Methinks I smell desperation.
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Tim Pool didn't rise to popularity after going to Sweeden, he was actually already quite popular as an independent journalist. I know, because I was watching him before that event.
He went there because there was an obvious contradiction between what the media was saying, what the government was saying, what Trump was saying, and what witnesses were saying; so as a guy who had been personally covering riots and wars already, he figured it would be worth it to check it out, particularly after PJW said he would pay 10k to anyone who would go there. Tim didn't take him up on the offer to avoid biasing his conclusions, but it was what made him go. And to be clear, this was also after (what I call) the Rape Riot in Cologne, Germany; so violence from immigrants was a major story that looked like there had been official suppression. Earlier in the year, Trump had also called out "No-Go Zones" in France as well, and was rebuffed by Leftists there, despite some people on the ground claiming it was true.
All that confusion around competing narratives is what convinced him to go, and it was that trip that basically made him Persona Non Grata on the Left, and what really shocked him was how the Sweedish government was extremely involved in wanting to keep his reporting suppressed. He was already popular as an independent, center-left, libertarian leaning journalist; and after that he started getting slandered as far-right.
Aka a nobody to anyone who isn't terminally online and political obsessed. No offense meant by that my dude, but you know what I mean.
That incident is what catapulted him into main stream name recognition, a Right wing fan base (who would constantly attack his fence sitting for years after), and his current level of power.
It was absolutely his moment of cracking into the big leagues, even if he did so for entirely legitimate reasons.
The concept of "independent journalist" was different back in 2010-2016. At the time "journalist" still held some kind of weight instead of being a epithet. This was an era when Vice News had actually done good work... partly because of him.