Didn't know about that side of his talent. Among broader Russian audience Stiver was known as a maintainer of the largest pirate library in Russian (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634780).
It’s another sign of the performative society we live into, where work and accomplishments don’t matter but virtue signalling does.
To be frank, fuck them. I’m not inventing an entire persona and stuff just to make some weirdos happy.