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I thought you said you only watched clips of him? I assumed you meant by other creators.
Trump supporters don't actually care about context though. They say that shit for propaganda purposes. Vaush supporters bring up context because he literally gets clipped out of context for oppositional propaganda purposes.
Also, there isn't always an "out". Some of the things Vaush has said/done are bad even with context. Like when he told his followers to go harass Contrapoints on Twitter once because he was upset with her and wanted to "Force her to see reason" or whatever. When he was unnecessarily nasty to TJ Kirk during some debate. Or when he flashed on screen AI generated and drawn porn of a canonically 16 year old character and bestiality.
There are a few other things I'm probably forgetting.
Jimmy Dore is 100% vapid grift. Destiny is a terrible human being but he is also almost certainly not a grifter. He says what he means and means what he says.
Vaush is someone who is significantly egotistical, narcissistic, impulsive, and short sighted. But he is not a controversy-monger, on that front he is just a dumbass.
No, I have seen videos he himself put out to see the full context.
Trump has also had controversies where he's crossed a line, like the "Access Holywood" leak that ones one of the very few times Trump actually issued an apology. He still survived it, just like Vaush still has a following despite some instances that were either genuine mistakes or miscalculations. If you live right up by the line, occasionally you are going to cross it.
If I point out Trump's failure to denounce the KKK, for example, his supporters will point out that he claimed there was a technical issue and later did denounce them. Likewise, if I point out some shitty thing Vaush said, they'll pull out some similar excuse or context. There's no reason to assume good faith in one case and bad faith in the other. Perhaps some Trump voters wouldn't care if he didn't have an excuse (though some might), and perhaps some Vaushites wouldn't care if he didn't have an excuse (though some might). It's the same tactic, the same formula, the same kind of calculations and the same psychology. Just as Trump supporters will make fun of critics for "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (which is caused by his controversy bait), so too do Vaushites have "Vaush Derangement Syndrome" (caused by his controversy bait).
In any case, he is 100% not worth watching and is best completely ignored. He contributes nothing but controversy and brainworms, whether unintentionally as you claim, or intentionally as is actually correct.