If there isn’t a left leaning lib like Hasan, there will be the amount of people who watch him looking for something else to watch, and 9/10 other options are significantly to the right of Hasan. If he didn’t exist there is no reason to assume some other person with the same politics as him would be attracting that audience, it makes more sense that they would be scattered about to whoever exists now, and landing on someone further to the right. If you can explain how this wouldn’t be the case id consider it but just saying it isn’t how it works isn’t convincing
Or they would simply stop consuming on that platform or find an alternative source, or someone else would fill the market gap. This shit is clearly profitable and prevelant. It’s not like Chapo ever stopped making money, even when Bernie stopped being a thing.
Someone would want to make money in that gap.
Edit: Unless you presuppose that watching streamers is literally an addiction, where addicts will go to less that premium sources to consume, which isn’t a terrible model, but if that is the model for online ideological discourse we are already well and truly fucked.
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If there isn’t a left leaning lib like Hasan, there will be the amount of people who watch him looking for something else to watch, and 9/10 other options are significantly to the right of Hasan. If he didn’t exist there is no reason to assume some other person with the same politics as him would be attracting that audience, it makes more sense that they would be scattered about to whoever exists now, and landing on someone further to the right. If you can explain how this wouldn’t be the case id consider it but just saying it isn’t how it works isn’t convincing
Or they would simply stop consuming on that platform or find an alternative source, or someone else would fill the market gap. This shit is clearly profitable and prevelant. It’s not like Chapo ever stopped making money, even when Bernie stopped being a thing.
Someone would want to make money in that gap.
Edit: Unless you presuppose that watching streamers is literally an addiction, where addicts will go to less that premium sources to consume, which isn’t a terrible model, but if that is the model for online ideological discourse we are already well and truly fucked.