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- Aug 28, 2019
Podcasts seem to have their own version of Network Decay/Channel Drift.Speaking of trans-catering podcasts:
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My Brother, My Brother and Me fans are very mad that an advertiser has released a Harry Potter collection.
Step 1. Create podcast
Step 2. Podcast attracts a bunch of people, some of those people are loud and rabid
Step 3. Start catering to the most visible and/or profitable parts of your audience
Step 4. Start creating content specifically for that group
Step 5. Podcast slowly becomes something it wasn't in the beginning
We saw it happen with things like Welcome to Night Vale and other fiction podcasts, but it's definitely happened with MBMBAM. This is what happens when you start off as the "chill, accepting, nerdy dudes", eventually you become the physical embodiment of the woke egregore. This is happening with another podcast I like as well. They used to be a mix of the paranormal/occult/conspiracies and true crime, but now they're more solidly "True Crime Podcast" with only the occasional nod to the fun shit in their grab bag episodes. In one of the most recent episodes one of the hosts let slip that another host had explicitly told him before recording started that he wasn't to bring up the topic of a certain kind of magic nor was he supposed to go on a rant about it. Which sucks, because those rants were one of the things that originally got me into the show in the first place.