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I think IH was certainly at least alt-right, he had a whole series of videos about how /pol/ left Shia permanently divided (which was pretty funny) and had another one about how they hunted down bike-lock man who tried to beat up some rightists at a protest. And there was another one about Tay AI. We can assume that he spent a fair bit of time on /pol/. He had a bunch of standard /pol/ perspectives. That plus the 14/88 in the bikelock video makes it a pretty reasonable argument IMO. How is 1488 a joke? It's a political statement in its purest form!
However, Internet Historian's content as a whole is not Nazist or even altright - he still has a youtube channel for one thing. It's overwhelmingly about funny videos and he's gotten markedly less political over time. You can sort of see the same thing with E;R. He's done a bunch of dog-whistling and hinting and it's pretty obvious where he is politically but primarily his content is about critiquing media.
If someone says 'Mao was right about landlords' then you can assume they lean in a Maoist direction, that they could be described as a Maoist. They might not be serious hardcore Maoists or know much about it, they might not be violent or do much more than wishing (on occasion) to kill their landlords and complain on twitter. But it's not unreasonable to call them a Maoist or a communist. They come out and say that, it's a window into what they believe.
It's like when leftist youtubers put in anti-capitalist digs to their videos, or make references or you can just tell from their presentation/word choice/choice of what they make videos about... Their content might not be predominantly political but we can use human wisdom to tell what the creator thinks.
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