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American Political Influencers ... In Eastern Europe? (The Globalisation of the Culture War)
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- Sep 14, 2026
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In this wide-ranging interview, Romanian streamer and VTuber Romanian TV discusses his journey from early 2000s leftism to opposing modern identity politics and censorship. He explains how Reddit bans during the Gamergate era radicalized him and why Eastern European perspectives differ sharply from those in the US and UK. The conversation covers algorithmic suppression replacing old-school bans, the rise of safety rhetoric as a control tool, digital ID schemes, and the coming privacy scandals around home robots. Romanian TV also shares insights on Romanian culture, immigration, historical Muslim integration, and why anime themes now align more with right-leaning values than Western entertainment. Episode Transcript Malcolm Collins : Hello. I’m excited to be here with VTV or Romanian TV, the guy who used to VTube as a troll. I don’t know if you still do that. But he is one of the as I hear from everyone, one of the longest streamers in, like, the right wing online sort of YouTube space. And when our channel before we were even a right wing channel, he was one of our most overlapped channels in terms of subscribers, which I always thought was very interesting. And that’s actually where I first found his channel, and I started watching it. It’s fantastic. And somebody suggested we have him on, and I’m really excited to talk. And what I wanted to start with was you have become a somewhat large figure in within right wing, you know, Internet tubing or whatever you wanna call it, American politics, but you are Romanian. When did you start focusing and and, like, living in Romania, not, like, ethnically Romanian. When did you start focusing on American politics, and how did that happen for you? Romanian TVee :Yeah. Well, I didn’t start calling myself as a right wing at first.…