i was a kid and was just starting to understand english, and fell through the pewdiepie pipeline. i don't think i sincerely believed anything it was just entertainment for me, but it was poisoning the assumptions i would hold about the world. anyway i stopped when i got recommended a video from paul joseph watson talking about 'no-go' zones in sweden and how filthy muslims are. safe to say after realising these guys are racist as fuck and how smug and pathetic they are i stopped following them.

i cannot say i was radicalised, but i was definitely passively consuming their bullshit narratives. i think the important factors for deciding to cut them off for my adolescent brain was that a. i realized how uncool and spiteful they are and b. i was part of the group they hated.