I remember being subscribed to sargon of akkad for a little bit. Maybe I thought he was doing history videos because of his name? I was a hardcore liberal by the start of gamergate, and didn't know very much about the world as I was basically a child. I eventually realized his videos went against my politics and stopped watching. There was an intermediate phase where I watched 'breadtube'. By 2020 I was deep into the chapo/MR/TMBS/hasan ecosystem. Shortly after my views solidified into what they are today (correct about everything and grounded in reality of course)