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My pop psychology take on it is that his fanbase does not want to see aspirational media. They don't want to see anything from Drive to Dragon Ball Z and say "that, I want to be like that."
They're all largely blackpilled. Rejected by society and they reject society back. And want to see themselves on the stream. Someone just as given up on life, bitter and resentful and yet even with all that, somehow still living the "dream" of streaming for a living. They take comfort that he grosses out normies and is inexplicable to people outside his fanbase; the negative polarization problem at its peak. He makes the people they hate uncomfortable and confused, so he must be doing something right.
Interesting.
There's a hentai genre called "ugly bastard" that I would also describe almost exactly like this except for sex acts obviously rather than success. Most of it is for imagining themselves doing SA. It's the same brainrot. They want to see themselves in power scenarios and they take a certain amount of pride in the self image of being the "ugly bastard", usually an overweight extremely poor hygiene neet with a neckbeard.
I could have spent my life not knowing this existed you piece of