rant · moment 7 of 18
Why Hollywood Hates Podcasters (and the Rogan Vaccine Controversy)
from #284 - Prozac Play-Doh | The Tim Dillon Show · #284
10 min
A long rant on why legacy Hollywood and comedians fear and resent independent podcasters like Rogan and himself, tying in the controversy over Rogan's COVID/vaccine comments and the industry's fear of irrelevance.
- Tim on crypto and NFTs: if they let creators build careers outside a corrupt system, that's good; if it's a pump-and-dump scheme, that's good too.
- Joe Rogan taking heat for vaccine comments, but the real reason Hollywood hates internet creators is fear.
- Everyone in Hollywood lives in fear of losing their job, becoming irrelevant, and losing the Twitter mob's approval.
- Hollywood money gets turned on and off like a faucet—when it's on, there are mansions, red carpets, and New York Times profiles fawning over you.
- The legacy media industry's ability to decide who matters has waned; podcasters and internet creators now have authentic voices that actual people want to listen to.
- New people on the internet have views more aligned with mainstream America than most Hollywood actors, who were scripted and never learned to think for themselves.
- The old Hollywood system is dying and angry about it because there's not enough seats at the table and entertainment is no longer a controlled business.
- Rogan's real sin is having conversations with people who question vaccine policy—not pushing anti-vax lunacy, just exploring reasonable debate about effectiveness.
- If forced to compete in a world where they themselves need to have authentic thoughts and opinions, Hollywood actors would fail miserably because they're characters, not real people.
- Hollywood comics can't stand that people now have options and don't need to buy tickets or listen to them no matter how many puff pieces run about them.
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