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Don’t underestimate the Rogansphere. His mammoth ecosystem is Fox News for young people
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Don't a lot of people who listen to podcasts do so while driving? If so, this is eerily similar to how conservative AM radio brainwashed people who drove a lot, especially in remote areas where FM radio with music wasn't available.
Also similar: Spotify puts podcasts and music side-by-side the same way the radio dial used to. Sick of that top 10 hit? Check out what the worst people in the world are thinking today!
Makes me glad I never subscribed to Spotify
I did it when I saw all my money was going to Rogan and none to the musicians I listen to
It’s really annoying, plus the algorithm seems really locked down. Between cutting the screen space in half for podcasts and audiobooks, and the narrower algorithm, I never see anything new to listen to anymore until I take extra steps to search for it.
Goddammit I don't want another round of right-radicalization like the 90s. Fuck's sake. Wasn't living through one round enough?
Goddammit.
And the people bankrolling these podcasts, or at least sponsoring them to push a slant to the right, are fully aware of the similarities. It's why they do it, they already did the math.
Podcasters are self employed.
No, if they run ads, they are sponsored. A handyman is self employed. I don't stop working to thank DeWalt or Snap-on for providing my tools, I bought them myself.
The ads a handyman chooses to run on the side of their truck are their responsibility. Noone is forced to sell out.
You are missing the point of my original comment, there are podcasts that do get sponsored by conservative or hard right/religious right money that are filling the same niche that AM radio used to, and they are being sponsored because the right knows that it works because they already did the same thing with AM radio.
As an aside, I have never seen a handyman with an ad for a sponsor on their vehicle, ever. Maybe an ad for their own business, but that's how a service industry works, you need to advertise yourself. Podcasters are entertainers or influencers, and in our economic system, if your income isn't directly generated by the work you do (service), then it is given to you to perform or advertise (entertainment). An entertainer doesn't work for their audience. They put in work to gain and keep an audience, but no one person in the audience has the ability to tell an entertainer what to do or say, that power solely covers from the group that pays that entertainer to entertain. The owner of a venue pays a comedian or band, you pay the venue to be allowed to be entertained at that venue. The venue decides what content they put on stage because it can become associated with their brand. Patreon does allow people to directly support podcasters, yes, but if you run ads at all, you are beholden to their terms in order to continue receiving payment. It is statistically improbable that the vast majority of conservative leaning podcasters are either self funded or entirely crowd funded, just like most influencers. Those cross country Van-Lifers are largely either independently wealthy or sponsored by the brands they showcase, serving as an advertisement to their viewers, many of whom are also wealthier. Podcast hosting has a similar barrier to entry as being a SoundCloud hip-hop artist or maybe a country singer, a computer and maybe a camera, so anybody can do for extra income if there are brands or causes willing to actually make it worth the effort to do
Thats an awfully long winded way of saying its not the podcasters responsibility or fault for what is included in their content.
Sorry I disagree.
You are missing the point and at this point, I'm assuming it's deliberate.
To your point, sponsors from old republican media moved to new republican media such as podcasts so that they could make money. Pretty simple.
The podcasters are also mostly very greedy folk, who dont give a fuck who they advertise as long as they pay the most.
I'm saying that allllllll of the responsibility for this is on the podcasters head, for the only pressure being put on them is their own greed. They could just stop being greedy ego driven fuckheads, but they don't.
Plugging Behind the Bastards from coolzone media.
There's a lot of good work being done at Coolzone. But especially BtB.
Maybe that's why the reds kept wanting companies to force a return to the office.
And commercial real estate.