David Chen
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Tik Tok, Cultural Appropriation, and Popular Patreon Pages (with Joanna Robinson)
🕑 Added 2021-04-09 13:01:03 +0000 UTCJoanna and David discuss what happened when Addison Rae went on The Tonight Show, the downside of crediting Tik Toks, and also our complicated thoughts on successful Patreon pages.
Links:
- Jimmy Fallon addresses Addison Rae controversy
- How "On fleek" went from Vine to Denny's
- Rian Johnson will make a lot of money from Knives Out
Comments
David Chen
Painful
Stephen David Miller
Since it came up, and I am sadly familiar: C*mtown is effectively Stern with vaguely left wing undertones. It's what would happen if you removed every substantive political aspect of Chapo and 10x'ed the dirtbag aesthetic -- overtly offensive jokes cloaked in just enough irony to ward off the criticism they 100% deserve. I gave the free version a try for a few episodes (the hosts had guested on other shows I listened to) and eventually had to delete it from my feeds. Not because some base part of me didn't get the appeal, but because I felt myself actively becoming a worse person with every joke I let slide... (In other words, yes, it's VERY depressing that they make so much money on Patreon)
