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You've answered your own question.
Give it an honest good faith attempt to understand why people might like someone, and you'll probably find some sort of virtue. If you're cemented in your reality bubble and starting off with "he's a fairly toxic human" than you're not going to go anywhere.
I think your guess would be wrong too. Hacker news is still insulated enough that overly simplistic comments will down voted regardless of ideologically alignment.
I think there is always some bias, regardless of perceived insulation from external influence. I'm guessing HN attracts entrepreneurial types and Joe Rogan is well-liked by male entrepreneurs.
Maybe the author knows something no one knows
I’m not even going to touch your other comment, no sense arguing about your fairly toxic opinion.
The UX getting more and more clunky due to the podcast push really soured me, but the fact that part of my monthly subscription went to fund that person was what got me to click on the cancel button.
The switch to Deezer was really positive: the Flow auto-generated playlist is a lot more relevant to me than the Spotify weekly mixes.