> From the outside looking in, it seems like there is an inevitable progression with gaming YT personalities and edgy humor.
It seems like this kind of humor begins with ironic tone, or just edginess for its own sake. It gets a lot of hits so the jokes get trotted out more and more often. Some in the audience start to quietly leave either due to the content of the jokes or the increasing laziness with which these jokes are deployed. The audience slowly gets replaced by people who unironically enjoy this kind of thing. This new demographic becomes larger and more vocal, driving away more and…