Back then you had to be some weird terminally online fascist to know who the hell he was. Now many casual 20 something year olds watch his shit or reference his crap because all their streamers and e-celeb personalities collaborate with him deliberately or not. And most of them are peddling the same bullshit “errmm he’s not a Nazi actually. You’re just believing the media!”
I gotta admit, he’s smart for embedding himself into the e-celeb and streamer ecosystem because now more people than ever consume his shit. Very fascinating to watch, if only he wasn’t a pedophile Nazi.
Which brings up the other thing, he’s very likely a pedophile and groomer and so are his friends. There have been many threads years ago when he was still relatively obscure accusing him of grooming young girls, sometimes underage. And now last year or the year before there was an expose piece by some trans editor who worked for him (despite knowing his reputation) getting upset because they were discriminated by his colleagues lol. Allegedly, he has multiple kids with multiple girls nowhere near his age. https://sh1teamcancel.com/2021/10/31/1/
My favorite Sam Hyde story is the time he got owned by a bunch of bronies.
He tried to scam them into giving him a bunch of Kickstarter money for an MLP fangame he had no intention to actually produce, but he did a shit job covering his tracks and was found out almost immediately, resulting in him being publicly outed and never coming close to his fundraising goal. Since Kickstarter goals operate on an all-or-nothing basis, everyone who donated to him automatically got their money back, meaning he completely wasted the time and money he put into setting up the scam.