Fuentes has a wierdly large amount of money/connections and a legion of sychophants. That means that his presence when he breaks into the mainstream on things like podcasts is carefully curated and clipped to lure people in through the exact manner you described. He says reasonable things there and then draws them down the rabbit hole.

He doesn't have much influence and his party has been dying for a while, but what he does have is the exact power you are describing. People know nothing about him, but he says some "based and agreeable" things sometimes so people make posts like this about his thoughts as if they are valid and then it gains influence that way. It doesn't gain him direct power, but it does sway some less certain people's minds and plants the seeds for retarded ideas to sweep through.

Everything you are using to downplay and describe him is exactly what a Fed plant would want (see also, movements like Patriot Front who can be described exactly the same) to maintain their level of influence.