it seemed to me at the time that buck’s turn for the terf was not well known (or maybe early in the process of even happening) before that vid came out, and has since gotten much worse

idk how much worse it's gotten since then, but i rewatched her canceling vid some time ago because i had only seen it before my egg cracked and wanted to take a new look at it now that i understand that part of the debate. And well, she posts a collage of his tweets and ... they're just awful. Not as bad as the Sal Grover bootlicking i saw recently, but still inexcusable. I'm definitely holding it against her that she doesn't want to judge him on things like literally confirming the "transtrender" concerns of moms who try to keep their kid from going on HRT.

maybe its for the best, but it makes me sad that we can’t have these conversations openly even here.

To clarify, i don't think people here would take it in bad faith, but i have some very strong opinions on certain ways of living with dysphoria and the odds a cis person would misunderstand them and say something dumb and hurtful to a trans person are very real and just not worth it. I'd only have that discussion on our queer boards where it would happen entirely uncoupled from any debate about streamer drama. Today's Contra vid actually has a good example of what could happen when it shows that clip from V*ush where that slimy fuck weaponizes Natalie's substance abuse problems when he's telling his fanbase to harass her. She seems to be in a lot of pain cis people cannot understand and will never be in a position to criticize, and that's different when you've walked a mile in her shoes and can tell her in good faith "girl, you're hurting yourself when you think about your transness like that. Don't do that to yourself." Cis people need an incredibly high amount of second hand experience with trans people to make a call like that, i'm talking stuff like having been in a longterm relationship with a trans person or being a competent gender therapist.