And most of these "left" shows are basically DNC mouthpieces who hate anyone to the left of them (looking at you Cenk)...shows how hard it is to grow an audience without being backed by --and thus narrative driven by --corporate interests.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
125 points (97.7% liked)
politics
21775 readers
3845 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I’d be interested in seeing one of these for the U.K.
Keep in mind, these are almost certain to be the same people who complain about how political everything is these days. What they mean is that they don't want to see leftist/progressive memes, but they're fine shifting the Overton widow to the right.
What comedy are the right making? Comedy takes skill to write and deliver and their idea of jokes is just punching down on people without any punchline. Something that anyone can do by just being an asshole.
I hate to say it but I enjoy Kill Tony and it's one of the most popular weekly stand up podcasts currently. Tony himself is unabashedly right wing, and the show is/was funded, or produced, by Joe Rogan.
Just go to comments on literally any YouTube… so ~~fowl~~ foul
Most of those comments are bots. Moderation on YouTube is atrocious.
I try to duck out of any comment thread before it gets nasty. So about 2 comments in.
Edit: Potential pun thread ruined by reddwarf
So the comment sections are packed with birds then eh? 😃
But yeah, the language and attitudes in youtube comments are indeed quite...foul.
Had to do it.... 😁
Comedy? Did they mean self-inflating shoulder clapping racist mysogynist guffawing?
Now remove all of the fake users and bots, which make up over half of active users on social media platforms.
It’s because they fucking own all of the infrastructure and social media services. Jesus it’s pretty fucking obvious
I think it's worrisome to see the graphic, but the graphic also is strangely limited and the numbers aren't clear whether they are combined totals across platforms.
Presumably traditional media that has an online presence is excluded on purpose, but it's not clear why having a traditional media presence should negate the total online-only viewership. E.g., Daily Show with 35m+ across different social platforms? Colbert with 15m+? John Oliver with 10m+? It makes it feel like this is ragebait.
Across platforms — YouTube, Rumble, Twitch, Kick, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — right-leaning online shows accounted for roughly 82% of the total following of the online shows we assessed.
Yeah, it kinda seems like they focused on places already known for having right leaning algorithms. I would be curious to see what, for instance, NPRs numbers are in comparison.
It is a crime that Thom Hartmann isn't more popular. The dude still regularly hosts Bernie Sanders and pretty much called everything that is happening today going back at the end of the Bush Administration. He might be the most prescient and informed guy on Earth. At the very least he pays attention to a lot of the moving parts within government and makes pretty good calls about what is going down.
I mean, let's be real here, most people on the left are either like us, on niche platforms that dont do influencers, or are on TikTok/Bluesky, and once again, having an actual influencer following is difficult on those platforms. The leftist influencers that do exist are either extremely controversial or like singing to the choir and have a very tribalist mindset that keeps people who may be willing to listen out.
All I get from this is that right-wingers are more likely to be so stupid that they rely on somebody else to tell them what to think.
I’ll believe Joe Rogan and comedians like Theo Von (who I grew up with, incidentally) have a big audience but who the fuck listens to all those other people? Podcasts aren’t like the AM radio of yore where people listened to Rush Limbaugh and then just passively listened to whomever was next. Most conservatives I know who are into talk radio listen to sports stuff like Bobby Hebert bitching about the Saints to calm down after a loss.
ESPN radio parodied it so maybe my experience is different. https://youtu.be/lb-FL5j3FTU
It looks like a lot of these are people mostly on YouTube so they will be passively listening to whatever auto-play picks for them next.
The main audience for these isn't the boomer conservative listening to talk radio on his way home from work. These are younger men listening to it in the background while they play video games. Hell they have asmongold on here and from what I can remember he was just a WoW streamer a couple years ago.
I went to summer camp and high school with Theo Von Kurnatowski and he’s a good dude. I took Art III with him and he wrote poetry. He’s probably the same person in private now but all the incentives in the “talk radio” podcast industry are to be the next Joe Rogan.
I mean, people change but if he’s right wing now, it’s going to take us a generation to clean their mess up.