when you're gardening parasocial relationships to the point where you rely on them for income, you're necessarily going to have to temper yourself towards a more general audience when your current income doesn't work out, whether that's people getting bored of you or people no longer having the money to kick to you among their priorities.
And as you move your priorities, the people who originally came to you for your unique angles leave. So you need to swing more center. And your progressive wing left, and you're not going to gain them back because it's still raw, so as the progressive-center gets bored of you, etc.
And because you have to be making content for that, you're gonna start adopting the culture unconsciously because that's how conditioning, society, and language works. and the more right you go, the less they care about your actual content and the more they'll attention-bomb you for adopting their affect.
so even if you start from a good place, unless you're willing to make sacrifices in either your labor/time or your income/throughput, it changes you. usually so slowly you don't notice. you see it on YouTube, you see it on Kickstarter, you see it on Patreon, you see it in open source.
To be fair, some do radicalize left too. Many of the problems apply the same other than having a better core message though, and there are plenty of pitfalls on that path.
everywhere has a 'relative right' and a 'relative left', and the right side is the one that requires the least working on onesself and the least being up-to-date, which means it tends to also have the most people, either early in their finding out about things, or words-not-deeds.
edit/n.b.: the "right side of the left" in every place I've been calls that "Us vs Them", but it's just math and sociology, I'm not labeling people, I'm labeling the distribution graph of "conservative self focus to responsive community focus".
People already loudly tell you where they are on it.