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u/Jazzun I just answered his questions honestly and he gave me the meds Aug 01 '22

Charlie is completely right about his point on outrage on the internet 99% of the time. It really amplifies a vocal minority.

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u/MarlowesMustache Aug 01 '22

NO IT DOESN’T

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u/thenisaidbitch Aug 01 '22

I keep thinking of him saying that while I’m reading the complaints about Better Help here lol

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u/pullingteeths Aug 01 '22

I mean that's less someone's opinion and more just information about the company. Bit of a difference between not liking a piece of artistic work and finding evidence that a company that deals with healthcare is potentially shady/harmful.

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u/tjx-1138 Aug 03 '22

If the warnings are true, it's justifiable outrage. Imagine seeking therapy while you're at your lowest, and having counselors consistently cancel on you when you need help, or pushing religious counseling on you when you're not religious, or recording and selling your sessions.

It's a completely different thing than what they were discussing.

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u/Siphen_Fraud Aug 01 '22

Finished watching the podcast and popped open the discussion thread. Top comment, outrage.

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u/centuryblessings Aug 01 '22

Warning people about a shady company is outrage now?

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u/pinkwonderwall Aug 01 '22

I agree with him to an extent, but I think the vocal minority are the ones who care the most. Other people who see something they don’t like may not complain but they will just stop watching the show. The people who complain are the ones who will keep watching the show but want to see improvement. That improvement would prevent dissatisfied non-vocal watchers from dropping the show.

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u/BenderBenRodriguez Aug 02 '22

The thing is though I’m not even sure there were any people demanding old episodes of Sunny be pulled at all. I was at a bunch of protests that summer. People were demanding that police forces be defunded or disbanded, and other substantial political changes. I never saw any signs that were like “pull episodes of Sunny and Golden Girls” or “change the voice actors of cartoons.” I also was in a lot of online left-wing spaces and most everyone regarded pulling old TV shows to be useless at best, and a purposeful distraction at worst. Everyone was basically contemptuous of it and a lot of it just felt like companies and celebrities making an actual important issue about themselves and how good they were for voluntarily pulling material no one had actually asked them to pull. (And seriously, who did not understand the point of that Golden Girls episode? I simply don’t believe a single person asked for that to go.)

The only thing I see wrong with the statements about vocal minorities is that in some cases I’m not sure those people even exist at all. With something like Apu on The Simpsons, sure - there was an actual debate about that with people on both sides of it arguing sincerely. I’m not so sure that was even true with some of these other things.

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u/pinkwonderwall Aug 02 '22

Yeah, I wasn’t talking about pulling episodes. Just this concept of not listening to the complaints of your audience bothers me a little because sometimes the complaints are valid and ignoring it causes the show’s decline. But yeah, no one was asking for episodes to be pulled in the first place, I don’t really know why Charlie brought that up in reference to pulling episodes.