It's because people thought she was a leftist when it seems like she was a liberal all along. It feels like a betrayal. There's no similar thing with people who were always openly liberal because it's a given that they were never correct, so leftists rarely argue about them.
I lost interest in her pretty quickly even as she was just becoming popular because although she put an anarchist persona in her videos ("Tabby" I think?), she only ever seemed to do so to present some HorSeSHoE ThEoRy and imply that persona wasn't worth listening to except superficially and just needed to tone down her ExTrEmiSm. There were other streamers—even if they weren't as "polished" and weren't starting to go viral—who were as good if not better on leftist feminism and trans issues, so it just wasn't worth putting up with Contra's horseshit takes.
It's because people thought she was a leftist when it seems like she was a liberal all along. It feels like a betrayal. There's no similar thing with people who were always openly liberal because it's a given that they were never correct, so leftists rarely argue about them.
I lost interest in her pretty quickly even as she was just becoming popular because although she put an anarchist persona in her videos ("Tabby" I think?), she only ever seemed to do so to present some HorSeSHoE ThEoRy and imply that persona wasn't worth listening to except superficially and just needed to tone down her ExTrEmiSm. There were other streamers—even if they weren't as "polished" and weren't starting to go viral—who were as good if not better on leftist feminism and trans issues, so it just wasn't worth putting up with Contra's horseshit takes.