imma be so fr rn I'm pretty sure the reason Martin is so popular as a character is just because jmart is a canonical queer ship

yep 100% and also because he’s easy for “people pleasing” gay+trans+‘neurospicy🥺’ kinda ppl to project onto so they can be like “heh! well his self esteem issues are enough to discount any genuine flaws (because that’s what written into the podcast) so mine must be too! ☝️😎” so that’s like comforting to them and their learned self-victimhood or smth