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"We're shocked that Joe Rogan would do this" - people who watched Joe Rogan do this to everyone else (www.axios.com)

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A feud on Twitter highlights the perils of engaging on the platform and a growing tension among researchers and medical professionals.

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[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus christ what an utterly toxic community JRE is. I always knew it, what with the way the guy enthusiastically platforms the likes of Peterson, but still, yuck.

[–] Bucket_of_Truth@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

There's definitely a divide in his fans. There are the old Opie & Anthony people who mostly just listened for comedy. The pandemic changed a lot, Rogan started with his vaccine stuff and that attracted a lot of MAGA types.

Comedy in general has taken a right-wing shift. During the COVID lockdowns touring comedians could only perform in areas that didn't have extreme restrictions, now comedians like Bill Burr and Tom Segura are incredibly popular with conservatives. I saw Bill a couple of years ago and he was making jokes about about conservatives and a large section of the crowd was unironically agreeing with his dumb caricatures.