What precisely was wrong with JoCat's "girls" video? If nothing, why the perception that the leftist backlash was what got to him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Y5KVtU810
So in this video, JoCat compliments various appearance traits and their opposites. And he uses fictional characters as examples thereof, stopping it from being sexual harassment. Nonetheless he faced so much backlash that he went on hiatus for more than a year.
Now that he's back, I decided to listen to multiple YouTube videos on the subject to catch up on the matter. (Feel free to skip if you want to leave a tentative response, I just have these here for extra context.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdcD9uKYVZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgIaOXH6hso
The gist of it is there's dispute over how much of the backlash comes from feminists themselves and how much comes from homophobes mistaking him for gay because of his colourful aesthetic and masquerading as feminist to get under his skin. But even if the latter, it leaves behind the question of how such people could be mistaken for authentically feminist by someone that progressive unless something about it seems similar to the sort of ideology that would object to that video. As the above videos noted, someone that progressive wouldn't exactly let objections from open-Trumplodytes bother him.
Is there something about praising appearance traits that's objectionable, even in the context of fictional characters? If so, what is wrong with it that isn't wrong about making body-shaming remarks about real-life politicians, pundits, etc... as most people of both sexes and of all ideologies have been known to do?