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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I think people had made up their minds already, as it was far too close to election day to really heavily swing the election.
But it did throw mud in the face of the traditional media who loathe the fact that a guy with a little studio and a couple of microphones got to sit with the former president and president elect, and ask them questions they did not pre approve.
And that made Trump and the VP elect Vance look very personable and human. And I think that's what upsets them the most.
If you just go where the people are turning their attention to, instead of the mainstream media who are basically controlled assets at this point, through either money or ads, or both, that they can no longer hold the reigns of the conversation in a way that doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth as you watch.
You see someone who is usually a pretty normal talking head turn into a raging asshole if they ask badgering questions, or come across as insufferable, which means they are either really good at blending in, or love being horrible and they have a very carefully crafted mask, and are itching to fully drop it.
As was pointed out by The_Mad_Draklor when Musk bought Twitter, that really ticked them off. They lost their censorship edge that they were counting on. They still have the zuck, but that can only do so much.
Who still uses anything Meta produces? Facebook is known as "that platform your aging Boomer parents use", and Oculus is an expensive, faddy toy people with spare bedrooms play with.
I think some young-ish moms still use FB because it's more visual than X with the focus more on personal photos.
The women under 40 with kids I know use FB to post curated pics of their own crotch goblins for clout and to creep on the personal lives of their competitors that they mostly know as acquaintances.
I personally don't know any normies that unsolicitedly admit to using X. It's all Reddit, YT and FB.