Kochinski and fellow political streamer Destiny organized their communities to knock on more than 10,000 doors and make 50,000 phone calls in support of Janet Protasiewicz during the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. In response to the ban, Kochinski told The Washington Post that social media platforms are "terrible at acknowledging context and power relations when it comes to harassment." He used the term while discussing whether it could be considered a racial slur and if saying it should be a bannable offense following the ban of fellow Twitch streamer Hasan Piker for saying the word on stream. In December 2021, Kochinski was again banned from Twitch indefinitely for using the racial epithet " cracker" on stream. Avallone later said "I got wrecked in debate" and subsequent to the debate his views took a leftward turn resulting in a video titled "Why I Left The Right". In June 2019, Kochinski debated conservative YouTuber Hunter Avallone. As a result, he transitioned to YouTube as his main platform, after having created his YouTube channel that January. In 2019, he was banned from Twitch for saying that the US should invade Israel in defense of Palestinians, an incident which he later described as himself "going too far criticising Israeli imperialism". His channel also features discussions and debates with offline figures, including journalists, radio hosts, and political candidates. However, when engaging with conspiracy theorists, Kochinski generally does not spend much time on research or debunking debated topics, as he believes that taking a more amiable approach is better at influencing people away from such hardened views. His content features himself discussing news events and contentious issues, and debating other political streamers from the left and right, often in a confrontational style aimed at making his opponent appear unintelligent and often utilizing the research skills and knowledge he gained from his sociology education to back up his arguments. He also uses memes and internet slang in his videos to appeal to the audience of primarily young people online. Kochinski mimicks the style of right-wing YouTubers and utilizes similar video titles so that his videos are suggested by recommendation algorithms to those at risk of radicalization, a common strategy employed by the left-wing BreadTube community on YouTube. While appealing to what he calls "masculine tendencies", Kochinski has aimed to create an inclusive community and has comparatively high proportions of female, gay and trans people in his audience. Kochinski felt that other members of the online left at the time were too academic to reach the demographic of insecure white men that he thought was most susceptible to online radicalization and he opted to instead create loud, angry content that he thought would be more likely to appeal to them. His first appearances online were in discussions with the political streamer Destiny, and encouraged by Destiny's audience he later began a Twitch channel of his own. Kochinski has livestreamed debates with far-right figures such as Stefan Molyneux and Sargon of Akkad, which have millions of views. Kochinski studied sociology at Humboldt State University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2018. Ian Kochinski was born on February 14, 1994, in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Beverly Hills. Ian Kochinski (born February 14, 1994), better known as Vaush ( / v ɔː ʃ/ ⓘ vawsh), is an American left-wing YouTuber and Twitch streamer who debates and discusses politics online from a libertarian socialist perspective. On libertarianism's relationship with socialism
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