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- Oct 27, 2015
Greg thinks that Ethan Ralph is on "the rise" while Sargon is declining
Roughly 01:19:15
Greg: "Tell us more about Sargon, I think he's a fascinating figure and it seems like he's increasingly irrelevant and you're increasing relevant, and I wonder what's the difference."
Let's be honest Ethan Ralph and Sargon are both on the decline unless you prefer them in Dumpster fire mode instead of "their prime"
Ethan Ralph has 24k followers on DLive.
Sargon has 945k followers on his main channel. 379k on his Akkad Daily channel. 158k on his Sargon of Akkad Live channel. 419k on his Thinkery channel.
These two players are not even in the same ballpark.
Ralph has hit rock bottom so many times and bounced back up to his normal level it isn't even funny. Drugs, felonies, assaulting cops, revenge porn, being too drunk & passed out to do his show. He is just the juggernaut of the bottom. He provides good drama & usually a good show. People who watch him know all of this stuff & just don't care. So nobody can take his viewers away from him.
Sargon is well Sargon. He gained popularity talking about SJWs when few other people were tackling the issue. Now there are many others. And many that are much better. I'll agree that Sargon spends way to much time huffing his own farts, and is at best a poor man's intellectual. Mid-wittery at its finest.
But by the same token, Sargon has down well enough that he has his own studio & staff of employees. Whatever he is doing, it is still working extremely well and does more than well enough to pay the bills.
The channels still exist. But doing a half-private paid & half free is a smart play. It works well for the big players like Joe Rogan. And it is his best chance to avoid being killed off in one fell swoop from Youtube. He can keep his spicier videos for his paying customers. This is a good play by him if he can actually get the right people to do the work (which should not be all that hard).Not only did he nuke his channels, he set up a new website to host his content which didn't work properly upon launch. He's trying to fix it right now, and hasn't offered any refunds for his fans who paid for membership.
As far as refunds go, he is telling people that paid, that he will credit their subscriptions to add an additional week or two or for however long it is down. (Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdLj5MEAndk). If someone is willing to pay to listen to him, then I don't think they will care if it is delayed a few weeks. 350 people have prepaid.