ive told this story before but the hearts of iron forums (back in the days of hoi2/3) were the first place i discovered mask-off neo-nazism, well before it became mainstream and cool.

there were all these after action reports (aar's) that people did for the paradox games, like text+screenshots lets plays but usually as the form of a story with conversations from the perspectives of the various leaders of the nation. most people played germany in hoi, and you can imagine the aars out of these with the comedic chats between hitler and goering and goebbels etc about how great their war was going etc were absolutely batshit

i made some comment there once about heinrich himmler being a fucking loser incel who would have been a 4chan school shooter if he was born today, and multiple people came out of the woodwork to tell me hey but he made something of himself, he was the head of an entire government department while what have i done, clearly i am living in my mothers basement. it was quite shocking to see at the time and its remarkable how the same interaction would be so normal and expected these days