Rogan is one of a very small handful of content creators who could have easily jump-started a legitimate alternative video platform to compete with YouTube. Instead, he took the ticket.
My guess is he decided he couldn’t weather the inevitable storm of accusations of anti-Semitism, which come part and parcel with any attempt to break the media monopoly.
It's interesting how many personalities Rogan introduced me to over the years on YT that I would never know otherwise.
And how that all stopped when he disappeared behind the Spotify wall and I never followed.
I wonder what if anything has replaced Rogan as the incubator for myself and others to be introduced to new ideas and non-MSM personalities.
He got to have guests like Robert Malone on Spotify, which would have never flown on Youtube.
I don't begrudge Rogan for going to Spotify to get paid.
But for me, it was the end of an era.
Just the fact that viewing his podcast involved
was enough to get me to break the habit.
At one point, I went back and started at Episode #1 with Redban and the snowflake effects on Justin.TV and watched several hundred in sequence.
His clips are still on YT though I'm sure lots off people watch those.
I still do see his clips on YT.
But it's more akin to seeing what Rogan's up to rather than watching a full episode and leaning something new or getting to know someone.
I haven't watched a full episode since he left YT.
At least personally, his move to Spotify made him much less culturally relevant even if he's ungodly richer.
I wonder if he considered that.
Rogan is one of a very small handful of content creators who could have easily jump-started a legitimate alternative video platform to compete with YouTube. Instead, he took the ticket.
My guess is he decided he couldn’t weather the inevitable storm of accusations of anti-Semitism, which come part and parcel with any attempt to break the media monopoly.