchy considering filming equipment was not really accessible to much of the population. People didn’t have smartphones they could just pull out and record whatever with.

Also, YouTube has always been very connected to gaming and the whole GamerGate thing is, from what I’ve heard, one of the larger catalysts that transitioned people from edgy atheism into reactionary politics.

So really it’s sort of a clusterfuck of a bunch of different cynical movements populated largely by comfortable straight white men simply because they have historically been the group to have first access to new technologies considering their disproportionate wealth. I think the overtly reactionary movements largely took hold after they felt their space was being threatened when these things slowly started becoming more and more accessible to other populations. Like a microcosmic recreation of things like the white backlash to successful Jewish and black and Chinese throughout America’s history.

At least this is my take on it from what I can gather about it. I was actually a kid when all this stuff went down.