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The internet is simply not a deciding factor as far as ideological adoption goes compared to other factors. I watched that youtube video and it is not indicative of general internet trends of which youtube is but one particular. The problems presented in the video simply comes down to strategy and optics as CC lets on at the very end and he probably disagrees with you underlying point as well.

"The collapse of leftist counterculture happened in the 1980s under Reaganism."

Yes and no. The revolutionary period of the cc came to an end by the end of the 70s(before that in the early 70s even) but there was still viable leftist non right cc for a generation or so afterwards before the whole language was institutionally and culturally recuperated during the neoliberal epoch. Right have been a part of the internet for a long time particularly if you look at ancaps who are not the same problem as the altright. The altright are predicted by worsening neolib times and leftist failures not the internet. 4Chan was not a nazi hotspot in the 00s and you're beginning to see it return to that form now with the rise of such things as anti-IDPol discourse. The altright simply took advantage of those tired of IDPol and tumblr. If you look at someone like Vaush for example he's a good example of successful optics in the age of high speed internet memes and video propaganda.

Again the internet is simply not the deciding factor. Both sides have money sources if you look at progressive ideological sugar daddies who have their own economic interests. Liberalism is part of the left.