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I dunno, there were several "anti-woke" Youtubers who pivoted from "Woke character Cara Dune is a is a terrible Mary Sue" to "Poor Gina Carano is being canceled by the wokes!" without missing a beat.
Honestly, I'd be more surprised if this Youtuber wasn't ranting about how "Marvel's gone woke!" a few months or years ago. If you're running a outrage bait channel you can totally bang on the "Wokes are weak ineffectual morons" and "Wokes are everywhere ruining society" drums simultaneously. The important part is that your viewers get to feel angry at a person or group they dislike, logical consistency is unnecessary.
I still find it funny that she was a major character in the show and was to get her own spinoff, even after saying a bunch of transphobic shit.... and instead of just quitting while she was ahead she just said "Oh and I hate jews too!"
But it wasn't the end of her career, she'll always have a job in this business as long as those jobs are in Ben Shapiro hits like... Ladyballers... a film about a washed up coach who gains success by passing off cismen as the Women's Basket Ball team "Ladyballers"
Which had originally began production not as a comedy, but a documentary about "Trans Acceptance and its negative consequences", and was quickly turned into a comedy when they couldn't get any Women's League to sign their team. Not only because they knew who Ben Shapiro was and that he can't possibly have good intentions, but because the team of cismen continuously failed tests transgender athletes have to undergo to prove their hormones are within a correct range to avoid any unfair advantage.
No I'm not kidding, Ladyballers is a real movie and it ACTUALLY started off as a Documentary until the thing the final movie claims to protest was revealed to the staff to be bullshit. And if that's not insultingly mean-spirited enough, the movie ends with a character getting punched in the balls for the crime of coming out as a REAL Transperson.
Anyway, Cara Dune, a shame I liked the character, but since Disney's allergic to recasting that's the end of that... (so I guess Krang's gonna die in the same random X-Wing crash that took out Cara Dune off-screen)