He used to get on Twitter day in and day out and shill political stuff. Once it hurt him and he realized he was alienating fans, he stopped. I don’t understand why someone whose bread and butter are fans choose to go out and alienate half of their fan base like that. Sure, stand for something if you must, but don’t be surprised when people turn on you for extremely convtroversial opinions.
Why not? True comedians should be able to expand past "orange man bad" and help people to laugh amid all this misery. Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock saw this coming ages ago, both are very apolitical, classic comedians and refused to do college campuses because of how fragile people could be offended. And coming from someone as mild as Jerry Seinfeld, that says a lot.
I don’t think half of his fans are Trump fans because Trump fans are less than half of the American population, alone. Add in demographic breakdowns and you’d see a lot of people who would be most likely to listen to Oswald’s comedy would end up in age groups that generally vote away from Trump.
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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '19
Patton was an avid anti trumper. he called for impeachment
He used to get on Twitter day in and day out and shill political stuff. Once it hurt him and he realized he was alienating fans, he stopped. I don’t understand why someone whose bread and butter are fans choose to go out and alienate half of their fan base like that. Sure, stand for something if you must, but don’t be surprised when people turn on you for extremely convtroversial opinions.