I don't know what it is like on reddit, but I feel the discourse around Astarion on yt is a bit on the toxic side in general. You mention nasty spawn support under ascended videos, the same is true the other way around. I have gotten a comment about how vile it is to not ascend poor Astarion under a comment that wasn't even about Astarion, and got some pretty bitchy reply to something that was mostly about how the writing for stopping the ritual was handled by a Spawn fan. There just doesn't seem to much room for discussion unless you 100% agree with the view of a video's creator - which means there isn't room for discussion at all.
