The more he embraces conspiracy theories, the less I find him persuasive. At this point, with his embrace of anti-vaccination ideas and being completely mostly to medical science and the scientific community out of contrarianism, I find him more annoying than interesting.
Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
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Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
memoryholing episodes == ?
Spotify didn't bring over the old episodes with people like Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes, and Milo Yiannopoulos. > “There were a few episodes they didn’t want on their platform,” Rogan said, per DMN. “And I was like, ‘OK, I don’t care.'” https://www.thewrap.com/spotify-deletes-joe-rogan-podcast-ep...
Kinda curious, do fans .. .care about that?
I guess some do but I don't think I ever listen to past podcasts that I've already listened to...
Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
#63The ones with Carmack and an ex-pilot (regarding UFO) were interesting. Other than that I really didn't have any knowledge of. It's more of the people he interviewed then his channel.
Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
#64Joe has had one hell of a run, I don't think he minds losing influence
Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
#65I'm paying Spotify Premium and still have to listen ads during the show. Spotify also sends video even though I just need the audio. It's a waste of valuable bandwidth and CPU. If there would an alternative I would take it. Anyway I have definitely listened JRE way less lately...
Not a single-video-file like solution, but you might think e.g. Youtube, Spotify etc could sync a separate audio file and stop the video streaming when a tab is hidden. Such a predictable waste of bandwidth, as you observe, that it might even merit browser support.
YouTube premium does this.
Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
#66I thought this at first, but now think the opposite is true. His viewpoints were more diluted previously. A smaller base is of regular listeners paradoxically makes his messages stronger.
Does Joe Rogan have “messages”? I thought his whole thing was to be a neutral place for interesting conversations.
If he’s trying to deliver specific messages now, that would certainly affect who wants to listen to him.
Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
memoryholing episodes == ?
Spotify didn't bring over the old episodes with people like Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes, and Milo Yiannopoulos. > “There were a few episodes they didn’t want on their platform,” Rogan said, per DMN. “And I was like, ‘OK, I don’t care.'” https://www.thewrap.com/spotify-deletes-joe-rogan-podcast-ep...
Shame. Not to condone these people, but since getting along with everyone was Joe Rogan's thing, I think they should've embraced it. But Joe was most likely not glad to preserve that part of his career either, otherwise I assume he would protest.
Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
#68I stopped watching purely due to the Spotify deal. I was willing to give it a try until I saw that they were memoryholing episodes. I might be in the minority here but it felt like a betrayal. If he wanted more money he could’ve invested in his own platform like many others and people would’ve followed. There’s plenty of other content in the sea.
What does memoryholing mean?
Deleting something produced in the past such that it cannot be found anymore.
Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
#69The ones with Carmack and an ex-pilot (regarding UFO) were interesting. Other than that I really didn't have any knowledge of. It's more of the people he interviewed then his channel.
I had no idea John Carmack had gone on the podcast.
Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence
#70I stopped watching purely due to the Spotify deal. I was willing to give it a try until I saw that they were memoryholing episodes. I might be in the minority here but it felt like a betrayal. If he wanted more money he could’ve invested in his own platform like many others and people would’ve followed. There’s plenty of other content in the sea.
What does memoryholing mean?
Wiping and unacknowledging something's past existence. Think unpersons in 1984.