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[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't wanna sound weird/racist, but the "contemporary true crime podcast" genre emanates a sinister MSNBC liberal whiteness I can't properly articulate. Is this off-base?

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

Only good true crime podcast is trueanon

[-] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

You have to subvert the genre to make something that isn't ghoulish. In the same vein, I'd say Murderville is alright because the "true crime" in question is a negligent or deliberate wrongful conviction rather than the murder they're convicted of

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

because it focuses on bourgeois/systemic crimes

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

True crime podcasts are crime porn for suburbanites.

[-] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

The media amplifies and sensationalizes random violence, creating a continuous stream of small and impersonal traumas in its largely suburbanite audience. They understand their complicity in the violence on a subconscious level, but cognitive dissonance prevents them from accepting this on a conscious level. This creates a feedback loop where they repeatedly seek out content to retraumatize themselves in an effort to regain control of their place in these narratives.

But yeah it's mostly some white people shit.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

No when I think "true crime podcast listener" I think "white woman with no personality"

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

not at all. in fact i think i am fully justified in saying that the average true crime podcast is EXACTLY like The Turner Diaries for white women.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup (you are right)

[-] RION@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago
[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Red handed are just awful. I've listened to enough of it to know.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

Yeah, one of the hosts of LPOTL also just got sacked for being a weird abusive mess. Time for a true crime podcast about true crime podcasts.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

> Last Podcast on the Left
> They're not on the left at all

[-] wild_dog@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

well yeah that's because they're referencing the horror movie instead of politics

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

wtf is a movie. is that that thing that zizek hates.

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[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

He also had the least input on that show and was in no way funny. I honestly do not know what he actually brought to the team.

The more recent episodes I bothered to listen to it is clear that Marcus and the funny one were sick of his shit and openly mocked him for his stupid takes and attempts to be funny

[-] GhostofLeninsGhost@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

The funny one is Henry.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that was always a red flag for me. That an his mind-numbingly stupid takes on everything.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Isn't that the one that tried to run for office in NYC?

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Came in 6th for a 3 way race

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[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I haven't listened to LPOTL in about five years, and I was only really a listener for a two year period starting in 2013, but I remember that Kissel hosted a political show. Just looked it up, and he was still hosting it as of September of this year, with almost 750 episodes. I listened to two episodes, probably in 2014, and based on my hazy memory of that I'd call him a bizzaro left-libertarian type.

What I'm saying is, this isn't a surprise.

Also I distinctly remember there was an early episode where they made a big deal out of them being a podcast with no corporate backing, and then sometime after I'd stopped listening I learned they made a deal to host their show exclusively on Spotify.

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I listen to them but have no social media presence can you link me to something that explains what happened with Ben i have only what was said on the show

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[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

What is the next influencer face going to be for thumbnail SEO purposes? Surely the soypoint-1 soypoint-2 face can't last forever

[-] KittyBobo@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

I hope we go back to the era of smuglord fursonas.

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Apparently open mouth thumbnails aren't popular with gen z, it's closed mouth smiles or smirks or whatever now

[-] Sarcasmenul@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Oh good behaving like a normal human being is back in style now, awesome

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

yes it can, it's optimized to get clicks from children, who are simply too young to know any better

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Once again proving the most ethical podcast has always been Cumtown

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

You could have switched out that picture with several other True Crime people and I would have believed it in equal measure. Last Podcast was a comfort after working doubles and shambling home after working myself to death for shit pay in catering. The shouting, the bad jokes, the lurid stories. There's an appeal to be sure, but it really would be best if by and large all these true crime podcasts and shows just kinda dropped off entirely.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 1 year ago

The only True Crime podcast I support is "Only Murders in the Building" (it's pretty funny, watch it)

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

whoever these people are i wish them the worst

true crime parasites are fucking awful

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