Dax is a weird time capsule, the guy is still doing the shit he was doing ten years ago while everyone around him moved on.
someone linked the "millenial humor" video on some thread and its sort of like that. Dax was huge in 2018 because his dr.phil interview got a huge revival in 2013 at the start of the "feminist getting rekt" era of youtube. and maddox going leftist meant tons of former fans ready for someone to take his place.
but he's fucking stale humor wise. not to talk about redbar too much but the reason he is so well liked is because every year he kept changing his show up until he became the lefty "comedian podcast reviewer" guy and while that was only 5 years ago he really went hard at these mainstream comedians, he finally broke through only in the last couple of years and that means he's got tons of supporters whereas Patrick Melton and the half dozen other podcasts he riped off in his 20 year career got stale and had their audiences ripe for the taking. Melton was king of podcasts in 2014 but because he never changed with the times he went from being on par with JRE or LOS back then to a "who?" to the point where he's got a thread here because he kept up the pedo jokes that were huge in that era.
like you'd be surprised how many podcasters out there are too stubborn and still act like its 2008 or something. Doug Stanhope is a great example, being a weird lefty libertarian that still thinks conservatives are the bad guys and didn't understand internet trolling or that black people exists.
Marc Maron and Adam Carolla used to be the JRE's of their day in terms of fame and status as "the biggest podcast on the planet" but they never moved with the times which ironically joe did. he went from advertising flesh lights in his living room to moving to an entirely new state and making new friends and having a new business and talking to new people.
Its like how if you look up other big youtubers from a decade ago so many are doing the same videos for way less viewers, whereas the pre-monitization ones just fucked off because in general the attention isn't there anymore.
As cool as it would be for one genre to be dominant forever there really is only a 8 year span at most to go from a niche to everyone's favorite thing to trash. like superhero movies, or a rock genre or rap genre.
its even faster when its not a genre but just an internet channel or podcast. Cumtown has been rapidly losing paypigs for the last two years after they stopped caring about their rebrand. the fact that a modern day dick show episode just sounds like a worse version of a 2016 dick show is part of why it sucks. even when its the same people making the same jokes the heart isn't in it. they're older and can't have the same passion, there's no goal and no where to promote to, this is why some people switch jobs or transfer every couple of years. people get stale being in the same place forever.
not that we wouldn't piss on Dax if he changed up his show or jokes or format but at minimum it would still give him a chance to not be stuck doing the same episodes forever.
one of the big reasons people loved Madonna and Taylor Swift is the concept of "eras" and especially for Madonna being early enough to feel like the trend setter. as nice as it would be to just crank out the same albums every time like AC/DC your fans move on at some point and it just gets sad but even worse because you're also now broke and have fuck all for fans.
Dax still doing the same jokes that he did in the 2000s that he stole from 90s shows that made him big in the 2010s now in the 2020s is just sad. And when he's even fatter he'll be even more of a punching bag than he is now.
it reminds me of how certain shows or comedians became jokes because of their fanbase and it was mostly because the format remained the same and they never moved on. like Dice has been more of a punchline than a comedian for a quarter century now. much like those people his friends over at WATP joke about, Dick is going to be 70 still doing fat woman jokes along with vito and riley and mint.