I'm curious what people here think. I'm sure everyone here has seen the salt about Joe Rogan and how Kamala should have gone on his podcast (her team kept her off so she wouldn't show off how retarded she is to even more people) or how the left needs its "own Joe Rogan" (not possible because they would cancel it the minute it deviated from leftist orthodoxy). A lot of that is the left blaming everyone but themselves like they do every time they lose an election, but I kind of wonder if there's something to the theory. I don't listen to Rogan, but my understanding of his podcast is that politics isn't really the main focus and his listening base contains a lot of largely apolitical young men who are drawn it him because he talks about things they're interested in and doesn't shit on them like the legacy media does. If I'm a Joe Rogan listener who's not plugged into political stuff and I see Trump do a 3 hour interview for the podcast and see Kamala make excuses not to do the same, that's gonna leave me with a favorable impression towards Trump and make me more likely to vote for him. Since Rogan has 50 million listeners even a tiny percentage of them being moved from Kamala to Trump or not voting to Trump could move the needle.
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Being honest, I think it shifted the election a few decimal points more towards Trump. Easily missed but grand scheme still VERY important.
But the biggest thing going on Rogan and other alt media did was felt culturally before and after the election:
It broke mainstream hegemony, the fact 1 podcast with 1 guy in his little studio eclipsed EVERYTHING the mainstream did with Trump in terms of views really hit home how not required they were in today's society.
It broke their narrative as Trump and Vance came off as human and in touch with regular people from those podcasts, not Hitler/Satan like the media tried to always claim. It hurt the Democrats not just in it showed how hollow their lies were but also showed how much of a coward they all were by not appearing on anything like Rogan.
So election impact, can be missed but cultural impact, very big.
I'd say Kackles refusing an interview was a bigger factor than Trump doing an interview. And Rogan even admitted he agreed to leave certain topics "off the table" and her team still wouldn't agree to do the interview in his studio.
Before these long-form 'everyman' podcasts there wasn't really anything you could show to somebody who thought Trump was a dozen-adjective literally Hitler. Clips, rallies - nothing convincing and they'd only see the most distorted excerpts anyway.
But after the podcast tour you have this singular thing you can point to, Rogan or Theo Von or another, where he's personable and asked honest questions normal people have, with no deceptive editing, where you can say go watch this and it'll change your mind about Trump.
It's a metaphorical pin you can point to and say "oh you don't think you're a bubble? well then this pin can't hurt you". They'll either have their bubble popped or retreat in fear from it.