This is the only reason really, because he doesn't counter signal Nick and is actually friendly with him. If Sam started bashing Nick tomorrow all of his detractors would be tripping over themselves to tell us all how "Sam has always been based and smart"
A huge amount of the weird and sudden turn to anti-Hyde sentiment is largely just because of factionalism and it’s incredibly tedious to pretend otherwise. People are hating on him primarily because he did a video with Fuentes. Some people just say that outright but most people are lying about the reason. And I’ve watched groupchats turn in real time from “yeah I don’t think Sam Hyde is as funny as he used to be, his stuff isn’t really my cup of tea,” to “Sam Hyde is a fucking loser, I’ve always hated that guy, fat annoying retard. Super pretentious know-it-all. Scumbag. I heard he fucked a 17-year-old girl once, he’s a sexpest, basically a pedophile” and everything else you can imagine, just inventing new reasons to hate him rather than admitting the real reason, in the span of maybe a month, but more realistically about 2 weeks.