her previous more radical beliefs
Meh. She does not strike me as the kind of person who read theory. She strikes me as the kind of person who picked up some jingoisms that made her look edgy and flounced around with them to get attention.
This is the same person who had a Stalin quote in her yearbook
Not exactly the most controversial thing Stalin ever said.
Yeah I don’t disagree with any of that, I just don’t think she wants to give up on whatever idea she had of herself as a radical, as shallow as it was. I also think a lot of her fanbase are left leaning and she’s prob getting a lot of pushback on that front.
Undoubtedly. But that’s the nature of parasocial relationships. Her material conditions incentivize behaviors in contradiction with her personal beliefs. She doesn’t really know or care about any of the online hangers-on she interacts with. She just works to maximize the number of interactions that establish her revenue stream.
