SpaceCowboy , 10 months ago

I think conservatives are just generally bad at creative endeavors because they lack empathy. You need to understand the audience to be able to connect with them. Someone who lacks in empathy is going to have a tendency to not care about what they’re doing affects other people. If it’s funny to them, then it’s funny. The audience’s feelings don’t matter.

This has been exacerbated by podcasting. Used to be if a comedian bombed, there was nothing to do about it other than work on their material. Come up with some new jokes. But now a comedian bombs, they go on Joe Rogan and whine about how bad the audience is. They feel like the important people on the podcasts are their friends, while the audiences are an enemy unless they conform to what the important people define as being funny.

Conservatives have a tendency to prefer hierarchies even when they’re at the bottom of it. To them, the famous person on stage is more important than the audience. Therefore the audience is obligated to laugh at their jokes. If they don’t, there’s something wrong with the audience, not anything wrong with the jokes. Doesn’t matter if the jokes are old, doesn’t matter if culture has changed since the times when those old jokes got laughs.

You’re a bad person if you don’t consume the content that the important people make. Cancel culture!

Of course the reality is there is such a thing as creativity, connecting to the audience, understanding cultural norms that you can use them in interesting (and funny ways). But if you’re lacking in talent in these things (or just gotten lazy which is what I feel happened with Chappelle) you can always go the route of “I hate the same things you hate” then all you need to do is make something that resembles the form of something actual creative people make. Conservatives fall in line, laugh on cue, and the uncreative people make money.