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I generally like WTYP but it's not much different than most other media that I consume in that I know there's sometimes gulfs between my opinions and beliefs and those of the people doing the thing and there's really no reasonable way for me to bridge that as an audience member so sometimes I just gotta take breaks. It's at least not openly fascistic (lol most true crime podcasts), nor excessively stupid (lol mystery podcasts of any kind), but every now and then someone will say something like 'thankfully no one caught Covid at the live event we were Safe and Responsible with our live event at the bar' and immediately people have to start piping up that there absolutely was an outbreak at the live event. Or, yeah, one of the hosts will be having a bad day and, forgetting that they have a tiny little soapbox with disproportionate reach, start dropping 'KYS' on some rando. It's at least usually 'very online but relatively normal people fuckups' and not, say, having a military-themed podcast where you repeatedly go off on rambling diatribes about how communism is worse than nazism, or having a true crime podcast where you refer to all suspicious characters as 'perps'. Also I have yet to hear a WTYP caster go off on a tangent bitching about mask-wearing now that 'covid is over' or start dropping actual racial slurs as a 'joke' while talking about their career as a mall-cop, so even the bad moments probably haven't even hit, like, top twenty in 'content creator disappointments' for me. Oh, and at least so far as I know no credible accusations of sexual assault, which seems to be some kind of loving plague among people who talk for a living. WTYP being a 'shoot the poo poo' show does mean that it maybe isn't as cool or informative as it sometimes might be, but whatever, there's other sources for that. I loving draw porn for a living, seems like throwing stones in a glass house to complain about someone managing a decent income riffing on dumb bullshit with their friends. Capitalism is the problem there, not the horse viscera jokes. I also don't have a twitter account, so maybe I've just dodged the worst of it lol E: I should take care to point out that getting into Very Online fights and saying stupid poo poo about it is absolutely not good or agreeable and it's pretty loving reasonable to draw a line there, but I guess at this point I'm so used to everything being so insufferably stupid and intentionally malicious that content created by people at least half-heartedly trying not to be openly evil is good enough to get me through the workday. Relatedly, never look up anything about any musician who has ever lived, you will be very unhappy more than half the time Shady Amish Terror has issued a correction as of 00:36 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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achillesforever6 posted:I think the episode I wish they would redo is the 1st one because they didn't talk enough about Mothman The guests always seem like the most fraught element of any of these podcasts. Many of them are very cool subject matter experts and I love to hear their perspective. Sometimes they're uhhhh yeah. WTYP has had a couple of rabidly anti-communist guests, which is about the worst that has gotten from them, I think; I don't see a problem with taking an anti-statist stance, but it seems like some of Liam's buds in particular are not really anti-state so much as propagandized to gently caress about the cold war. Granted, if that's your worst 'leftist firing circle' crime, it's definitely possible to do worse. It feels like Trashfuture and that whole orbit has it so much worse because they move in 'respectable journalism circles', so occasionally their guests aren't even notionally progressive, they're just assholes who move in professional circles of finance or politics, which it turns out is an incredibly difficult kind of person to listen to for light podcasting. Like, the worst part of Behind the Bastards was usually the guests. A lot of them were cool people and fun to listen to, but a whole bunch were also insufferably lib-brained to the point of derailing episodes and I eventually got tired of trying to discern which guests were going to start getting under my skin while also listening to a journalist describe Super Hitler 3. B33rChiller posted:This has me curious. How does one make enough to support one's self drawing porn without a Twitter account? 
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