Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/waEShXUjejs
I don’t wanna sound weird/racist, but the “contemporary true crime podcast” genre emanates a sinister MSNBC liberal whiteness I can’t properly articulate. Is this off-base?
The media amplifies and sensationalizes random violence, creating a continuous stream of small and impersonal traumas in its largely suburbanite audience. They understand their complicity in the violence on a subconscious level, but cognitive dissonance prevents them from accepting this on a conscious level. This creates a feedback loop where they repeatedly seek out content to retraumatize themselves in an effort to regain control of their place in these narratives.
But yeah it’s mostly some white people shit.
yeah, i’ve never met any true crime fan who wasnt a complete freak in some way (also never met one who wasnt a white upper middle class person)
its scary stories to tell in the dark but for upper middle class white libs who are (comparatively) alienated from violence by their own money
That may be generally true, but in my experience it is mostly women (not all ‘white’) who listen to it. I think it is a way of dealing with the the anxiety of being a woman in a world that makes them unsafe.
The podcasts don’t give safety tips, or offer self defense courses or practical advice. They revel in salacious drama and personal details of murder on a libidinal level. Let’s stop with this bullshit myth that true crime is “to protect oneself from murder”. It’s entertainment and titillation not serious defensive studies let’s be real.
I revel in violence too sometimes in my entertainment, in video games and action movies. But I don’t use real “true” violence to get off, I use fake and fictional violence at least
Yeah, one of the hosts of LPOTL also just got sacked for being a weird abusive mess. Time for a true crime podcast about true crime podcasts.
well yeah that’s because they’re referencing the horror movie instead of politics
Marcus has said some pretty based shit before and Henry’s been on Chapo so I hold out hope
Marcus’s anticommunist statements a year or two back were likely my final straw. He was talking about doing an episode on Mai Lai shortly after and I didn’t want to be there for it. The noticable drop in quality preceding that and the sycophantic fanbase was also a factor, in addition to the overall sleezy nature of true crime.
He also had the least input on that show and was in no way funny. I honestly do not know what he actually brought to the team.
The more recent episodes I bothered to listen to it is clear that Marcus and the funny one were sick of his shit and openly mocked him for his stupid takes and attempts to be funny
I listen to them but have no social media presence can you link me to something that explains what happened with Ben i have only what was said on the show
Rolling Stone article
I haven’t listened to LPOTL in about five years, and I was only really a listener for a two year period starting in 2013, but I remember that Kissel hosted a political show. Just looked it up, and he was still hosting it as of September of this year, with almost 750 episodes. I listened to two episodes, probably in 2014, and based on my hazy memory of that I’d call him a bizzaro left-libertarian type.
What I’m saying is, this isn’t a surprise.
Also I distinctly remember there was an early episode where they made a big deal out of them being a podcast with no corporate backing, and then sometime after I’d stopped listening I learned they made a deal to host their show exclusively on Spotify.
What is the next influencer face going to be for thumbnail SEO purposes? Surely the face can’t last forever
Apparently open mouth thumbnails aren’t popular with gen z, it’s closed mouth smiles or smirks or whatever now
Once again proving the most ethical podcast has always been Cumtown
