Story is very fresh right now with several outlets blowing it up as a 'we won!' moment and AOC calling for his arrest for incitement or some shit.
He needs to do a Rubin or something similar as he was the one thing that made people even watch fox sometimes because of his anaylsis. I sense Fox's viewing figures are going to dive again...
Counterpoint: Stephan Molyneux had a million subscriber youtube channel and dropped into obscurity after he was banned.
Of course Tucker is in a better position than Molyneux, but my point is that it's not always all sunshine and roses when goes (or are forced to go) independent.
There’s definitely a critical mass below which a political commentator cannot survive without the big platforms (YouTube or a TV network). Molyneux was below the threshold.
One scary implication of this face is that it’s in the best interests of the leftist establishment to crush newcomers before they reach the threshold. I’m sure they’ve figured this one. I wonder how many great people were spotted by the algorithm as having a sharp upward trajectory and preemptively banned and the rest of us never know they existed.
Yeah I used to watch this guy's channel who was like a "Styx but right-wing and more normal looking" in terms of content and presentation. I think he got to 1000 subs before he ducked out because he was taking some job adjacent to academia and couldn't have what he was saying associated with his face and work in that field.
Then on the other side you have chucke2009 who had this welding channel with a million subs and a bunch of corporate sponsorships, and aside from a few minor hints at being a Trump supporting normiecon was completely apolitical until his last video where he went full-on "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" and nuked his channel. Half the comments on that video before it went down were "wait, what? I thought this was a welding channel" and the other half were "based!". It was a sight to behold.
Kinda wish guys like the latter would use their sponsorships to covertly fund patronage networks so guys like the former don't have to depend on the System to eat, but we're some years from that happening.