Mildly Interesting

"Mildly interesting" is not very close to my reaction to this at all, rather something closer to "particularly concerning"

Before online influencers, it was AM radio.

Social media was a mistake.

Feels weird to include Noah and Carlson but not include Jon Stuart, Stephen Colbert, or John Oliver.

ThE LeFt cOntRols The nArAtiVe

Asmongold...you have got to be shitting me. imagine getting your "news" from a guy that used a dead rat as an alarm clock, wipes the blood from his gums on his bedroom wall, used to routinely eat snacks that had maggots in them, and treats drinking water like it's poison.

A guy who could barely play WoW and left his main account on twitch because making money from viewers on that was "too stressful" proceeds to start an alt channel where he nows grifts the right for money.

Lying is easy and takes less time. Real news requires going places, interviewing people, fact checking, and presenting it in a professional manner.

It's no wonder the right wing media ecosystem is bigger.

Would be interesting to see a funding source overlay on this

I find it interesting - and a little concerning - that there are so many more right-leaning voices than left. I have to ask a simple question - why has the left not produced more strident voices and more people able to make popular content?

Is this graph supposed to be useful in any way? It excludes a huge number of voices from the left and also have a bunch of circles without names and just some random 1.1m or 2m NR on them but without any indication of who they represent more than their color.

They get funding, that much is obvious. It was the same story with the Nazis who got massive support from obvious sources.

Not sure I trust the methodology here. I would've expected shows like The Ezra Klein Show or Pod Save America to be fairly big on the left here (and on the Apple Podcast charts, TEKS is ahead in rank of some that are listed here, PSA not far behind).

The description of the methodology is not very clear. For example, it's unclear what they consider a "show", what their search strategy was to arrive at their initial list of shows, and how the raters determined whether a show was leaning left or right (i.e., some of this is described but not in a way that would make it reproducible, and there seems to be some gut feel involved). The exclusion of shows produced by TV stations makes sense but excludes more left- than rightwing sources.

I don't doubt that right-wing shows have the upper hand in the non-traditional media market and agree this is a problem, but this project may be exaggerating the difference a bit.

Reagan was President when I was a kid. America is right-wing as Hell and always has been.

Wow. How are Colbert and John Oliver not on that graphic? Meanwhile, I don't think I've ever watched more than three or four YouTube clips of Trevor Noah.

Oh god, am I old?

Also, it sucks that Brand's a right-winger. There was a time when I thought his heart was somewhat in the right place even if the execution was... questionable.

The young turks turned far right over night once Harris lost.

To those asking about the imbalance— it’s money. Just like older forms of media (print, radio, tv) there’s much deeper pockets for right-wing “funding” than on the left. And many left leaning outlets/personalities will turn down cash flows that might limit their control over their content. Follow the money. Always.

TYT is left? Excuse the fuck out of me? Lmfao last I heard TYT was russia funded

So many masterdebaters

Seeing TYT "left-leaning" saddens me. If they were left-leaning, they are not anymore.

Lotta fucking idiots on that chart.

Anger and outrage sell, and the shows that lean more to the right are the ones that draw most heavily on those two emotions.

We need more outrage on the left, but it's harder to come by because it frightens the rich who own all media companies.

The left has a communication problem, all around the world. Right/conservative types seem very good at breaking their ideas down to very simple messages, and progressive types just don't seem to be able to communicate in that way.

It is important to mind the small text, showing where the data came from. Subscribers and followers on YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, Twitch, Kick, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

This is me. I get my news from Lemmy, a dude in New Z̶e̶e̶l̶a̶n̶d̶ Zealand , and a gardener in Oregon.

Sometimes a lady in Florida that owns a shed.

Right leaning folks LOVE to have their views validated. Left leaning folks will listen but don't constantly need validation. Easy.

Fun fact:

The Right owns online discussion because the left doesn't support itself or really even engage meaningfully in significant numbers

So when Right posts, they only get flack from some left

When Left posts, they get flack from ALL right AND MOST of the left as well

Since most sites use popularity voting for visibility, this means in every case this gives the right significant more reach

Stop tearing down your leftist fellows, you won't tho

I will never understand how anyone can listen to Theo Von or Lex Fridman without losing thousands of brain cells per second.

Hm, "newspaper" vs "online influencers". Can't newspapers be called "offline influencers"? This is how propaganda works, folks. Or are newspapers all online now too?

This would be more representative as a venn diagram because a lot of those numbers overlap.