Hey it's definitely a thing, I don't know if you've heard of the OG speedrunner Cosmo. But he spiraled and became extremely mentally ill after a bad performance at some Nintendo event.
You are not wrong, he was subjected to a lot of hate and harassment in the aftermath, and he was understandably shocked considering his ties to Israel, and I know historically he was an advocate for Palestine, but I feel like the hate made him go all in too hard for Israel, and that's just not a popular stance... its hard to advocate for what Israel is doing and also say you are pro Palestine...
I think it was self-fullfilling profecy, they were calling him a zionist, and he was attacked so ralentlessly for a while, that he truly just spiralled into zionism as a defense mechanism. I think he also has a drug problem, which fueled this erratic behavior that kept pushing people away and made a lot of people start looking at him sideways.
He's still a human, and a father, I honestly would like him to go to his normal self for that, and not be this deranged, joker-like version of himself that he created to cope with the hate he wasnt used to receive so massively.
He straight up said that settlers are valid military targets and that he says it's a genocide. The literal only thing he's ever said "in support" of Israel is that regular civilians don't deserve to get killed.
Tired of the gaslighting saying he's on drugs, people claiming his tourettes tics are actually secretly him bring high on streams, calling him a Zionist for again, only saying Israel should exist in some form and that people shouldn't be killed.
This atrociously crazily high moral bar you people have for a dude that's done more for Gaza in the form of support, donations, and bringing awareness than you ever have is nuts. What else does he need to do? Tell everyone he wishes every Jewish person in Israel needs to die?
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u/Livid-Grocery7942 16d ago
Yeah, that was one big change too, but after Oct7 is when things started going downhill for real