and managed to very effectively decrease her content
Only for the non-Patreon crowd, Nyk is still posting monthly videos for the Patreon pay pigs. In case you're unaware, Nyk posts a list of topics on his Patreon every month, and the pay piggies get to vote on the topic for the next month, then Nyk spends a month making a video essay on that topic. Those monthly video essays on Patreon aren't as elaborate and performative as his yearly videos which take months to write, shoot and edit.
a great example is looking at her contemporaries from 2016 on patreon.
Nyk's contemporaries in 2016 were Oliver Lennard/PhilosophyTube and Harry Brewis/Hbomber, not the ones you mentioned.
Oliver has over a million and half subs, Hbomber is nearing 2 million just like Nyk. These three guys were the trifecta of BreadTube, and they're all three about on the same level. They were nowhere to be found on this bubble chart though:
Again, Nyk, Harry and Oliver are TINY Youtube channels compared to the really big lefty Youtube channels like Brian Tyler Cohen and Trevor Noah, and those in turn are tiny compared to the big conservative or centrist Youtubers.
Contra can keep going and as long as onionfarms doesn't suddenly get huge one day they'll be safe from criticism forever
What do you mean with "safe from criticism"? Also, why fixate on a tiny, obscure, widely shadowbanned discussion forum like Onionfarms? Nyk's most savage criticism didn't come from KiwiFarms or the TERF fora, it came from his own community, all the lumpen-troons who hated Nyk's success and tried to cancel him, supposedly over the Buck Angel voice over, but that was just a convenient excuse for them to express their class envy of Nyk.
Regardless of any criticism towards Nyk as an individual, people are more anti-troon than ever, just because they aren't personally criticizing Nyk doesn't mean troons aren't widely hated and opposed in principle because of Nyk's and other Youtube troons' visibility on Youtube. I insist that Nyk's visibility on Youtube is directly responsible for the anti-trans backlash we're seeing right now. Nyk went out of his way to make troons seems as obnoxious and unlikable as possible. Nyk will never own this but that's the truth.
Why do you think mainstream Dems are currently embracing Brianna Wu as their Dem troon of choice? Because they've finally realized that more overtly AGP troons like Nyk and Dylan Mulvaney are toxicAF and brand-killers. Brianna Wu is merely articulating what a lot of Dems are thinking but are too scared of the unhinged AOC/DSA contingent to say out loud: