@PurpCat @33c74427f3b2b73d5e38f3e6c991c122a55d204072356f71da49a0e209fb6940 He got into some hot water back in 2018 where he made full podcasts exclusive to donors on Patreon while only posting clips on YouTube. It got so bad that people were posting antisemitic slurs in his comments so he disabled comments on all of his videos. I think that's when Luke Smith got popular because he was basically the polar opposite of Lunduke in a lot of ways.
He seemed to make a comeback in recent years because he has been exposing woke and pro-WEF agendas in the tech-industry (FOSS or otherwise), and Luke Smith has stopped making videos as of 2023.