This, only he did join for a season or two back in S17 or something.
Unlike other people I HAVE actually actively hid the VHL all these years. There's been occasions where I've had to fess up to various people (my brothers, my ex) because I was acting so damn sketchy sometimes, but they quickly forgot after. I grew up in a redneck small town where doing distinctly different/nerdy/outcast things was basically a social death sentence. You didn't want to be known as the kid who watches anime or reads comics or anything else nerdy or (in hindsight) ridiculously inoffensive things like that. Basically you liked things like partying, hockey, farming, being outside, etc. or you were a fucking weirdo. It's not that if you played video games you were weird, but if that was openly your MAIN thing, you kind of were. It's kinda fucked up in hindsight, but blending in was definitely the right play.
But to this day I still have hangups with admitting to people that I really enjoy certain video games even, never mind something like the VHL, or even DnD. But there's no stigma in my main friend circle, and it's dropping in the broader circles now too, so I don't as much feel the need to hide it anymore. Like Austin, I certainly won't actively volunteer that info, and I probably still will never podcast in front of anyone, but I'd be less ashamed to tell people I do this now. Pretty much everyone knows I play DnD now anyway (although I only picked that up this year).