From my experience, when I was a “baby leftist” aka anti “tankie” lib, what got me into reading was “watching” some of her videos. Later, when I got more knowlegable I started to absolutely despise her and hate her “politics”.

But if she has a parasocial relationship with her fans, similar to the one Vaush has then I agree, maybe I just didn’t take all of her words for granted like her viewers do