When Trevor Noah blamed Spotify for imposing the curse of the mainstream on Joe Rogan
When Trevor Noah blamed Spotify for imposing the "curse of the mainstream" on Joe Rogan Notifications New User posted their first comment this is comment text Approve Reject & ban Delete Logout
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Rogan has 1,000x the average daily audience.Spotify spent $100 million on Joe Rogan.CNN spent $100 million on CNN+.Rogan has 1,000x the average daily audience. According to Noah, the decision to move to Spotify hasn't worked out too well for the color commentator. During an episode of The Daily Show, he explained that as long as the podcast was being aired on YouTube, it remained "fringe" and only those who were fans of the show would tune in. By moving it to Spotify, the podcast went mainstream and was exposed to the entire society, thereby making it more vulnerable to criticism and controversy. "Joe Rogan was fringe. He was in the corner of the world doing his own thing – with his friends, by the way, saying whatever s**t they wanted. Then the podcast got bigger, and even, like, when it was huge, it was still, like, fringe. Then Spotify came, and they were like, 'Yo, we wanna make you mainstream.' ... Now you get exposed to people who are, like, where most of society resides. And most of society has, like, rules. It’s the curse of the mainstream." He added: "If he stayed in his fringe lane, you find this would have – ’Cause these videos have come up and gone and come up, but the people – most people didn’t see it because it wasn’t in the mainstream. Do you understand what I’m saying? That’s the curse of mainstream." Watch Noah talk about Joe Rogan's podcast below:
When Trevor Noah blamed Spotify for imposing the curse of the mainstream on Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan and Trevor Noah [Noah's image via The Daily Show with Trevor Noah YouTube Rogan image via Powerful JRE on YouTube logo via newsroom.spotify.com] Trevor Noah claimed that 's podcast has been subjected to widespread controversy of late as it was moved to a mainstream platform like Spotify. Back in 2020, Rogan signed a multi-year with the Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, moving his podcast from YouTube to Spotify. Spotify spent $100 million on Joe Rogan.CNN spent $100 million on CNN+.
Rogan has 1,000x the average daily audience.Spotify spent $100 million on Joe Rogan.CNN spent $100 million on CNN+.Rogan has 1,000x the average daily audience. According to Noah, the decision to move to Spotify hasn't worked out too well for the color commentator. During an episode of The Daily Show, he explained that as long as the podcast was being aired on YouTube, it remained "fringe" and only those who were fans of the show would tune in. By moving it to Spotify, the podcast went mainstream and was exposed to the entire society, thereby making it more vulnerable to criticism and controversy. "Joe Rogan was fringe. He was in the corner of the world doing his own thing – with his friends, by the way, saying whatever s**t they wanted. Then the podcast got bigger, and even, like, when it was huge, it was still, like, fringe. Then Spotify came, and they were like, 'Yo, we wanna make you mainstream.' ... Now you get exposed to people who are, like, where most of society resides. And most of society has, like, rules. It’s the curse of the mainstream." He added: "If he stayed in his fringe lane, you find this would have – ’Cause these videos have come up and gone and come up, but the people – most people didn’t see it because it wasn’t in the mainstream. Do you understand what I’m saying? That’s the curse of mainstream." Watch Noah talk about Joe Rogan's podcast below: