This is exactly it, and why I'm being such a boor about it.

When a streamer invites you on to discuss or debate, they're inviting you to provide them with content. Your strongly held beliefs, or knowledge of a subject becomes a form of capital extracted from you. https://twitter.com/HavenFrenchLN/status/1259339376904921088

In other words, when the chud streamer types invite you on to their channel, they're inviting you to be exploited for their benefit.

That's why I'm so harsh on people who go on their channels. They're debasing themselves in the hopes of winning a popularity in sweepstakes.

If you're willing to trade away your strongly held beliefs or knowledge for the hopes of being the one to change the mind of people financially incentivized to idée fixe themselves against outside information...I'm sorry but I can't respect you.

You shouldn't respect yourself.

I got a few other invites from people asking me to drop by and discuss/educate in good faith, and I turned those down as well.

Because *their* content will only wind up becoming content for the chud types to react to on their streams. All paths lead to exploitation.

I say all that to say, once again, this is the only good YouTuber