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Does he even do the news segments anymore? It seems like lately it's just him bringing in guests, from the episode previews.
Dax Herrera / Dick Masterson / Daxipad / Juju The Cow / Wolfie / The Dick Show (TDS), The Biggest Problem in the Universe (TBPITU) / New Project 2 - Balding least funny contrarian paedophile defender in the universe, "women are fat" jokes virtuoso, e-daddy of Sektards, chaser and cross-species roleplay sodomy enthusiast. Roleplays as a cow named Juju while he gets fucked in the anus by women. Fat.
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Does he even do the news segments anymore? It seems like lately it's just him bringing in guests, from the episode previews.
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Not lately. He once had a news babe who wouldn't even get on Camera but was in studio which shows how bottom of the Barell he's scraping. Funny thing is even if it was a money thing, he has a great talent pool of females who will do it for free.
- Ayden Paladin (she's a massive fan and her career was mostly built off covering the Maddox drama)
- Peach (she's stated she feels weird charging Dax)
- Veronica LeVrey (Dax hints at that he's banging her and constantly shows off that they talk IRL)
- Bleh Rodriguez (fan of the show that built her own following of orbiters)
- Lenora Claire (personal friend of Dax)
- Cecil McFly (she's grown in popularity after covering Onision and has been a fan of TDS for a while)
Honestly even some joke "news babes" would work
But as we learned from Modern Medusa's video, the news babe segment is not about show quality, it's a weird casting couch for Dax and his friends.
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Looks like a 2nd episode came out a month ago, and looks like Modern Medusa lurks the thread but isn't gonna talk about any more of the drama other than some tounge and cheek harvest & Ben jokes.
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Small correction, Aydin Paladin's "career" was built off of the skeptic crowd, with Sargon et al. She then moved onto "manosphere" people like TL;DR (pronounced "teal deer", if you don't know about him) and that Alison Rapp chick from the Honey Badgers. She sort of floundered around after that with her own fanbase and making appearances on other shows, notably stuff like the Killstream and BYBS when it was still around.
She's got a thread here with some details about that, but basically she's an attention-hungry thot who gets on shows because she can technically say that she's a sociologist. But yeah, he could pull her anytime because Aydin's an attention whore, the only problem is that she's not very photogenic - she looks like a joke Altmer after five minutes of fucking around in TES:IV Oblivion character creation screen.
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Welp, straight from the horses mouth. Suspicion of money laundering is the reason, not the section 10 wrong think/hate speech he was using for pity and grifting.
Also Dax, why not just ask them to axe the whole patriot act? Comes off like you are begging senators to legalize money laundering.
Seriously, why does anyone believe or trust anything Dax Herrera says?
Also Dax, why not just ask them to axe the whole patriot act? Comes off like you are begging senators to legalize money laundering.
Seriously, why does anyone believe or trust anything Dax Herrera says?
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You're missing the narcissistic stupidity of a guy who a) assumes US Federal Congressmen know who he is, b) assumes said Congressmen know what New Project 2 is, and c) believes they would be swayed by his argument to actually get rid of the PATRIOT Act.
Also, iirc I'm pretty sure the patriot act per se no longer exists, as it was incorporated into another act.
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I'm surprised he didn't ask them to call into the show.
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d) Said congressmen either check their Twitter or have staff running their Twitter that tell them about what topics they get tagged with. I can't imagine with all congresspeople deal with they listen to a lot of non blue checkmark, non district individuals who tag them. Especially since most of them not only support, but make the Patriot Act more powerful.
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Rand Paul has stated he hates the Patriotic Act before.
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There are a few, but it's rare. It gives them too much power. And even the ones that say they hate it, not many even talk about trying to actually repeal it. Rand Paul is the exception unfortunately.
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Holy shit that is a damning tweet. That's like asking them to legalize meth because you can't get an adderall perscription.
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I want to dig into the Patreon inflation theory a little more. Keep in mind, this is currently just theory and based off the strange inverse relationship of downloads and engagement going down, but donations going up. I know it's controversial, but I feel it's worth looking at.
This is total earnings on Patreon the whole time.
We see a massive dip October 30th. What happened then?
Not much. Dax got banned on Twitter.
Suddenly spikes to $24k and he gets a massive influx of 417 new patrons. What happened between then to cause such a big upswing in not only Patrons but the dollar amount Patreons give?
The Lolsuit
Makes sense. Gradual loss of interest from the fanbase, Maddox does the stupidest thing he ever did, internet corrects the perceived wrong
So here is what weirds me out and the trend that we see on Grapheon. Past that point we see a new trend where Dax keeps growing in Patreons (again, despite his engagement going down, downloads going down, and admission that the podcast is not growing). That yellow line (patrons) also almost stays perfectly fixed along side ups and downs with earnings, in fact we see an increase in the gap.
I have heard this explained as fans are alternating months when they pay. This may be true, but all at once? That's a hell of a coincidence.
So what do other successful podcasts look like when they ascend?
lines stay pretty close, infact it looks like people end up giving more money over time. I can't vouch for the legitimacy of Chapo Trap Houses numbers, so lets go to other examples
Cum Town as far as I know are all solid dudes, but again I cannot vouch for them as I don't listen. However, We see a similar trend, Patrons give more money over time.
Okay, I can vouch for Last Podcast on the Left. They are very popular, have a spotify exclusive deal, have an adult swim spin off show, consistently in the top podcasts. While this one definitely fluctuates we see the data support a correlation between Patrons and earnings and it is a pretty tight one. I don't wanna get an excel spread sheet out but if someone wants to do an r value it should give a correlation percentage.
So what does massive fuckery look like?
I want to emphasize sword and scale is not the ones doing the fuckery here. If you haven't looked into it the host Mike has had people fuck with him hard for a VERY long time and go to serious extremes to destroy his life. TV deals crashed, Dropped from his podcast network,his reddit got hijacked, He even left his own show for a while. Just in case you are wondering, the host Mike is an asshole IRL, but not the monster people make him sound like (think guy with kinda a short temper who will make snarky comments and be kind of a dick). This shit is all over the place.
I understand why the dude left Patreon.
So here is what I am seeing with Dax, less engagement, less downloads, less extras available, Dax hiding who donates what amount at what tier (he used to not do this), every fan magically swapping monthly payments at almost the same time, an increase in patrons despite this (if I am not mistaken his Patrons are at where when he talked about Lisbyn download numbers what he was getting in weekly downloads Approx 5k current Patrons at 4412) and Dax admitting on the show where he talked about Mundane Matt that there is not any growth.
What is the statistical odds roughly 88% of your listeners giving you money? How likely is it for a devoted fanbase to consistently give less money per patron over time? How likely is it all your fans magically swap when they pay and when they take a break for over 2 years?
As I said I might be wrong. Lord knows some other examples in top podcasts look fucking strange (this is why I chose specific successful podcasts people have heard of). However it looks like an artificial floor. When did that suspected artificial floor kick in? Around November/December 2018
What even happened at that time?
Around when Sargon got banned. What is strange is the graph doesn't reflect the below $20k Dip that we have seen confirmed on Dax's Reddit (I have to find my screen in an earlier post)
I know people think this idea is crazy cause Maddox the retard suggested it once.
I know certain people think I am crazy for still poking at this. This after all is just a theory, and I definitely embrace legit pointing out of flaws of my theory.
But does anyone honestly think this looks normal especially since Dax's popularity amongst his own fan base keeps dipping?
This is total earnings on Patreon the whole time.
We see a massive dip October 30th. What happened then?
Not much. Dax got banned on Twitter.
Suddenly spikes to $24k and he gets a massive influx of 417 new patrons. What happened between then to cause such a big upswing in not only Patrons but the dollar amount Patreons give?
The Lolsuit
Makes sense. Gradual loss of interest from the fanbase, Maddox does the stupidest thing he ever did, internet corrects the perceived wrong
So here is what weirds me out and the trend that we see on Grapheon. Past that point we see a new trend where Dax keeps growing in Patreons (again, despite his engagement going down, downloads going down, and admission that the podcast is not growing). That yellow line (patrons) also almost stays perfectly fixed along side ups and downs with earnings, in fact we see an increase in the gap.
I have heard this explained as fans are alternating months when they pay. This may be true, but all at once? That's a hell of a coincidence.
So what do other successful podcasts look like when they ascend?
lines stay pretty close, infact it looks like people end up giving more money over time. I can't vouch for the legitimacy of Chapo Trap Houses numbers, so lets go to other examples
Cum Town as far as I know are all solid dudes, but again I cannot vouch for them as I don't listen. However, We see a similar trend, Patrons give more money over time.
Okay, I can vouch for Last Podcast on the Left. They are very popular, have a spotify exclusive deal, have an adult swim spin off show, consistently in the top podcasts. While this one definitely fluctuates we see the data support a correlation between Patrons and earnings and it is a pretty tight one. I don't wanna get an excel spread sheet out but if someone wants to do an r value it should give a correlation percentage.
So what does massive fuckery look like?
I want to emphasize sword and scale is not the ones doing the fuckery here. If you haven't looked into it the host Mike has had people fuck with him hard for a VERY long time and go to serious extremes to destroy his life. TV deals crashed, Dropped from his podcast network,his reddit got hijacked, He even left his own show for a while. Just in case you are wondering, the host Mike is an asshole IRL, but not the monster people make him sound like (think guy with kinda a short temper who will make snarky comments and be kind of a dick). This shit is all over the place.
I understand why the dude left Patreon.
So here is what I am seeing with Dax, less engagement, less downloads, less extras available, Dax hiding who donates what amount at what tier (he used to not do this), every fan magically swapping monthly payments at almost the same time, an increase in patrons despite this (if I am not mistaken his Patrons are at where when he talked about Lisbyn download numbers what he was getting in weekly downloads Approx 5k current Patrons at 4412) and Dax admitting on the show where he talked about Mundane Matt that there is not any growth.
What is the statistical odds roughly 88% of your listeners giving you money? How likely is it for a devoted fanbase to consistently give less money per patron over time? How likely is it all your fans magically swap when they pay and when they take a break for over 2 years?
As I said I might be wrong. Lord knows some other examples in top podcasts look fucking strange (this is why I chose specific successful podcasts people have heard of). However it looks like an artificial floor. When did that suspected artificial floor kick in? Around November/December 2018
What even happened at that time?
Around when Sargon got banned. What is strange is the graph doesn't reflect the below $20k Dip that we have seen confirmed on Dax's Reddit (I have to find my screen in an earlier post)
I know people think this idea is crazy cause Maddox the retard suggested it once.
I know certain people think I am crazy for still poking at this. This after all is just a theory, and I definitely embrace legit pointing out of flaws of my theory.
But does anyone honestly think this looks normal especially since Dax's popularity amongst his own fan base keeps dipping?
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I dont personally think theres any fuckery going on, but it's always possible. my personal theory is that at the time of the lolsuit and before, he had several patrons who gave him pretty sizable contributions, out of either loyalty or fixing a perceived injustice. He does have a decent amount of old time fans who're middle aged and probably make decent enough money to give him a sizable donation (think guys like Reverend Scott), but I think the reason for the disparity is that a lot of older fans dropped off, his trickle of new fans isnt great, and those fans he does have are maladjusted speeds who make very little money and think throwing minimal amounts make them noticed by Daddy Dax.
TL;DR= Daxs new fanbase are young simps with little income and lots of autism, while the number of older, wealthier fans stagnated and those that stayed either stopped increasing their contributions or forgot to cancel their donations.
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It's important to note that Graphtreon can skip values of interest between short time intervals (however drastic) and sometimes even be flatout wrong.
My own Graphtreon reports showed similar if not even more alarming dips when my campaign is often very consistent with little changes if any. A significant occurrence happened last year around the time of a new month, which is often when all these slow heart-rate zigzags happen, which I should explain prior to recounting my specific event. Those imbalances occur simply because the start of a month is when the billing time occurs. Some people obviously wish not to subscribe for future months and they want to reap their benefits for the month they have been subscribed, so they wait until the last possible day to do it (there is no need for that, Patreon still allows people access for the entire duration of the month). But a factor more significant than that is that the public amount of dosh and patrons belonging to a Patreon campaign is immediately updated by Patreon to reflect to credit card declines, which happens with more individual patrons than you'd assume. A lot of times, patrons have their credit card limits maxed out or have their internet purchase limit maxed out at the time of the monthly billing, so it doesn't go through. The public figure shown on the Patreon page has that amount of pledge deducted almost immediately. Such patrons often manually fix that issue in the middle of the month - but the way Graphtreon seems to assess data, especially for the long-term graphs like "1 Year" and "All Time" only seems to consider the value shown in the page at the end of each individual month, reported only once or perhaps twice a month.
Essentially, this means a lot of real dips or peaks occurring in the middle of the month could often be skipped, and credit card decline related dips might be shown instead to portray incorrect graphs and figures, as the latter happens mostly around the time of Graphtreon's interest in pulling in data.
My personal error was when Patreon, for some reason, decided to manually "fix" something about my public fund counter where they accidentally made it so the declined credit card patrons would be deducted TWICE, creating a massive dip that still shows to this day. My income was the same that month but if you look at Graphtreon, it shows that I took a massive blow.
LSS only trust Graphtreon for long-time slopes as little spikes can be basic errors in reporting, and could be caused by either Graphtreon or Patreon themselves. I'm afraid I don't think this data really proves anything other than that Dick's campaign is actually growing.
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Yes. It looks normal if you consider that the portion of his fanbase that gives him money is slowly cycling from boomers over to weirdo incel types.
It looks like you're tilting at a windmill.
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The donations swapping from higher ammounts to more lower amount people makes sense, but I need to dig more. It's hard for me to actually analyze a lot of this with so much info hidden. I am kinda autisticly doomed to keep looking at this because I keep finding stuff that looks weird to me. It's why I keep emphasizing I could be wrong and it's theory, just cause something looks strange doesn't mean it is.
You may be right. As I said, this could all be nothing. I am only basing this off of strange inverse relationships that should not make sense. An inner circle source got in touch with someone I knew. As far as they knew everything seemed normal and they dropped Dax's NP2 brain storming board as proof.
They did give a final amount for how much Sargon's patreon stunt around January cost Dax and it was more than I thought: $7k
Looking at the actual data again I am incorrect. Grapheon is still incorrect as it shows the dip only being around $5k, but the peak around this time is $25k and the reddit post where Dax confirms the drop is around $18k. The $7k loss is not as suspicious as I thought originally hearing it, I just wasn't piecing it together the right way.
I will probably keep poking at this more (Yeah, I know it's autistic), and as I have said repeatedly it may be absolutely nothing. What will be a smoking gun for me is if that number of patrons starts exceeding his number of listeners.
As is now, it's getting into highly unusual (approx 88% of audience giving money is insanely high, especially if you are selling less and less stuff) but still probable territory.
I appreciate feed back. I talk about the weird Patreon stuff not to convince people the Patreon is a lie, but more of a think tank type deal knowing full well I may be the idiot here.
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Thanks for the info. You mind posting your patreon link? I trust your reporting on Patreon stuff as a sample of what Patreon shows vs. what people receive.
The Patreon stuff keeps messing with me because as I shown in a previous post, we're seeing lower social engagement, lower numbers in downloads/podcast ranks, yet more patrons and more money. Even TDS fans would agree lolsuit days were peak interest and viewership.
I am mostly trying to avoid prejudice have me cherry pick data on this claim rather than the data leading me to my hypothesis.
A similar situation like this is what sparked me looking into the patreon. I had a card that was lost, forgot to cancel my patreon, and when I checked patreon saw it still showed me as a "patron" of Dick Masterson despite that I hadn't given him money for months and had just forgot to cancel that payment.
However it seems like an opposite effect to my theory. You had credit card decline and showed a bigger loss than what you recieved.
My assumption was if it showed me as an active Patron than it would still show the Patron amount and Patron despite no money being received.
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I found your Patreon @Miss Phase and gave it a look over
First of all, congrats on over $1k. Looks like quitting TDS worked out better for you.
What fascinates me about this is it appears higher donating smaller amounts at first glance, but upon closer inspection you seem to keep the average of between $4 & $5 per patron (which lines up with the different tiers).
I believe that was the weird up close dip you were referring to that is incorrectly reflected.
On viewing your Patreon I noticed that I can't see who is donating what. I don't believe you are hiding this intentionally so I believe I am incorrect about Dax hiding who is giving what and instead it is a Patreon interface change.
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Well, the voicemails have kinda gone downhill these days, what with nearly every single one being some guy pretending to throw a fit over some menial thing because that's all Dick plays anymore. Though here's a timestamp for you: Episode 214, 2:22:30, a caller calls in screaming about his own virgin rage.
and then a little later a caller adamantly says they're not taking down Mt. Rushmore and Dick talks about how he hopes it gets destroyed
Come on, Dick, it's all South Dakota has, cut them some slack
and then a little later a caller adamantly says they're not taking down Mt. Rushmore and Dick talks about how he hopes it gets destroyed
Come on, Dick, it's all South Dakota has, cut them some slack
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Isn't South Dakota also famous for being one of those states where the people in it eat a shitload?
Like, BBQ and stuff.
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Wouldn't surprise me. The fact that Mt. Rushmore State Park is there is the only, and I mean only thing I know about South Dakota.
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There's this website about it.
For some reason I was thinking it was famous for BBQ, doesn't seem to be the case. The only other notable thing is that north and south dakota had a kansas-esque split
What a shithole.
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New Simp Show. I fucking love these.