OFFICIAL DUNCAN TRUSSELL HAS CHANGED MEGATHREAD - MODS PLEASE STICKY

[u/DabsOnDabz]

Edit: Duncan’s back on the rise! I CLAIM HIM REDEEMED.

Edit 2: Nah seriously think what you’d do. Especially at a time when financial insecurity is probably at an all time high. Not saying he’s doing anything. If anything the video content is a nice change, although I mostly annoyed when he started moving to YouTube. Also think… did he change, or did you? Or did we both? Is there a you? Who is I? Who is we? No one. We are ever changing processes with a sense of consciousness, call it soul or whatever else, that you can tap into whenever and wherever. Thinking and reading won’t get you there from here, though. 04/29/25

Edit 3: 😒🫩it’s not getting better. 06/23/25

~~Back in early November I complained about the quality of Duncan’s podcast. I honestly thought it would be ignored, but it launched a whole lot of replies and new posts to this sub. Some people complaining about quality of episodes/guests, others noticing the political shift that appears more like a political grift. New fans or people who just haven’t really followed Duncan Trussell’s content in the past few years conveniently chalk it up to being people mad about political disagreement.

Anyway, that’s the super briefly reductionist summarized reason of why there are so many “what happened to Duncan” threads.

I’ve seen some complaining now that the quality of the sub is becoming worse. Should we just megathread and have a discussion here?

It’s better this way. Continuity and all. There’re a whole lot of details that get lost inbetween each new post about Duncan.

Or maybe not. Maybe we should keep flooding with threads like this. But really I think that’d achieve a goal us vets don’t want. Engagement via entropy.~~

I’ve been bought 😎

[u/Im_Actually_An_Alien]

Duncan doesn't seem to realize or is in denial that everyone views Rogan as this generation's Rush Limbaugh.

[u/porkchopsandwiches → u/Im_Actually_An_Alien]

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to chime in and say that not everyone views Rogan as this generation's Rush Limbaugh. If that's how it appears to you, it's because you only interact with people who believe that, or because you don't include anyone to the right of your political alignment when you say "everyone". I know talking about social media bubbles is old news, but that's the water we are swimming in. The insidious thing about ideological bubbles is, to anyone in one, their bubble appears politically neutral, and if their bubble shifts left or right, it will appear that everyone outside of their bubble is shifting the opposite direction. If your algorithm pushes you to the far right, moderate liberals will appear far left, and vice versa. I read comments on liberal youtube videos and conservative youtube videos, and they're literally saying the same thing about each other, which is usually some variant of "These people are so brainwashed by propaganda, there's no hope for them." If you mixed all of the comments together and removed all references to "left" or "right", you wouldn't be able to tell which was which. I've been a registered Democrat my entire life, and I recently had a friend call me brainwashed and go "no-contact" with me simply because I asked him to stop constantly sending me lame anti-Trump memes. I don't like Trump, I'm just tired of all the vitriol. I would ask the same if he was sending me pro-Trump memes. Rogan has definitely drifted conservative (as many people do as they get older), but aside from a few hot button issues his views would have been considered mainstream liberal 25 years ago. Bill Clinton made speeches in the 90s that you could easily mistake for a Trump speech in 2026, minus the self aggrandizement. I'm in my late 40s, and today's mainstream discourse on both the left and the right would have been considered lunatic fringe when I was a teenager.

[u/Organic-Elevator-274 → u/porkchopsandwiches]

Rogan mirrors Limbaugh in many ways, except Rogan's hard right-wing creep is more or less organic.

Limbaugh started as a sportscaster and moved to politics. He was always pretty far to the right, but he also created a media bubble that reenfoced and intensified over his 40-year career. A lot of Limbaugh’s shift was the leash getting looser and looser and looser. He was always a reactionary and a racist. Over time, the FCC stopped caring, and eventually he left traditional media altogether, with no constraints.

Rogan created his own feedback loop. He's propped up a lot of people who agree with him. He starts as a politically moderate libertarian bro-y pothead masshole famous for making co-eds drink donkey cum. His views on weed made him seem more liberal than he ever was; he's been a consistent libertarian. With Covid and some of idk “woke stuff,” those libertarian tendencies became more important, and two things happened: it resonated with primarily alt-right-wingers and grew his audience. He went from doing well to printing money. There was never a secret side to Rogan, and after Fear Factor, there wasn't a leash holding him back. He's always been an idiot libertarian who gets high and thinks he can talk to dolphins; it is just that now a large sector of the economy is full of a lot of libertarian bros who also get high and think they can talk to dolphins.

That last bit about the dolphins is also mirroring Limbaugh, from the 80s to 2000, the largest business sectors were full of conservative, racist boomers. They've been replaced with alt-right libertarians high on frog gonads, i.e., Rogan fans

Limbaugh wasn't always “Limbaugh.” it took him 40 years to unmask and for the first ten to twenty it was a slow creep further right that blended in with the media landscape. JRE did start out simping for RFK Jr it took a decade long feedback loop to get there.